Mount Home Demonstration State Forest-Pre-Commercial Thining
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Summary
SCH Number
2000031059
Lead Agency
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
(CAL FIRE)
Document Title
Mount Home Demonstration State Forest-Pre-Commercial Thining
Document Type
NEG - Negative Declaration
Received
Document Description
Mount Home Demonstration State Forest staff plan on pre-commercially thining 30 acres of pine plantations, in eight small treatment units. Tree mortality from overcrowding is significant. In addition, brush competition and fuel loading has become a problem. The treatment units vary in size from 1.7 to 5.4 acres and vary in age from 30-40 years. The goal is to remove vigor trees and provide growing space for the residual trees. Vegetation will be cut, lopped and scattered, or piled and burned. All work will be conducted by hand crews using chainsaws and other hand tools. There will not be any heavy equipment used on the project and therefore only minimal ground disturbance. One treatment unit is located in a natural conifer stand with the overstory trees being about 100 years old. Only the dense clusters of small trees will be thinned in this treatment unit.
Contact Information
Name
David Dulitz, Jose Medina
Agency Name
Department of Forestry And Fire Protection
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Location
Cities
Springville
Counties
Tulare
State Highways
190
Waterways
N. Fk, Middle Fk, Tule River
Notice of Completion
State Review Period Start
State Review Period End
State Reviewing Agencies
California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Central Region 4 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of Transportation, District 6 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Fresno Region 5 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Department of Water Resources, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency
Project Issues
Aesthetics, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Geology/Soils, Hydrology/Water Quality, Noise, Recreation, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire, Wildlife, Forest Management
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