SCH Number 2026030295

Project Info

Title

Plumas Community Resilience Project (SNC1822)

Description

Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding to the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment to partner with Plumas National Forest, Feather River Resource Conservation District, and University of California, Berkeley Forestry Field Camp to implement fuels reduction treatments in two locations in Plumas County. At Oakland Feather River Camp, a historic recreational facility located on Plumas National Forest land, partners will implement fuels-reduction treatments on 68 acres. Treatments will be manual fuels reduction thinning, using chainsaws to cut and human power to pile or scatter. Treatments would include felling trees, lopping and scattering and/or piling and later burning, or chipping. Hand-thinning would be used on trees up to 16” DBH but trees over 10” DBH would only rarely be cut, and harvesting would not occur. The treatment area focuses on a ¼ mile stretch of fuels treatment between the Union Pacific railroad track and Oakland Feather River Camp Road. This dead-end road is the only access to the camp facilities, and fuels-reduction treatments will protect this ingress/egress route. This project also contributes to broader fuel-break efforts surrounding Quincy and ensuring the longevity of a site that has connected over 200,000 East Bay residents to the Sierra since 1924. At the University of California, Berkeley Forestry Field Camp, partners will conduct hand-thinning on three acres of Plumas National Forest land between Schnider Creek and an access road to the Camp. This work will reduce fire-ignition risk along the roadway, protect an ingress/egress route, and complement an additional 65 acres of fuels treatments on adjacent land owned by the university. All work will be done consistent with Standard Operating Procedures and Protective Measures specified in the Plumas National Forest NEPA Decisions authorizing the project activities.

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