SCH Number 2025020740

Project Info

Title

Salmon and Packer Creek Aspen Restoration Project

Description

The 292-acre Project consists of restoring aspen stands, promoting forest health, and restoring meadow and meadow edge habitat through conifer thinning activities and the installation of beaver dam analogs (BDAs). Approximately 190 acres within the Project area are designated for conifer thinning activities with the aim of promoting aspen regeneration. Thinning will include the removal of selected trees and the piling of removed trees in preparation for future prescribed burning to be led by the Tahoe National Forest at a later date. Thinning will be done both by hand and with the use of heavy equipment such as feller bunchers, loaders, and chippers. In Salmon Creek Meadow, approximately 15 BDAs will be constructed. The BDAs will be spaced as necessary along the length of stream channels to optimize sediment accretion, channel complexity, and aggradation. BDA structures are expected to enhance the existing 15 acres of wetland habitat, resulting in a net increase in wetland functions and services within the Project area.

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