Environmental Assessment Completed

Bucks Lake Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project

Plumas National Forest Plumas, California Mt. Hough Ranger District

This project proposes reduction of hazardous fuels, removal of hazardous trees along roads and within recreation sites, road treatments to improve watershed condition, and thinning to improve forest health.

Location

About 10 miles west of Quincy, CA. Includes NFS Roads 24N24,24N29Y,24N33,24N33A,24N34, 24N35X, and 24N36; Plumas County roads 414,423, and 433; and 0.2 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail.

Project timeline

1
Scoping Start
05/04/2011
2
Objection Period Start
02/15/2012
3
Decision
05/2012 (Estimated)
4
Implementation
09/2012 (Estimated)

NEPA / regulatory detail

Categorical Exclusion32.12 (4), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(4); 32.2 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(6)
Special AuthorityHfra Title I: Wildland-Urban Interface; Stewardship Contract, Consolidated Appropriations Resolution Of 2003
Notice and Comment Regulation218
Project ActivityFuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Road Maintenance; Timber Sales (Green); Watershed Improvements
Bucks Lake Hazardous Fuels Reduction ProjectDecision Signed Date: 05/24/2012
ForestsPlumas National Forest
DistrictsMt. Hough Ranger District
Legal Land DescriptionT23N, R7E, Sections 1,3,4,9,11,12. T23N, R8E, Sections 5,6,7,18. T24N, R7E, Sections 27, 28, 29, 32, 36. T24N, R8E, Sections 18 and 32.
Vegetation management (other than forest products)Road managementFuels managementForest productsWatershed management