California - Stewardship Contracting Projects

Forest Service

• Rush 1 Stewardship Project, Modoc National Forest
  The Rush 1 project's objectives are to reduce fuel in the wildland urban interface and critical wildlife habitat. This project will treat approximately 3,500 acres.
• Hyampon Fuels Project , Shasta-Trinity National Forest
  This project's objective is ecosystem restoration of approximately 360 acres within the Hyampon Fire Area.
• Power 1 Fuels Reduction Project, Sierra National Forest
  The Power 1 Project will treat approximately 331 acres in the threat and defense zones of the wildland urban interface.
• Treeage Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The purpose of the Treeage Fuels Reduction Project is to reduce surface and ladder fuels in the threat and defense zones of the wildland urban interface. This project will treat approximately 974 acres.
• Post Mountain, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
  The Post Mountain Project will provide for: forest restoration, increased fire safety, improved wildlife habitat, and local social and economic benefits. This project will encompass approximately 3,000 acres.
• Happy Camp Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The objective of this project is to remove surface and ladder fuels from wildland urban interface areas, thereby reducing risk to private property, wildlife and other natural resources from catastrophic wildfire. This project will treat approximately 700 acres.
• Smarty Jones Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  This project aims to protect communities and endangered species habitat from wildfire by removing surface and ladder fuels from the wildland urban interface. This project will treat approximately 900 acres.
• Lost Valley Mountain Fuels Reduction Project, Modoc National Forest
  This project, which will cover approximately 115 acres, seeks to remove hazardous fuels and protect wildlife habitat.
• Scott Creek Fuels Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The goal of the Scott Creek Fuels Project is to reduce surface and ladder fuels in WUI sufficiently to affect fire behavior. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Grey Eagle Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The goal of the Grey Eagle Fuel Reduction Project is to reduce fuels in a Wildland-urban interface area to reduce the wildfire risk to adjacent landowners and California spotted owl and northern goshawk nests. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Tower Forest Health Project, Inyo National Forest
  The Tower Forest Health Project has two goals: 1) improve forest health to make the forest more resistant to bark beetles and 2) drought and reduce fuels by reintroducing fire. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Rockeye Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The Rockeye Fuels Reduction Project will reduce fuels in the Wildland-urban interface area in order to reduce the risk of wildfire for adjacent landowners and California spotted owl and northern goshawk nests. This project will treat approximately 746 acres.
• Forest Guard Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The goal of the Grey Eagle Fuel Reduction Project is to reduce fuels in a Wildland-urban interface area to reduce the wildfire risk to adjacent landowners and California spotted owl and northern goshawk nests. Several plantations will also be thinned to reduce the threat of wildfires. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Pilot Creek, Six Rivers National Forest
  During previous watershed analyses, Pilot Creek was designated a Key Watershed, due to its importance for maintaining anadromous fish populations. The project has been designed with three specific objectives: to reduce wildfire risk, to restore degraded oak woodlands, and to contribute to the well-being of local communities.
• Maidu Stewardship, Plumas National Forest
  The objective of the Maidu Stewardship Project is to advance knowledge about Native American forest stewardship using traditional ecological knowledge (TEK). The overall goal of the project is to enhance vegetative diversity and improve forest health. The contract was awarded in FY 2004.
• Granite Watershed, Stanislaus National Forest
  The Granite Watershed project was authorized under the Granite Watershed Enhancement and Protection Act of 1998 (HR-2886). It is designed to meet six specific objectives: watershed protection, watershed enhancement, adaptive management for spotted owl, special interest designation, noxious weed control, and reforestation. Two contracts were awarded in this project in FY 2003 and FY 2004.
• Independence Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The Independence Fuels Reduction Project will identify specific wildfire hazards, restore vegetation mosaic, reduce bark beetle attack in dense conifer stands, reduce the threat of wildfires, and increase survivability of existing plantations with within the project area. A contract was awarded in FY 2004.
• Mokey Bear Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The Mokey Bear Project is to reduce surface and ladder fuels in the Wildland Urban Interface (threat and defense) zones sufficiently to affect a reduction in fire behavior. The contract was awarded in FY 2004.
• Succor, Shirtail, and Oak Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project, Tahoe National Forest
  The Succor, Shirtail, and Oak Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project will protect, increase and perpetuate old forest ecosystems, protect and restore aquatic, riparian and meadow ecosystems, manage fire and fuels, reduce the spread of noxious weeds, and maintain and enhance hardwood ecosystems. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Sun Dawg Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The Sun Dawg Project will reduce surface and ladder fuels in the Wildland Urban Interface (threat and defense zones) sufficiently to affect a reduction in fire behavior, thus protecting adjacent landowners. The contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Last Chance Fuels Reduction Project, Eldorado National Forest
  The Last Chance Fuels Reduction Project will reduce surface and ladder fuels in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) zones. The contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Pillsbury Homesite Fuels Reduction Project, Mendocino National Forest
  The Pillsbury Homesite Fuels Hazard Reduction Project will conduct a series of fuels reduction activities in order to modify vegetation and fuel conditions within and adjacent to the Pillsbury Homesite Tract, a Wildland-Urban Interface community. This project will also improve and protect existing and future bald eagle habitat, and improve riparian reserve health to achieve Conservation Strategy objectives. A contract was awarded in FY 2005.
• Quartz/Summit Knobs Hazardous Fuels Reduction, Stanislaus National Forest
  This project aims to reduce hazardous fuels and the possibility of tree mortality from insect infestation in both wildland-urban interface (WUI) and non-WUI areas. This project will treat approximately 374 acres.
• Colestine Thinning Project, Klamath National Forest
  The objectives for the Colestine Thinning Project include: reduce insect and disease activity, reduce hazardous fuels to protect communities, and enhance habitat for elk, deer, and wild turkey. This project will treat approximately 175 acres.
• Caribou Fire Salvage, Klamath National Forest
  The Caribou Fire Salvage project is designed to recover the economic value of the burned timber, re-vegetate conifer stands and other plant and animal habitats that were burned, reduce the resistance to control of wildfires, and mitigate safety hazards created by falling trees. The project will treat 290 acres.
• Point Project, Klamath National Forest
  The purpose of this project is to reduce fuel loading, threat of wildfires to private lands, and stand density on 267 acres thereby creating sustainable conditions more in line with pre-wildfire suppression era conditions.
• Dogpaw Plantation Thin, Klamath National Forest
  The objectives of this project is to thin this 40 acre plantation to reduce the threat of a large fuel build-up resulting from bark beetle induced mortality, increase growth rates to provide larger trees in less time, and promote health and vigor in the residual trees.
• Mount Ashland Late Successional Reserve Project, Klamath National Forest
  The purpose of the Mt. Ashland LSR Habitat Restoration and Fuels Reduction Project is to reduce the threat of catastrophic (stand-replacing) wildland fire, restore, and maintain late-successional forest habitat for late-successional forest related species including the Threatened northern spotted owl. The project will treat 2247 acres.
• Thompson Stewardship Project, Klamath National Forest
  The Thompson project will thin ponderosa pine stands and remove encroaching Western Juniper over 1,652 acres to create stand conditions that would minimize risks of bark beetle attacks, reduce hazardous fuels conditions to protect communities, and improve habitat for wildlife.
• Trolley Stewardship Project, Klamath National Forest
  The purpose of the Trolley project is to thin 881 acres of ponderosa pine stands and remove encroaching Western Juniper to increase stand health, reduce hazardous fuels conditions, and create sustainable stand conditions.
• Blue Mountain Mechanical Thin ARRA Stewardship, Modoc National Forest
  The objective is to improve forest health, reduce fuel loadings, restore sage steppe and eastside pine habitats and increase native browse and forage species for wildlife through pine thinning and juniper removal on approximately 1790 acres.
• Cedar Pass Forest Health ARRA Stewardship, Modoc National Forest
  The objective is to reduce inter-tree tree competition for limited water and nutrients and promote ponderosa pine and aspen for diversity and resilience to drought, insects, disease and fire. This project will also remove dead and dying trees within and adjacent to multiple recreation sites for public safety within the project area of approximately 385 acres.
• DG Plantation ARRA Stewardship, Modoc National Forest
  The objective is to thin approximately 5668 acres of advanced plantation stands to reduce fuels, improve resistance to drought, insects and disease, create defensible fuelbreaks along roads and provide biomass to local markets.
• Carr Allotment ARRA Stewardship, Modoc National Forest
  The objective is to improve forest health, reduce fuel loadings, restore sage steppe and eastside pine habitats and increase native browse and forage species for wildlife through juniper removal on approximately 1000 acres.
• Lost Sunton ARRA Stewardship, Modoc National Forest
  The objective is to improve forest health, reduce fuel loadings, restore sage steppe and eastside pine habitats and increase native browse and forage species for wildlife through juniper removal on approximately 350 acres.
• Browns Project, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
  Project objectives are to improve forest health, reduce hazardous fuels, and improve water quality near the community of Weaverville, CA. The project was collaboratively developed with the Trinity County Fire Safe Council and Resource Advisory Council. Project will treat 790 acres.
• Hambone Aspen Stewardship, Shasta-Trinity National Forest
  Project objective is to enhance a unique habitat in the Porcupine watershed that is rapidly declining due to conifer encroachment on aspen stands. Project involves conifer removal from aspen stands, new sprouting of aspen, improvement of elk habitat. The project treats 91 acres.
• Lost Horse Fuels Reduction Stewardship, Eldorado National Forest
  Project objectives are to improve forest health and reduce hazardous fuels. The project will treat 307 acres.
• Big Grizzley Fuels Reduction and Forest Health Stewardship, Eldorado National Forest
  Project objectives are to improve forest health and reduce hazardous fuels. The project will treat 3,440 acres.
• Silver Saddle Forest Health Stewardship, Eldorado National Forest
  Project objectives are to improve forest health and reduce hazardous fuels. The project will treat 652 acres.

Bureau of Land Management

• Bailey Forest Health Improvement & Fuel Hazard Reduction, Eaglelake Field Office
  The 200 acre Bailey project would enhance the health and vigor and fire resistance of the pine/juniper forest type. Currently, the area is at risk of losing key ecosystem components to wildfire. The treatments would be a combination of fuel reduction and timber stand improvement with mechanical equipment such as feller bunchers and skidders. Harvested trees would be chipped or manufactured into logs, removed from the site and delivered to a utilization center for power production or lumber. The health and vigor of the remaining stand will be enhanced and more resistant to insects and disease.
• The Inimim Phase II Project, Folsom Field Office
  The Inimim stewardship project implements the Inimim Forest Implementation Plan, developed thorough a collaborative community planning process, by treating high priority acres to promote healthy forests and reduce fire hazard. Fuels will be reduced through mechanical and hand clearing and chipping.
• The North Susan Rim Project, Eagle Lake Field Office
  This project is designed to reduce fire hazard and enhance forest health in the wildland-urban interface. The 165 acre project is composed of three forested parcels of Public Domain land adjacent to private lands. The stands will be thinned using commercial and non-commercial methods and will produce both chips for biomass as well as merchantable forest products.
• The South Knob Project, Alturas Field Office
  The South Knob project remove juniper for the aspen stands in the South Knob area. It would improve mule deer, neo-tropical bird and grouse habitat. This 350 acre project uses integrated stand management and fuels reduction to create an uneven aged stand of aspen that is healthier more productive, resistant to insect, disease and stand replacing wildland fires. It would also remove move juniper from declining sagebrush steppe areas.
• The Walker and Mono Project, Bishop Field Office
  This 200 acre project will remove pinyon and lodgepole pine within critical sage grouse and mule deer habitat as well as neo-tropical bird habitat (aspen groves) to increase plant microsite and seral diversity. The pinyon and lodgepole would be utilized as firewood in the local community and provide jobs in the area.