SCH Number 2025040388

Project Info

Title

South Siskiyou County Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project

Description

The grant will be used to perform hazardous fuel treatments in select locations around the communities of Mt. Shasta, Dunsmuir, and McCloud. The goal of the project is to reduce the risk of wildfire within high-priority Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) areas by reducing hazardous fuels. Hazardous fuel reduction aims to reduce the continuity of fuels outside the defensible space zone in order to prevent surface fires from becoming high-intensity, high-severity crown fires. It involves reducing ladder and surface fuels as well as tree crown density by spacing trees and shrubs vertically and horizontally. The longevity of these measures is improved by increasing the height of overstory trees and allowing larger, mature trees to dominate a greater proportion of sites, thereby shading out and controlling understory fuels.? The proposed treatments include removing ground and ladder fuels, thinning trees to reduce crown closure, removing dead and dying trees, and in some areas applying herbicide to control the future regrowth of unwanted vegetation and maintain an understory canopy without fire-prone fuels. Treatment will focus on reducing vertical and horizontal continuity of fuels; removing competition from small, closely spaced, fire-vulnerable species; and promoting a smaller number of resilient larger trees. Generally, larger living trees will be spaced to a distance of greater than 30 feet.

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