SCH Number 2023030183

Project Info

Title

Medicine Lake Volcano Forest and Fire Restoration (SNC1536)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy would provide funding for the Pit Resource Conservation District to partner with Modoc National Forest (MNF) to improve forest resilience by increasing spatial and age-class heterogeneity within and among lodgepole pine-dominated stands. Most of the lodgepole pine stands within the Project are overly dense and highly susceptible to mountain pine beetle (MPB). The overall Project goal is to reduce the likelihood of a widespread MPB outbreak and tree mortality that could lead to a stand-replacing fire. The Project will mechanically thin approximately 4,100 acres. Within these acres of thinning, fuelbreaks will be developed on approximately 350 acres, and surface fuels will be reduced on approximately 200 acres. The Project will protect the entire Medicine Lake caldera, a culturally important landscape to the Pit River Tribes, Klamath Tribes and Modoc Nation, as well as Forest Service recreational infrastructure.

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