SCH Number 2026030292

Project Info

Title

Mount Crossman Community Fuel Break (SNC1827)

Description

Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding to the Amador Fire Safe Council (AFSC) to create an approximately 85 acre, 1.4mi, 400- to 500 foot-wide shaded fuel break on the Mount Crossman ridge just north of the community of Buckhorn. The objective of the project is to create a shaded fuel break to protect habitable structures directly adjacent to the fuel break from catastrophic fire, protect the communities of Buckhorn and Pioneer, and protect water quality in the Mokelumne River watershed. The project area vegetation composition is made up primarily of ponderosa pines, California black oak, canyon live oak, and Pacific madrone. There is a strong understory dominated by white leaf manzanita. Treatment consists of a mix of mechanical mastication, where slope permits, and hand-thinning on steeper areas and closer to streams. Trees throughout the entire project will be pruned to raise the canopy. A secondary treatment of targeted herbicide application will be applied, once the mechanical thinning has been completed to delay regrowth of sprouting species (e.g., oaks and madrone).

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