Sly Park Fuels Reduction Project (SNC1830)
Summary
SCH Number
2026030291
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Sly Park Fuels Reduction Project (SNC1830)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/6/2026
Document Description
Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) is providing funding to the El Dorado Resource Conservation District (RCD) to partner with Eldorado National Forest (ENF) to conduct approximately 377 acres of fuels-reduction treatments near the communities of Cedar Grove, Camino, Pollock Pines, and Pleasant Valley in El Dorado County. Forests in the project area currently have an abundance of dense smaller trees, thick undergrowth, and a high density of surface fuels. These fuel conditions create a higher potential for severe, stand-replacing wildfire, which poses a significant threat to the safety of nearby communities and infrastructure. This project will complete 377 acres of strategically placed fuel-reduction treatments that complement and extend the continuity of existing treatments to create a fire-resistant landscape. This will be accomplished by a combination of treatment types, including thinning, chipping/mastication of brush and smaller trees, and hand treatments including brush cutting, hand-thinning, and pruning. The treatments will reduce tree density in selected stands and change the structure of live and dead vegetative material to lower tree density and reduce understory ladder and surface fuels.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
General Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Mark Egbert
Agency Name
El Dorado Resource Conservation District
Job Title
District Manager
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
near Cedar Grove
Counties
El Dorado
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Eldorado National Forest, Placerville Ranger District, near the communities of Camino, Cedar Grove, and Pollock Pines in El Dorado County. The project is located directly south of US Highway 50, adjacent to the community of Cedar Grove. Project center at approximately -120.633, 38,735 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 has authorized/approved the use of the funding for the RCD to work in partnership with the ENF to conduct fuels-reduction treatments on national forest lands. The project was reviewed in its entirety under NEPA by the ENF in the Decision Memo for the Sly Park Fuels Reduction Project Categorical Exclusion, signed on June 1, 2020.
County Clerk
El Dorado
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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