SCH Number 2023060180

Project Info

Title

Sarah Priest Fuels Reduction Project (SNC #1544)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy would provide funding for the American Indian Council of Mariposa County to partner with the US Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to treat 160 acres of forestland and chapparal to reduce fire risk and intensity across the Sarah Priest Tribal Allotment. The Allotment is owned and managed by the BIA. Treatments will consist of hand thinning, pruning, brushing, mechanical mastication, and dead/dying and hazard-tree felling. Hand thinning will occur throughout most of the project boundary and will significantly reduce ladder fuels and open the overstory canopy to approximately 50%. Most dead and dying trees will be felled, with some snags remaining for wildlife habitat. All hazard trees hanging over roadways or homes will be removed by professional arborists, where necessary to ensure public safety. Trees will be bucked and left for residents to use for firewood. All slash will be chipped and spread or piled and burned. This project will help protect the residents of the Sarah Priest Allotment from catastrophic wildfires and will improve firefighter access and resident evacuation.

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