SCH Number 2025051369

Project Info

Title

NW Calaveras Fuel Reduction Project

Description

The NW Calaveras Fuel Reduction Project will occur on private lands within the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) communities of Rancho Calaveras, Quail Oaks Road, and surrounding neighborhoods. The Project area is oriented north and west of the Valley Springs subdivision Rancho Calaveras and south of California Highway 12 and is situated diagonally SW to NE toward the intersection of State Highways 12 and 26. The Project area is comprised of 357 private parcels totaling approximately 3,080 acres. CCRCD has obligated grant funding through CAL FIRE (Grant Agreement 5GA22228) to treat approximately 470 acres mechanically and by hand, anticipated for fall 2025 implementation. At the time of publication of this document, ROE was obtained from 146 parcels, with approximately 391 acres identified for a combination of mechanical and hand treatments (anticipated in fall 2025). Treatments will reduce heavy vegetative fuels, increase tree canopy spacing, and cut dead trees which present a hazard to infrastructure. Proposed treatment methods include the following: mastication, hand cutting and piling, hand cutting and lopping/scattering, hand cutting and chipping (broadcast or chip/haul), prescribed fire (broadcast or pile burning), and prescribed herbivore grazing.

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