SCH Number 2023030185

Project Info

Title

Improving Landscape and Watershed Health through Restoring Fire Regimes in Lassen Volcanic National Park: Phase Three (SNC1551)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy would provide funding for the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment to partner with Lassen Volcanic National Park (LVNP) to complete approximately 600 acres of forest thinning and construct about five miles of fire line in wilderness lands to enable reintroduction of prescribed fire to approximately 1,800 acres. All work will be done by hand, with a wilderness sawyer crew equipped with traditional non-mechanized tools. The Project is in the wilderness headwaters of Battle Creek and the Pit River and is the next phase in a strategic landscape-scale fuels management strategy to restore low- to moderate-severity fire regimes throughout LVNP. Preparation of these fire management units in the Project area, and the following introduction of fire, will provide park managers with a critical buffer around Manzanita Lake and park infrastructure in one of the highest visitor use areas, and increase the resilience of California Spotted Owl habitat. The project will also reduce the risk of wildfire spreading from the wilderness to adjacent rural communities of Shasta County, including Shingletown, Old Station, and others along the Highway 44 corridor.

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