Plumas Community Resilience Project (SNC1822)
Summary
SCH Number
2026030295
Public Agency
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Document Title
Plumas Community Resilience Project (SNC1822)
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
3/6/2026
Document Description
Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding to the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment to partner with Plumas National Forest, Feather River Resource Conservation District, and University of California, Berkeley Forestry Field Camp to implement fuels reduction treatments in two locations in Plumas County. At Oakland Feather River Camp, a historic recreational facility located on Plumas National Forest land, partners will implement fuels-reduction treatments on 68 acres. Treatments will be manual fuels reduction thinning, using chainsaws to cut and human power to pile or scatter. Treatments would include felling trees, lopping and scattering and/or piling and later burning, or chipping. Hand-thinning would be used on trees up to 16” DBH but trees over 10” DBH would only rarely be cut, and harvesting would not occur. The treatment area focuses on a ¼ mile stretch of fuels treatment between the Union Pacific railroad track and Oakland Feather River Camp Road. This dead-end road is the only access to the camp facilities, and fuels-reduction treatments will protect this ingress/egress route. This project also contributes to broader fuel-break efforts surrounding Quincy and ensuring the longevity of a site that has connected over 200,000 East Bay residents to the Sierra since 1924. At the University of California, Berkeley Forestry Field Camp, partners will conduct hand-thinning on three acres of Plumas National Forest land between Schnider Creek and an access road to the Camp. This work will reduce fire-ignition risk along the roadway, protect an ingress/egress route, and complement an additional 65 acres of fuels treatments on adjacent land owned by the university. All work will be done consistent with Standard Operating Procedures and Protective Measures specified in the Plumas National Forest NEPA Decisions authorizing the project activities.
Contact Information
Name
Mary Akens
Agency Name
Sierra Nevada Conservancy
Job Title
General Counsel
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Name
Kyle Rodgers
Agency Name
Sierra Institute for Community and Environment
Job Title
Assistant Director
Contact Types
Project Applicant / Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Location
Cities
near Quincy Junction
Counties
Plumas
Regions
Northern California
Other Location Info
Two locations within Plumas National Forest. 1) Oakland Feather River Camp, along Oakland Camp Road. Approximately 1.6 miles north of Quincy Junction. Treatment center at approximately -120.918, 39.991 degrees. 2) University of California, Berkeley Forestry Field Camp, approximately 1 mile south of the community of Meadow Valley, between Schnider Creek Road and National Forest Road 24N31. Treatment center at approximately -121.064, 39.918 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 Sierra Institute for Community and Environment to partner with Plumas National Forest to conduct fuels-reduction treatments on National Forest lands. The project was reviewed in its entirety in the Plumas National Forest North Quincy Wildfire Resiliency Project Environmental Assessment, with the North Quincy Wildfire Resiliency Project Decision Notice signed on August 14, 2024, and the Claremont Forest Resiliency Project Environmental Assessment with Decision Notice signed on April 7, 2023.
County Clerk
Plumas
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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