Claremont Forest Resiliency Project Amendment 1 (SNC 1632.1)
2 Documents in Project
Summary
SCH Number
2024030336
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Claremont Forest Resiliency Project Amendment 1 (SNC 1632.1)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
7/21/2025
Document Description
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) is amending grant agreement #1632, Claremont Forest Resiliency Project (Proposed Project) with the Mule Deer Foundation (MDF) to allow funds to be used for an additional 83 acres of fuels reduction treatments. In March 2024 the SNC awarded the grant to MDF to partner with the PNF to protect communities and wildlife habitat by implementing an approximately 950-acre fuels reduction project that included four separate strategically placed treatment units on PNF land. Treatments included but were not limited to mechanical thinning (including mastication), hand thinning, and piling, following a variable density thinning approach. The project is part of the PNF’s 30,000-acre landscape-scale Claremont Forest Resiliency Project, and SNC filed a Notice of Exemption pursuant to Pub. Resources Code, section 4799.05, subd. (d)(1) (SCH 2024030336). This amendment would authorize grant funds to be used for an additional 83 acres of mastication or other treatments in one of the four units. All treatments will be implemented per the PNF Claremont Forest Resiliency Project Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impacts signed on April 7, 2023.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
General Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Chris Daunt
Agency Name
Mule Deer Foundation
Job Title
Conservation Forester
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
1.5 mi E of Quincy
Counties
Plumas
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Approximately 83 acres in Plumas National Forest, Mount Hough Ranger District, approximately 1.5 miles southeast of downtown Quincy, in an area commonly known as Peppard Flat, in the Feather River watershed. Project center at approximately -120.864, 39.904 degrees.
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 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) if the primary role of a state or local agency is providing funding or staffing for those projects. The SNC is amending the grant agreement to authorize SNC funding to be used for additional fuels reduction and forest-health treatments in the PNF. The project was reviewed in its entirety under NEPA in the PNF Claremont Forest Resiliency Project Environmental Assessment and Finding of No Significant Impacts, with final Decision Notice for the EA/FONSI documents signed on April 7, 2023.
County Clerk
Plumas
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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