SCH Number 2022060103

Project Info

Title

Cohasset Forest Resilience Project – SNC 1378

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy will provide funding to implement forest resilience thinning for watershed health and community safety on approximately 741 acres of fuels within the community of Cohasset and adjacent Musty Buck Ridge. The project will implement forest resilience thinning on overstocked stands to achieve 70 percent canopy cover. Mastication, hand cutting, and chipping would be the primary vegetation treatment and biomass disposal methods that would be used to implement the project. Woody biomass that is hand cut and chipped would be returned to the forest floor to benefit carbon sequestration and soil productivity. Hand cutting and pile burning would be utilized on approximately 32 acres where mastication and chipping would not be feasible. Grazing (i.e., prescribed herbivory) and prescribed fire (i.e., broadcast burning) would be used as a maintenance tool in limited and strategic locations where initial forest thinning work has already been completed. Grazing would occur on approximately 16 acres and broadcast burning would be used on approximately 28 acres of the project area. Project implementation is anticipated to begin in January 2023 and be complete by December 2025.

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