Forest Projects Plan Phase One-B Amendment
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2024030335
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Forest Projects Plan Phase One-B Amendment
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
7/30/2025
Document Description
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) is amending grant agreement #1636 with the Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority for the Forest Projects Plan Phase One-B project, to authorize the use of grant funds on an additional approximately 1,456 acres of fuel reduction treatments along State Highway 88 in Amador County. Treatments include but are not limited to mastication and hand treatments, including some work around Aspen stands. The project is part of the larger landscape-scale 25,671-acre ENF Forest Projects Plan Phase One project, a timber stand and wildlife-habitat improvement and protection project designed to help prevent high-intensity, larger scale wildfires, improve forest conditions, and protect important wildlife habitat and other resources. Phase One consists of non-commercial actions to reduce forest ladder fuels and implement other forest-management activities on the Amador Ranger District. The amendment activities have been analyzed under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). All work would be implemented under a partnership between the Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority and Eldorado National Forest, consistent with NEPA documents governing the activities. In March of 2024 the SNC awarded a grant to the Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority to implement project #1636, Forest Projects Plan Phase One-B. The project involved fuels reduction activities which had been analyzed under NEPA, and SNC filed a Notices of Exemption pursuant to Public Resources Code 4799.05(d)(1) under SCH 2024030335.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
General Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Karen Quidachay
Agency Name
Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority
Job Title
Program Director
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Location
Cities
Approximately 6 miles southwest of Kirkwood
Counties
Amador
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Eldorado National Forest, Amador Ranger District. Along both sides of State Highway 88, between the Dufrene Rd intersection and the Tragedy Springs Rd intersection.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Pub. Resources Code, section 4799.05, subd. (d)(1)
Reasons for Exemption
Public Resources Code, section 4799.05 statutorily exempts from CEQA projects for prescribed fire, reforestation, habitat restoration, thinning, or fuel-reduction projects, or to related activities included in the project description, undertaken, in whole or in part, on federal lands to reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire that have been reviewed under the NEPA if the primary role of a state or local agency is providing funding or staffing for those projects. The SNC is providing funding to the UMRWA to conduct fuels reduction and forest-health treatments in the ENF. The Project was reviewed in its entirety under NEPA in the ENF Projects Plan Phase One Decision Notice signed on November 23, 2022.
County Clerk
Amador
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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