Powerline Forest Improvement - Powerline Service Road and County Road A-14
Summary
SCH Number
2005128235
Public Agency
California Department of Parks and Recreation
Document Title
Powerline Forest Improvement - Powerline Service Road and County Road A-14
Document Type
NOE - Notice of Exemption
Received
Posted
12/20/2005
Document Description
Phase I: Conduct pre-construction archaeological field survey and resource inventory in forest improvement project located at Plumas Eureka State Park to identify archaeological resources that require protection from ground disturbance activity.
Phase II: If the systematic survey results in the positive identification of archaeological sites and/or significant isolates, protective measures will be implemented to avoid impacts from proposed actiosn of Phase III. Measures will consist of delineation of the cultural resources with flagging, identification of the resources on a topographic map, and communication of the resource locations and the protection measures to the project manager. Any fuel reduction in areas within and adjacent to recorded archaeological sites and cultural resource features will be limited to hand clearing. Vehicles shall be prohibited within these exclusion zones. Pile burning within site boundaries is prohibited.
Phase III: Create a defensible fuel profile zone (DFPZ) on 75 acres at Plumas Eureka State Park to reduce the threat of a catastrophic wildfire and improve native forest composition and structure. Trees to be removed will be marked with paint by, or under the supervision of a California Registered Professional Forester. Debris piles shall be burned in accordance with county and state regulations. All slash will be removed from flagged archaeological areas by hand and burned outside of the site within the DFPZ boundary. A hand crew and/or logging contractor will perform the work.
Contact Information
Name
Diane Cassano
Agency Name
California Department of Parks and Recreation
Contact Types
Lead/Public Agency
Phone
Email
Location
Counties
Plumas
Other Location Info
Plumas Eureka State Park
Notice of Exemption
Exempt Status
Categorical Exemption
Type, Section or Code
Section 15304, 15306
Reasons for Exemption
Project consists of basic data collection activities that will not result in a serious or major disturbance to an environmental resource, and minor alteration in the condition of land and vegetation that does not involve the removal of healthy, mature, scenic trees except for forestry purposes and is included as "archaeological investigations by department staff" and "resource management projects" in the Department of Parks and Recreation's list of exempt activities, in accordance with CCR § 15300.4.
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