SCH Number 2026030286

Project Info

Title

Fresno County Wildfire Defense Accelerator: Operational Fuel Break Project (SNC1839)

Description

Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding to Sierra Resource Conservation District to partner with Sierra National Forest to complete construction on strategic fuel breaks through pile burning and prescribed fire on a minimum of 1,000 acres, and a maximum of 5,000 acres. The project is located entirely on the Sierra National Forest, High Sierra Ranger District. There are five critical fuel breaks on which vegetation treatments have occurred to construct the fuel breaks, but there are now fuel piles left to be burned – the last activity needed to complete the fuel breaks. Sierra National Forest Fuels and Fire Management staff, as well as the Sierra Resource Conservation District Alignment Strategies Group Fire Crew, will conduct burn activities consistent with all National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) requirements and state and local regulations. The project will start working in the highest priority fuel breaks of Vincent and Swanson, and then proceed into the second priority fuel breaks as conditions allow. The communities that will directly benefit from the project’s pile burning and prescribed fire accomplishments include Shaver Lake and the greater area subdivisions, Cressman’s, Peterson Road, Huntington Lake, Tamarack Ridge, Big Creek, Camp Sierra, Dinkey and 13 Firewise Communities of Shaver West, Shaver East, Ockenden, Sierra Cedars, Quartz Mountain, Bretz Mill, Peterson Road/Shaver Springs, Pineridge, Bald Mountain, Dinkey Creek, Courtright, Huntington Lake, and Camp Sierra.

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