SCH Number 2024030330

Project Info

Title

Taylorsville Community Defense Zone Implementation (SNC 1647)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) is funding the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment (SI) to implement the #1647 Taylorsville Community Defense Zone (TCDZ) Implementation project located in Plumas County within and adjacent to the community of Taylorsville. The SI will work with the private landowners to implement forest thinning and fuels reduction for a strategic shaded fuel break on the south side of the community of Taylorsville. Treatments will reduce the risk to the community during future wildfire events by creating a stand structure intended to moderate fire behavior and provide safe and effective opportunities for fire-suppression actions. The project will cut and remove trees to eliminate the vertical continuity of vegetative fuels and the horizontal continuity of tree crowns for the purpose of reducing flammable materials to reduce fire spread, duration, intensity, and ignition of tree crowns. Planned treatments include hand thinning and mechanical treatments across the approximately 300-acre footprint that will create conditions with low basal area and bulk crown density, low volumes of ladder fuels, discontinuous fuel beds, and a heterogenous, fire-resilient stand structure. The TCDZ will directly protect approximately 88 homes and 140 residents and increase the resilience of a critical portion of remaining green forest in Indian Valley, following the 2021 Dixie Fire.

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