SCH Number 2025120572

Project Info

Title

Goat Mountain Fuel Break Reconstruction (SNC1824)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding for the Eastern Madera County Fire Safe Council to partner with the United States Forest Service, Sierra National Forest, to reconstruct a 4.7-mile-long, east-west fuel break on Sierra National Forest lands, just south of Bass Lake. The Goat Mountain Fuel Break Reconstruction project will complete the Goat Mountain section of the Joint Chiefs’ Fuel Break, connecting with the eastern end of the Thornberry Fuel Break. Combined with the neighboring Thornberry Fuel Break, there will be a 10-mile stretch of contiguous fuel break within the fuel-break network. Treatments used will include hand treatments, mechanical treatments, and pile burning over approximately 300 acres. All work will be completed compliant with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Categorical Exclusion Decision Memo for the Joint Chiefs’ Fuel Break Project signed in September 2019. The fuel break will help protect the communities of Oakhurst, Bass Lake, Coarsegold, North Fork, and the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians. This is a priority project under the Madera County Local Hazard Mitigation Plan, as well as the Madera County Community Wildfire Protection plan.

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