Eldorado National Forest — Project Detail

Replace 2 deteriorating culverts and prevent potential failure of the overlaying highway.

The Grizzly Flats Community Services District Proposes a temporary access road along 09N47 to access and repair the existing North Canyon Creek diversion and associated infrastructure which was damaged by the Caldor Fire in 2021.

Sierra at Tahoe proposes additional parking between existing parking lots E and F as identified in the 2018 Master Development Plan.

Create a Fuel Break by removing vegetation along the El Dorado Canal on the Placerville Ranger District of the Eldorado National Forest.

Upgrade existing snow depth and soil moisture sensors.

The project would upgrade approximately 10,350 linear feet of an existing, subsurface electrical line to a 12 kV loop system. The line extends from the resort base to Chair 4 on the back side.

Forest health, fuel reduction, and stream and meadow restoration activities near Wrights Lake.

Modernize and enhance the recreation infrastructure and experience of visitors and residents alike with upgrades to parking, kiosks, trails, restrooms, campsites, and accessibility features commensurate with present-day usage.

Rock Creek Road, FSR 12N70, was heavily impacted by the Winter storms of 2022 and is currently impassable. The existing culvert will be replaced with a newly designed culvert and the road and slope will be stabilized.

To create a connection between Sayles and Bryan trails that is suitable for bicycle use, and to realign the Pacific Crest Trail where bicycle use would be excluded.

Construct temporary fire engine bay and housing facilities at the site of the Grizzly Flat Fire House which was lost in the Caldor Fire in 2021.

Trail and Trail Head Parking repair and resurfacing. Install bathroom facility. Install three footbridges along trail.

Amend the special use permit issued to Placer County Water Agency for the Middle Meadows Water Source Repairs to include a new well. This well will supply water to Middle Meadows Group Campground.

Issue special use permit to Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Install, operate, and maintain underground 4kV powerline & fiber optic communication line. Install cables in existing road. Store excess excavated material at existing stockpile site.

The project would replace a bridge that was damaged by the Caldor fire in 2021, restoring vehicle passage across Alder Creek along Alder Creek Road (11N46).

Sierra at Tahoe proposes installation of 4 to 6 test wells to assess ground water production potential.

Construct a new fire engine bay and housing facilities at the site of the Grizzly Flat Fire House which was lost in the Caldor Fire in 2021.

The Dru Barner Campground water system needs a new power source, filter system, water flow metering and security fencing for solar panels. The generator has failed and needs replacement. Iron accumulates in tank bottoms.

The trail and the Trail Head parking area is in need of repair and resurfacing. Installation of bathroom facilities. Removal of vegetation at the entrance of the parking area.

Reforest approximately 125 acres, including site preparation, along the Mormon Emigrant Trail from roughly Bryants to Traps Canyon.

Improve wildlife habitat and meadow hydrology by removing small conifer trees (<10" dbh) that are encroaching UC Cow Camp Meadow. Cut trees using chainsaws; then scatter and/or chip. Place few trees in stream channel to trap sediment.

Construct greenhouses and outdoor seeding infrastructure on previously disturbed ground at the Placerville Nursery.

The Forest Service proposes constructing a halfpipe and three ski jumps (mounds) at the Sierra at Tahoe ski area in locations where these features are constructed annually out of snow.

Upgrade existing snow depth and soil moisture sensors.

Expanding an existing parking area.

Hazard tree felling and removal along roads through NFS lands to provide for safe use of and to reduce safety hazards on roads.

Repair and armor the creek bank supporting the trail bridge footing.

The Forest Projects Plan (Phase 1) is a landscape level forest, community, and wildlife habitat enhancement and protection project proposing non-commercial mechanical fuel reduction work, manual vegetation treatments, and prescribed burning.

Create a fuel break on approximately 2418 acres (24 linear miles) in the immediate vicinity of 230kV and 69kV electrical infrastructure near Slab Creek Reservoir, Union Valley Reservoir, and Loon Lake.

A Gate will be installed in order to limit unauthorized access to Martin Meadow.

Improved fencing and placement of boulders to protect a CA Rare Plant population on the Eldorado National Forest.

El Dorado Irrigation District has proposed to repair or replace an underground pipe near Sly Park.

Sierra-at-Tahoe is proposing hazard tree removal and new trail construction. The 2021 Caldor Fire caused damage to the area, affecting up to 80% of the vegetation.

The Grizzly Flat Community Fuel Break would

East Silver Lake Improvement District (ESLIA) has proposed to install a well within the East Silver Lake Recreation Residence Tract to provide water to the cabin tract.

Sierra at Tahoe proposes to replace a maintenance building which was destroyed by the Caldor Fire in 2021.

The Sugar Pine Foundation Proposes to plant 1500 Western White Pines and 1000 Red Firs near NFS recreation sites (trailheads and campgrounds) that were impacted by the Caldor Fire in 2021.

Combination of fuels reduction and reforestation actions. Fall dead trees and remove to mill or biomass facility, or pile and burn on site. Plant conifer seedlings. Chemically control shrubs. Burn fuel accumulations (broadcast and jackpot burns).

Mastication (primarily) or hand thinning to reduce fuels and fire hazard on 476 acres within the wildland urban interface. Follow-up burning and herbicide are proposed to maintain reduced fuel conditions and shift fuel types to grass/forb community.

In collaboration with tribal partners, this project will reduce fuels (via hand felling/thinning/piling, chipping) and re-establish native plants at culturally significant areas and sensitive plant sites that burned in the 2021 Caldor Fire.

The project will plant approximately 200 acres (approximately 40,000 trees) along portions of the Mormon Emigrant Trail and Silver Fork Road within the Caldor Fire burn area.

Improve hydrologic function within 2 meadows which have been highly manipulated by past logging, ranching, roads and diversions. In-channel work would include 'Stage 0' gully fill and meadow surface reshaping techniques. Reroute a section of trail.

Amend PG&E's Master Special Use Permit to include the installation, use, and maintenance of a remote weather station at Bald Mountain. The weather station would be mounted on a wooden pole and be solar powered. Project area is smaller than 0.1 acre.

The Brown Rock Project has been cancelled due to impacts from the 2021 Caldor Fire. Original proposal was designed to reduce fuels, improve forest health, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape on up to 3,000 acres.

The project would establish the Echo Lake SNO-PARK as a summer trailhead, add and modify road and other signs to direct trail users to the trailhead and construct a roughly 1,900 ft. natural surface trail connection between the trailhead and PCT/TRT.

Re-issue special use permit that authorizes an approximately 12-acre fenced pasture located off of Mud Lake Road (17E24)for grazing of up to eight horses.

Actions under consideration: fuel break creation; commercial & non-commercial thinning; shrub mastication & pruning; herbicide application; prescribed burning; heritage resource protection; meadow & watershed enhancement, MVUM change & road work.

Following 2020 Fork Fire: roughly 644 acres of timber harvest (fire salvage)and fuel reduction activities. Other treatments include reforestation (218 acres), herbicide application, hazard tree removal, and transportation system management actions.

A long-term special use permit would be issued to El Dorado County to construct and use an oversized two car garage to store a pumper truck & trailer to service the restrooms on the Rubicon Trail. The shed will also include a small emergency shelter.

The Forest Service proposes to issue an authorization to Placer County Water Agency to conduct geotechnical testing for a proposal to construct the new Hell Hole Work Station.

Existing barrier rock along Bear Creek Rd & Meadow Brook Rd would be replaced with larger boulders to protect part of Traverse Creek Botanical Special Interest Area recently impacted by vehicles. Damaged areas would be restored & revegetated by hand.

Modify the existing permit for Volcano Communication Group and upgrade the Verizon Wireless system at Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Chairlift #2. Remove existing equipment and install a 15-foot monopole with antenna, microwave dish, and radio equipment.

Stabilization activities along approximately one mile of trail, including approximately 11 retaining walls, 20 stone staircases of assorted elevation gains, one small access path reroute, and installation of multiple drainage structures.

The camp is working to bring the outhouses (currently identified by EPA as large capacity cesspools) into compliance with EPA requirements as set forth in the Clean Water Act. The outhouses are no longer acceptable because they are not vaulted.

This project would reroute 12 trail segments within the Rock Creek Trail System to protect resources and improve user safety. Estimated trail construction (12 segments)of 4.7 miles. Estimated trail obliteration (of 9 existing segments)of 2.5 miles.

Mastication and hand thinning of brush and small trees on approximately 1,500 acres (of which 750 acres is National Forest System lands) along the ridgeline above the South Fork American River, north of Highway 50 near Camino and Pollock Pines.

Amend LRMP to recognize the 5 parcels of lands donated from PG&E, totaling approximately 1,335 acres were donated to provide permanent protection of the natural resources.

Fuels reduction treatments, including understory thinning, removal of brush and small trees, on approximately 3,000 acres adjacent to the communities of Pollock Pines in the vicinity of Jenkinson Lake and Sly Park.

Removal of conifers less than 10 inches dbh, installation of rock riffles, log weirs, and placement of barriers to discourage cattle grazing and OHV use.

Hazardous fuels treatment to improve wildfire resilience. Commercial thinning, biomass cutting, tractor piling, and pile burning on approximately 1,100 acres near Volcanoville. Includes areas of post-treatment prescribed fire and herbicide use.

Replace 92 culverts and install two new water control structures on NFS roads within watersheds affected by the 2004 Power Fire. Majority of culverts will be upsized from 18 inches to 24 inches in diameter, replaced in kind, or sized accordingly.

The proposed project is to implement near-complete gully fill. Road crossing would use a rock/soil fill with vegetation transplants to raise both the channel and floodplain to match the existing culvert invert/floodplain elevation.

To reduce surface fuels, thin commercial and non-commercial plantations, and install strategic fuel breaks along US Highway 50.

Proposal to approve the use of herbicides and mastication as part of PG&E's transmission line maintenance vegetation management program.

Improve wetland habitat and restore the wetland function of the Francis Cow Camp area. The wetland has been diminished due past activities including OHV use, logging, & ranching. Actions include lodgepole felling, in-channel work and prescribed burns

Thin pre-commercial sized trees in young plantations and natural regeneration for forest stand improvement.

Improve forest health, reduce hazardous fuels, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape on approximately 3,000 acres by commercially and precommercially thinning, understory burning, and reconstructing roads.

Create and maintain a fuel treatment network through a combination of thinning surface and ladder fuels and prescribed burning on approximately 3,000 acres in strategic locations in proximity to NFS system roads.

Prescribed burning on approximately 8,700 acres to re-introduce fire in the General Sherman landscape to improve forest health, fire resiliency, and wildlife habitat. Hand thinning for aspen restoration and preparation for prescribed burning.

Improve forest health and resilience on approximately 2,600 acres through a combination of treatments, including understory thinning to reduce risk of insect and disease, increase stand vigor, and improve forest resilience to wildfire.

Watershed restoration activities, including placement of coarse woody material and/or rock in stream segments, blocking and stabilizing or decompacting non-system roads, and management of dispersed recreation sites.

Fuels reduction treatments along key ridges and roads on approximately 400 acres through mastication and hand thinning with follow up herbicide treatments within the General Sherman landscape area.

Understory burning is proposed for 28 units covering approximately 2,544 acres. The project would reintroduce fire back into fire-dependent ecosystems. Hand thinning using chainsaws, pruning,& hand piling may occur to prepare for prescribed burning.

Felling and removal of hazard trees for public health and safety associated with road maintenance of National Forest System Roads.

Improve landscape resilience to disturbance by treating select stands to reduce fuels, improve growing conditions for individual trees, and improve species composition on approximately 6000 acres of plantation and natural stands.

Rehabilitation and/or removal of 2.6 miles of roads and skid trails surrounding Cody Meadow, contruction of a small scale plug and pond, planting of riparian vegetation in the meadow, and rerouting of road access to the outside edge of the meadow.

Develop Allotment Management Plan for the Bear River Grazing Allotment that will be incorporated into the term grazing permit and used to guide management of grazing operations, including issuance of a special use permit for use of Dufrene cow camp.

Vegetation removal through timber harvest, hand thinning and burning, mastication, piling and prescribed burning, meadow and aspen enhancement, stream improvement, and road improvement.

The project would involve forest thinning and fuels reduction activities on approximately 4,000 acres to improve forest health, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape condition.

The project includes planting and release of seedlings. Portions of the area may require site prep before planting, including hand cutting, mechanical site prep, and herbicides.

Reduce hazardous fuels, improve forest health, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape on approximately 3,350 acres by commercially and pre-commercially thinning, understory burning, and reconstructing roads.

Proposal to issue a 5-year special use permit to AT&T for operating & maintaining a buried telephone line on land recently acquired by the US Forest Service. This line will be included under a phone line master permit when that permit is re-issued.

The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has proposed gill netting and electrofishing to removing non-native brook trout from Island Lake in the Desolation Wilderness. This project will benefit the endangered Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog.

Permit for construction of a communication tower by Crown Castle USA Inc. within the Sierra at Tahoe permit boundary. The tower would be a 165%u2019 monopole located approximately 800 feet south of Parking Lot A in the Sierra at Tahoe base area.

Tiered to original decision, conduct fuel reduction treatments on approximately 2,500 acres of mixed conifer and red fir forests that burned at low to moderate severity during the 2004 Power Fire. Proposed areas required consultation with the USFWS.

This project seeks to reduce the number of dead and dying hazard trees at key locations on the ranger district where public use is high, where infrastructure values are substantial, and in areas being managed for lower hazardous fuel conditions.

Convert Camp Silverado Boy Scout Facility into rentable group campsites.

Reduce hazards & fuel accumulation within WUI by salvaging 154 acres of dead/dying trees & clearing 9 acres of brush within the 5,645 acre perimeter of the 2016 Trailhead Fire. Conifer reforestation would occur on 85 of the acres within project area.

Repair and replace culverts along Weber Mill (11N38) and Granite Springs (11N99) Roads.

The project would rehabilitate eleven non-National Forest System (NFS) routes. This work will eliminate issues currently impacting watershed function. Project would restore 3.2 miles of road (equaling roughly 6.5 acres).

Conduct stand density management for forest health on about 676 acres of ca. 40 year old pine plantations and 64 acres of adjacent natural stands using commercial and pre-commercial thinning. Around 10 miles of road reconstruction is proposed.

Conduct fuel reduction treatments on approximately 3,500 acres of mixed conifer and red fir forests that burned at low to moderate severity during the 2004 Power Fire.

Commercial thinning, biomass removal, tractor piling and mastication on approximately 1,200 acres of forest lands generally within the WUI or planned SPLATS. Treatment of noxious weeds would be aimed at containing and controling.

Road repairs along the Carson Emigrant National Recreation Trail (17E24), Hungalelti Ridge Trail (16E26), and the Long Valley Trail (17E28). Change the vehicle use designation on the northern end of the Long Valley Trail at Mud Lake.

Cut and remove dead and imminent dying trees in areas of high mortality next to the Grizzly Flat community to reduce hazards along the property boundary and roadsides, and reduce fuels to minimize the chance of high-intensity wildfire.

To implement corrective actions for Strawberry 4WD Trail to comply with the 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment Riparian Conservation Objectives Standard and Guideline 100 as it pertains to meadows in the Eldorado National Forest.

Installation of monitoring wells for the detection and prevention of runoff with high nitrate levels from existing leach fields.

Improve and maintain Deer Valley Trail (19E01) and Blue Lakes road (9N01).

This project provides for fiber facilities for a future AT&T switched Ethernet service for Booth Creek Resort Properties at 1111 Sierra At Tahoe Road, Twin Bridges, CA 95735, within the existing AT&T South Lake Tahoe Tamarack Wire Center (TB92).

Conduct stand density managment for forest health on approximately 3,000 acres of 35 to 40 year old pine plantations using commercial and pre-commercial thinning. About 15 miles of road reconstruction is proposed.

Conduct stand density management for forest health within plantations through commercial and pre-commercial thinning.

Maintain and repair Weber Mill (11N38) and Granite Springs (11N99) roads.

Close 12 shafts and 25 adits from entry to reduce the health and safety threat to the general public, wildland firefighters, forest employees, and wildlife.

Reduce hazardous fuels, improve forest health, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape on approximately 1,000 acres by commercially and precommercially thinning, understory burning, and reconstructing roads.

The project proposes a land for land exchange of three contiguous federal parcels managed by the USFS Eldorado National Forest, totaling 433 acres known as Iowa Hill, for a single non-federal parcel of 325 acres known as Gerle Meadow.

Prescribed understory burning, aspen enhancement, and meadow restoration within the Caples Creek Watershed.

Restoration of approximately 9 acres within the Elkins Flat Staging Area - Installation of parking control features and interpretive signage.

Develop Allotment Management Plan for the Neilsen (Morrison) Allotment that will be incorporated into the term grazing permit and used to guide management of grazing operations.

The project was developed in response to the need to restore portions of the King Fire of 2014 and includes hazard tree removal, fuel reduction, salvage logging, reforestation, road improvements, watershed improvements, and research.

Reconstruct three segments of the Barrett Lake 4wd Ttrail that cross meadows. Two segments would be reconstructed in place and one segment would be replaced by a reroute .27 miles in length, with the original trail segment to be restored.

Replace 3 existing stream crossings with crossings designed to allow aquatic species passage at South Wallace Canyon, Sailor Ravine, and Plum Creek (10N20YA).

Construct one trail bridge, reroute a short segment of trail, restore the existing stream crossing, and install a bottomless arch culvert.

Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to analyze 42 roads and trails that cross meadows to determine there consistency with the ENF Land and Resource Management Plan and determine which routes to designate for public motorized vehicle use.

Develop a forest wide treatment plan for noxious weeds and other invasive species. Treatments include a combination of chemical, mechanical, and manual control measures that are based on the biology of the target species.

Reduce fuels and improve forest health on 2,200 acres of natural stands and plantations. Treatments include commercial thinning, pre-commercial thinning, tractor piling, and understory burning.

Maintain and operate the Silver Bear OSV Trail System on the Amador Ranger Dstrict including grooming and facility maintenance.

Construct an office facility and expand the current size of the Pacific Heliport to accomodate the National Type I Large Fire Support helicopter and National Type II initial attack helicopter and associated personnel.

Develop and analyze an Allotment Management Plan for the Old Pino Allotment that will be incorporated into term grazing permits and guide the management of rangeland resources.

The project would close from human entry 11 shafts and 14 audits. The closures would allow for bat ingress and egress where suitable habitat occurs.

Relocate approximately 400 feet of trail 25 out of the Middle Dry Creek riparian area near the Elkins Flat Staging Area

Construct 2 trail bridges, repair 3 existing bridges, repair 1 water crossing, and restore crossings bypassed by the new bridges.

The Forest Service was a cooperating agency, assisting the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in that Agency's geothermal leasing analysis and decision. The BLM issued a record of decision on 12/17/2008.

Salvage project involving the removal of trees that were blown down by a series of wind events in November and December of 2011.

Drill one to two new water wells, install a solar powered pump, solar panels, water storage tank, a building, and fenced enclosure to protect all of the items listed. Install new water lines to connect to the existing system.

Restore 3/4 mile of a low gradient tributary stream of Indian Creek in Indian Valley using a series of plug and ponds to enhance habitat for Sierra Nevada mountain yellow-legged frogs, Yosemite toad, willow fly catcher and other riparian species.

Issue an easement to El Dorado County for the portion of the Rubicon Trail on National Forest System Lands from Wentworth Springs Campground to the Placer County Line. The easement will authorize installation of a bridge across Ellis Creek.

Commercial harvesting of both live and dead hazard trees along approximately 70 miles of roads, within administrative sites, and within recreation sites on the Pacific Ranger District.

Re-issue special use permit for the existing facilities at the Sword and Sandals Cabin Lot

Vegetation treatment of surface and ladder fuels on approximately 4,000 acres of plantations and natural stands near Chaix Mtn. on the Georgetown RD. Treatments include mastication, underburning, commercial and precommercial thinning, tractor piling,

Install a bridge across woods creek, remove existing culvert, stabilize adjacent streambanks with native material, and re-align access road.

Connect Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District to the PG&E power grid at Salt Springs powerhouse & transmit power to the Kirkwood PUD ratepayers to replace desiel engine generators currently in use.

Issue a 5 year special use permit to hold the 49er Enduro in the Elkins Flat OHV area and the Family Enduro in the Gold Note OHV area. The events would occur annually beginning in October 2011.

Commercial and precommercial thinning with follow-up prescribed burning in plantations, mixed conifer and red fir stands to improve forest health and enhance watershed conditions.

Project includes completing erosion control measures, complying with ADA accessability of facilities, and reducing wildfire risk around facilities.

Improve the existing trailhead parking to accomodate day users and equestrian trailers.

Re-route a small section of the Barrett Lake Jeep Trail that goes through a wet meadow, and construct a bridge across Jones Fork Silver Creek to re-route the trail that currently crosses through the creek.

Fuels reduction and stand improvement on approx. 1,500 acres within the wildland urban intermix. Incudes aspen restoration, visual management, commercial thinning, pre-commercial thinning, tractor piling, and understory burning.

Re-issue a 10 year communication site lease to Crown Castle International Corp. for Bald Mountain.

Amend Land and Resource Management Plans for ten (10) Forests within the Sierra Nevada region by modifying Management Indicator Species (MIS) lists and associated monitoring strategies.