SCH Number 2024090025

Project Info

Title

Big Chico Creek Forest Resilience Project Amendment (SNC1341.2)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would amend grant agreement #1341 with the Butte County Fire Safe Council (BCFSC) to allow the grant funds to be used for the treatment of hazard trees caused by the Park Fire. In July 2024 the Park Fire burned through the project area. The BCFSC and partners determined that an immediate postfire need was to remove hazard trees and implement erosion control features to protect salmon habitat from excessive post-fire runoff and sedimentation. SNC grant funds would be used for treatment of the hazard trees including treatments originally contained within the project scope, which may include hand thinning, directional felling, bucking, piling, pile burning, mastication, chipping, and grazing to reduce future fire intensity and prevent significant erosion impacts in the Big Chico Creek Watershed. SNC funds will not be used for any instream work.

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