Kilgore Fuel Reduction Project
Summary
SCH Number
2025091055
Public Agency
Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District
Document Title
Kilgore Fuel Reduction Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
9/23/2025
Document Description
Treatment activities will include manual and mechanical treatments to reduce hazardous fuels consisting of over-dense, dead, dying, and diseased shrubs and trees. The Project will enhance the existing oak habitats by removing competing vegetation, and modifying the vegetative composition promote more diverse habitat types and forage opportunities. Treatments are designed and planned to reintroduce prescribed broadcast fire onto the landscape. Manual treatments will include cutting, pruning, chipping, piling, pile burning, prescribed broadcast burning, and herbicide application. Mechanical treatments will include mastication and piling with a track style skid steer, and mastication and piling with an excavator. Other mechanical treatments will include machine piling of vegetation and installation of prescribed fire control lines with a dozer and 6-way blade to remove vegetative material and expose mineral soil with minimal disturbance or displacement of soil. Erosion control structures may be installed where necessary in treatment areas and on access roads with manual or mechanical methods.
Vegetation to be removed consists primarily of dense buckbrush (Ceanothus cuneatus), Mountain mahogany (Cercocarpus betuloides), Whiteleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos viscida) , and Greenleaf manzanita (Arctostaphylos patula). Trees less than 8 inches diameter at breast height (dbh), snags which do not contain cavities, and dying or diseased trees will also be removed. Tree species within the project area consist primarily of Oregon White oak (Quercus garryana), Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), and Western juniper (Juniperus occidentalis). Material generated by treatment activities will be piled and burned or chipped. Prescribed broadcast burns will be implemented following initial treatments.
Contact Information
Name
Renee Main
Agency Name
Shasta Valley RCD
Job Title
Project Coordinator
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Name
Dan Blessing
Agency Name
Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District
Job Title
Project Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Name
Rod Dowse
Agency Name
Shasta Valley Resource Conservation District
Job Title
District Manager
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Yreka
Counties
Siskiyou
Regions
Unincorporated
Township
44N
Range
7W
Section
1 & 2
Other Location Info
T44N R6W Section 6
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Class 4; 15304 (e) Minor Alterations to Land
Reasons for Exemption
This project fits under Class 4, §15304, Minor Alterations of Land, Categorical Exemption to CEQA. Field review by CAL FIRE staff confirmed that no exceptions apply that would preclude the use of a notice of exemption for this project. The Department has concluded that no significant environmental impact would occur to aesthetics, agriculture and forestland/timberland, air quality, biological resources, cultural resources, energy, geology and soils, greenhouse gas emissions, hazards and hazardous materials, hydrology and water quality, land use planning, mineral resources, noise, populations and housing, public services, recreation, transportation/ traffic, utilities and service systems, or to wildfire. This project as proposed is not expected to result in a significant impact on the environment. Documentation of the environmental review is kept on file at Shasta Valley RCD, 215 Executive Court, Suite A, Yreka, CA 96097 – Attention Dan Blessing
County Clerk
Siskiyou
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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