Mosquito Wildfire Resilience Project
Summary
SCH Number
2026090929
Public Agency
Placer County Water Agency
Document Title
Mosquito Wildfire Resilience Project
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
9/22/2026
Document Description
The Mosquito Wildfire Resilience Project proposes activities to directly address post-fire conditions associated with the Mosquito Fire and other activities to manage vegetation and reduce fuel loading within the fire footprint and surrounding area. Treatments would reduce hazardous fuel levels, remove dead and dying trees in accessible areas, regenerate tree cover, develop shaded fuel breaks and conduct maintenance on existing fuel breaks, treat invasive plant species, and perform roadwork and culvert replacement on NFS lands in portions of the Georgetown Ranger District of the Eldorado National Forest. These actions align with the 1989 Eldorado National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (hereafter Eldorado Forest Plan), as amended by the 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment and the 2007 Sierra Nevada Forests Management Indicator Species Amendment (forest plan; USDA Forest Service 1989a and b, 2004b, and 2007).
The proposed action would use a combination of vegetation management treatments. Post-fire recovery planning includes consideration of priority treatment areas (totaling 6,295 acres), as well as conditions-based treatments intended to address needs of the larger post-fire landscape over the long term. Priority treatments are expected to be implemented in the first five years of the project. The conditions-based treatments will occur approximately within the subsequent 15 to 20 years, as needed to return ecosystems to desired conditions or moderate hazardous site conditions. All project activities will apply National Best Management Practices (USDA Forest Service 2012) and design features found in the final Environmental Assessment at the link referenced below. https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/eldorado/projects/66l60
Contact Information
Name
Darin Reintjes
Agency Name
Placer County Water Agency
Job Title
Director of Resource Development
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Address
Phone
Email
Name
Dana Walsh
Agency Name
Eldorado National Forest
Job Title
District Ranger
Contact Types
Parties Undertaking Project
Phone
Email
Name
Darin Reintjes
Agency Name
Placer County Water Agency
Job Title
Director of Resource Management
Contact Types
Parties Undertaking Project
Address
Phone
Email
Location
Cities
unincorporated area south of Mosquito Ridge
Counties
El Dorado, Placer
Regions
Northern California, Unincorporated
Other Location Info
The project area is located south of Mosquito Ridge from the Middle Fork of the American River to the Georgetown Divide, including the following legal land locations in all or portions of the listed sections:
T. 12 N., R. 11 E., sections 1, 5; T. 12 N., R. 12 E., Sections I through 12; T. 12N., R. 13E., Sections 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9; T. 13N., R. 1OE., Sections 1 11, 12 through 16, 22, thorough 28; T. 13N., R. I IE., Sections 1 through 36; T. 13N., R. 12E., Sections 1 through 36; T. 13N., R. 13E., Sections 1 through 10, 13, 14, 16 through 35, T. 13N., R. 14E., Sections 17 through 22, 27 through 30; T. 14N., R. I IE., Sections 35, 36 T. 14N., R. 12E., Sections 20-21, 25, 26, 27, 28, 31 through 36; T. 14N., R, 13E., Sections 1, 2, 10 through 12, 13 through 15, 20 through 36; T. 14N., R. 14E., Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 29, 30, 31., Mount Diablo Meridian.
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Statutory Exemption
Type, Section or Code
PRC Section 4799.05(d)
Reasons for Exemption
CEQA Statutory Exemption (PRC Section 4799.05(d)) as extended by Assembly Bill
No. 211 (September 27, 2022): This bill, as extended, provides that, until January 1, 2028, under specified conditions, CEQA would not apply to prescribed fire, thinning, or fuel reduction projects undertaken on federal lands to reduce the risk of high severity wildfire that have been reviewed under the federal National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. Additionally, post-thinning herbicide, post-planted stand treatment herbicide, and post-mastication herbicide qualify as habitat restoration, thinning, or fuel reduction under 4799.05(d) as these are related activities. The proposed project was reviewed in its entirety under the following Eldorado National Forest NEPA documents available at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/eldorado/projects/66160
County Clerks
El Dorado, Placer
Attachments
Notice of Exemption
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