FOREST HEALTH PILOT
1996 Proposed Projects
Tahoe, Plumas and Lassen National Forests
Fire Hazard Reduction
| Forest | District | Type of Project | Project Name | ESTIMATED Projected Acres |
ESTIMATED Volume Output (mbf) |
ESTIMATED Outyear Analysis Acres Volume (mbf) |
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| Tahoe | Fuelbreak Construction | Summit (DFPZ) | 900 | 3,100 | |||
| " | Treasure F.B. (DFPZ) | 200 | 600 | ||||
| " | Corridor (DFPZ) | 1,400 | 300 | ||||
| " | Highway 89 (DFPZ) | 150 | 200 | ||||
| Fuelbreak Underburn | Calpine Community Defense Zone |
75 | 0 | ||||
| Plumas | BW | Thin & Remove | Willow
Creek Community Interface (CDZ, FRZ) |
1,500 | 5,500 | ||
| FR | Robinson Thin (FRZ) | 500 | 4,000 | ||||
| MH | Fuelbreak Construction and Thin & Remove |
Hungry/Wilcox (DFPZ, FRZ) |
2,800 | 5,000 | |||
| BW | Fuelbreak Construction | Pinebelt (DFPZ) | 1,000 | 3,000 | |||
| NEPA for 97 projects | Outyear Planning | 4,000 | 1,500 | ||||
| (Estimate 300 ac treated) | |||||||
| Lassen | AL | Thin & Remove | Mineral (CDZ) QLG comments |
3,300 | 10,000 | ||
| HC | Fuelbreak Construction | Highway 44 & 16 Road (DFPZ) | 1,000 | 4,000 | |||
| AL | Bailey/Swain/10 Road (DFPZ) QLG comments | 2,000 | 7,000 | ||||
| EL | Fuelbreak Construction and Thin and Remove | Antelope Biomass (DFPZ, FRZ) | 1,000 | 2,000 | |||
| AL | Fuelbreak Hand Thin | Mill Cr/Silver Lk/Feather River Hoites and WiCr. (CDZ) | 100 | 0 | |||
| AL | Almanor & Prattville (CDZ) | 300 | 0 | ||||
| EL | Spaulding (CDZ) | 300 | 0 | ||||
| HC | Fuelbreak Tractor Pile | Manzanita Chutes (CDZ) | 300 | 0 | |||
| ESTIMATED TOTALS (Including 14% Indirect Costs) | |||||||||
| Forest | Amount | ESTIMATED Acres |
$/Acre | ESTIMATED Volume Output (mbf) |
ESTIMATED Outyear Anaysis Acres Volume |
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| Tahoe | $ 636,000 | 2,725 | $233.39 | 4,200 | |||||
| Plumas | $1,391,00 | 5,800 | $239.82 | 17,500 | 4,000 | 1,500 | |||
| Lassen | $1,573,000 | 8,300 | $189.52 | 23,000 | |||||
| TOTAL FIRE HAZARD REDUCTION | $3,600,000 | 16,825 | $213.97 | 44,700 | 4,000 | 1,500 | |||
| FINAL TOTALS (Including 14% Indirect Costs) | |||||||||
| Forest | Amount | ESTIMATED Acres |
$/Acre | ESTIMATED Volume Output (mbf) |
ESTIMATED Outyear Anaysis Acres Volume |
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| Tahoe | $ 733,372 | 2,166 | $338.58 | n/a | |||||
| Plumas | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| Lassen | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
| TOTAL FIRE HAZARD REDUCTION | $3,600,000 | n/a | n/a | n/a | |||||
Watershed Restoration
Beckwourth District, Plumas National Forest
| Project Name | Description | Work by | Cost |
| Bagley Meadow (Red Clover II) | This meadow has be dewatered as Bagley Creek has downcut into a gully. This project will fill the gully, possibly create ponds in the meadow, redirect teh creek back into a channel in the meadow, and treat two small headcuts. Beneftis will include raising the water table in the meadow, delaying runoff, enhanceing meadow habitat, and decreasing sediment delivery to Red Clover Creek. | CRM* | $25,000 |
| Summit-Downing Allotment (Last Chance) | This project will restore a headwater tributary of Rowland Creek. Work to be done will stabilize the downcutting in the creek either by constructing a stabel B-type channel or constructing checkdams and biotechnical revegetation work. Length of channel is approximately 1,500 feet. The project will decrease sediment delivery into the head waters of Little Last Chance Creek and enhance riparian habitat along Rowland Creek. | CRM | $20,000 |
| Summit-Downing Allotment (Last Chance) | This project will stabilize numerous headcuts and gullies situated within the Ferris, Charles, Astray and Jordan Creeks, all tributaries to Last Chance Creek. Treatment of thise streams at tis time is critical, since headcuts lead to gully formation and lower baselevel conditions which promote lateral stream cutting (i.e. Wolf and Greenhorn Creeks). Restoration work will occur at approximately eitght to ten project sites and will reduce sediment movement to Last Chance Creek and, in turn the North Fork of the Feather River. this project will be completed by Forest Service crews. Rock haul will be contracted by the Forest Service | Range Crew | $50,000 |
| Little Stoney | Last year a headcut treatment on Little Stoney Creek partially washed out. The rock step-pool structure needs to be rebuilt. This will decrease sediment delivery to Last Chance Creek, enhance riparian habitat on Stoney Creek and improve fish habitat. | CRM | $5,000 |
| Aspen Release (various locations) | On the eastside of the Plumas National Forest, the suppression of wildfire has resulted in a substantial decline in aspen stands which depend on wildfire to rejuvenate stands adn reduce competition with coniferous species. White fir, in particular, reproduces well beneath aspen and eventually tops the shade intolerant aspen, killing the stands over time. It is proposed to thin conifers from these stands to release the aspen, creating healthy aspen stands to provide diversity for wildlife and improved watershed and forest condition. | CRM (Jobs in the Woods Crews) | $10,000 |
| $110,000 |
* CRM- Feather River Coordinated Resources Managment
Mount Hough District, Plumas National Forest
| Project Name | Description | Work by | Cost |
| Boulder Creek Meadow | Located adjacent to the Boulder Creek Work Center, this project will raise the channel bed elevation and groundwater table in the meadow. The channel function will be restored resulting in decreased delivery of sediment to Antelope Lake, additional habiat for riparian vetation, additional wetland habitat and improved fish habitat. Desing may include channel reconstruction, filling in the gully with dams and ponds, in-channel check dams and in-channel biotechnical revegetation. Work will require heavy equipment for earthwork and hand crews for revegetation. Riparian areas will be fenced until vegetation is re-established. | CRM FS |
$60,000 $5,000 |
| Boudler Creek, Unnamed Meadow | CRM | $20,000 | |
| Upstream Hallet Meadow | CRM | $10,000 | |
| Indian Rock Pit Developement | CRM FS |
$25,000 $5,000 |
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| Newton Flat Pond Channel | CRM | $8,000 | |
| Wapaunsie/Spanish Creek Gravel | CRM FS |
$8,000 $4,000 |
|
| Total | $145,000 |