SCH Number 2026030293

Project Info

Title

Round Mountain Landscape Resilience Project, Phase One (SNC1817)

Description

Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding to the Yuba Watershed Institute (YWI) to partner with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to implement fuels-reduction treatments on 152 acres. The purpose of the project is to establish and maintain a continuous 400-ft-wide ridgetop shaded fuel break system to reduce wildfire intensity, protect ingress/egress, and safeguard nearby communities around Nevada City and the South Yuba River canyon. Treatments on BLM lands include hand-thinning and mechanical treatments. Approximately 75 acres will be hand-thinned and chipped, with chips to be hauled off the site. Shrubs and trees would be hand-cut with chainsaws. Residual trees would be limbed up, retaining at least 1/3 of live crown. Cut material would be disposed of using a tow-behind chipper or tracked chipper. Approximately 64 acres will be mechanically masticated or hand-thinned and chipped, using a tow-behind chipper or tracked chipper with chips dispersed on site. Whenever feasible or warranted by resource concerns, equipment that minimizes ground disturbance would be used. Thirteen acres will be hand-thinned and piled for future burning. Shrubs and trees would be hand-cut with chainsaws. Residual trees would be limbed up retaining at least 1/3 of live crown. Cut material would be lopped and scattered, placed in piles and disposed of through prescribed pile burning or left as a wildlife pile.

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