SCH Number 2024030334

Project Info

Title

Parker Peak Forest Restoration and Resilience Project (SNC 1639)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding to the Tule River Indian Tribe to work in partnership with the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to implement project #1639 Parker Peak Forest Restoration and Resilience Project (Project). The Project is an approximately 1,500-acre hazardous fuel reduction and wildfire-recovery project on the Tule River Indian Reservation in Tulare County. The Project is planned entirely on tribal trust lands administered by the Tule River Tribal Council through the Tribal Natural Resources Department, with oversight provided by the BIA. The Project focuses on improving forest health and hydrologic function by reducing hazardous fuels, conducting restoration, and stabilizing burn scars caused by the 2021 Windy Fire. The 2021 Windy Fire burned over 97,000 acres, including over 19,000 acres of the Tule River Indian Reservation, resulting in widespread tree mortality and erosion. The Project is aimed at restoring areas that burned, and treating areas that burned at low intensity so they will be more resilient to future fires. Activities under the Project include, but are not limited to: pre-implementation surveys and delineation; manual and mechanical thinning/mastication; and off-hauling of biomass, as feasible.

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