North Feather I Forest Resilience Bond Investment Pilot (SNC980-DWR)
Summary
SCH Number
2025120038
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
North Feather I Forest Resilience Bond Investment Pilot (SNC980-DWR)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
12/2/2025
Document Description
The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) will provide funding to Blue Forest Finance, LLC (a 501(c)(3)) to work with Plumas National Forest (PNF) and other partners to implement forest restoration work on approximately 2,000 acres on PNF lands as part of the larger PNF North Fork Forest Recovery Project. The purpose of the Project is to accelerate implementation of fuels management, wildfire risk reduction, and forest restoration activities within the Feather River watershed. Planned treatments include but are not limited to hand and mechanical thinning, hazard removal, pile burning, prescribed fire, site preparation and reforestation. All activities will be implemented consistent with the North Fork Forest Recovery Project Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact signed on June 23, 2025, limited to approved locations, conditions, methods, design features, and protective measures. Details of these requirements are found in the North Fork Forest Recovery Project Final Environmental Assessment, including Appendices.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
General Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Marta Prat Guitart
Agency Name
Blue Forest Finance, Inc.
Job Title
Science Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
Greenville, Crescent Mills, Taylorsville
Counties
Plumas
Regions
Northern California
Other Information
Plumas National Forest lands across the landscape of the Upper Feather River Watershed in Plumas County, around Indian Valley. Vegetation treatments near the towns of Greenville, Crescent Mills, Moccasin, Taylorsville, and approximately 4 miles northeast of the valley center.
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 Sierra Nevada Conservancy has funded a grant to Blue Forest Finance to work with Plumas National Forest to implement forest restoration activities on National Forest lands around Indian Valley, as part of the larger Plumas National Forest’s North Fork Forest Recovery Project. The Project was reviewed in its entirety under NEPA by Plumas National Forest in the North Fork Forest Recovery Project Environmental Assessment and Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact signed by the Forest Supervisor on June 23, 2025.
County Clerk
Plumas
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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