SCH Number 2026030291

Project Info

Title

Sly Park Fuels Reduction Project (SNC1830)

Description

Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) is providing funding to the El Dorado Resource Conservation District (RCD) to partner with Eldorado National Forest (ENF) to conduct approximately 377 acres of fuels-reduction treatments near the communities of Cedar Grove, Camino, Pollock Pines, and Pleasant Valley in El Dorado County. Forests in the project area currently have an abundance of dense smaller trees, thick undergrowth, and a high density of surface fuels. These fuel conditions create a higher potential for severe, stand-replacing wildfire, which poses a significant threat to the safety of nearby communities and infrastructure. This project will complete 377 acres of strategically placed fuel-reduction treatments that complement and extend the continuity of existing treatments to create a fire-resistant landscape. This will be accomplished by a combination of treatment types, including thinning, chipping/mastication of brush and smaller trees, and hand treatments including brush cutting, hand-thinning, and pruning. The treatments will reduce tree density in selected stands and change the structure of live and dead vegetative material to lower tree density and reduce understory ladder and surface fuels.

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