SCH Number 2025050810

Project Info

Title

Calforests Disaster Recovery of Private Land – Collins Company – Dixie Fire

Description

CAL FIRE would provide funding to expedite priority restoration measures in high severity burn areas on approximately 7,200 acres of privately owned timberland owned and managed by the Collins Company within proximity to the community of Chester, California. Funding supports the broader goal of post fire recovery and forest health and resiliency. CAL FIRE funding, as it relates to ground treatments, will focus on site preparation: mastication, tree removal (cut, skid, and pile to burn) control of competing vegetation, tree planting, and post planting vegetation control. The project supports a local workforce within a census designated priority population. In addition to the short-term benefit of restoring and reforesting severely burned forested acres, implementation of the project would promote resilience in the natural ecosystem services, such as overall watershed improvements through improved regulation of surface runoff and groundwater infiltration, increased uptake of carbon dioxide, provide for slope stabilization, and restoration of lost forest-based habitat for species that rely upon these environments.

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