Transcript From Fire-kill to Fuelbreaks Project Power Point

Trinity County
Collaborative Group
teams up with the Six
Rivers National Forest
Two Chiefs' Joint
Landscape Restoration
Partnership
Trinity Community
Protection and
Landscape Restoration
Project
Trinity Community Protection and
Landscape Restoration Project
Addresses the following components:
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Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy goals
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USFS Region 5 Ecological Restoration Intent
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Trinity County Community Wildfire Protection Plan
Establish and maintain priority fuel breaks along
linear landscape features including priority roads
and ridgetops to facilitate safe evacuation,
firefighter access, and landscape fire
management across the Mad River Ranger
District (744 roadway miles)
Lightening strikes ignite forest fires in summer 2015
Post-fire Strategy
Phased planning – triage approach
Focal Area: Within Lassics and Pickett Fire perimeters
Phase 1. From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project (dead tree only,
up to 250 acres)
Decision no later than June 2016
Phase 2. Tentative - From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project (II)
(dead tree only, up to 250 acres)
Decision no later than July 2016
Focal Area: District Scale
Phase 3. Trinity Community Protection and Landscape
Restoration Project (includes live trees)
Decision 2017 (Funding dependent)
On November 18,
2015, Six Rivers
National Forest
staff and
members of
TCCG subgroup
visited areas
burned by
wildfire to discuss
management
treatments.
From Fire kill to Fuelbreak treatment methods:
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Harvest fire-killed dead trees (no green foliage at time of harvest)
on both sides of open public roads - would not exceed 300 ft.
width (not including the width of the road, shoulder to shoulder)
Minimum width either side of the road would be 25 feet
Ground-based logging systems
No new roads or temporary roads
Forest Service identifies potential treatment areas
Forest Service excludes treatments within the Lassics wilderness
Forest Service excludes treatments within Inventoried Roadless Area
Forest Service excludes treatments within Special Interest Area
Forest Service identifies treatments defining the proposed action
Forest Service proposed treatments within the Lassics Fire perimeter
Forest Service proposed treatments within the Pickett Fire perimeter
Next steps
Phase 1. From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project CE – continue
surveys once snowfall melts, analysis and preparation of
reports
Phase 2. Tentative - From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project CE II
– continue field review to identify potential treatment areas
once snowfall melts
Phase 3. Trinity Community Protection and Landscape
Restoration Project EA – begin project development,
surveys once snowfall melts and analysis
Questions?
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Contact Carol Spinos (Six Rivers NF Environmental
Planner) if you want to know more about the
planning process or have comments about the
From Fire kill to Fuelbreaks Project:
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601 5852
 [email protected]
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