Categorical Exclusion · HIGH SIERRA RANGER DISTRICT · updated 7/24/2026
Project area is along a ~3-mile stretch of the 10S24 road at Ross Crossing along Dinkey Creek, approximately 3 miles SW of the McKinley Grove of giant sequoias. It includes portions of Township 10 South, Range 26 East, Sections 10, 15, and 14. The Spanish broom infestation consists of six discrete polygons that cover approximately 20 acres. A 45-foot buffer applied to each polygon. Total treatment area including the 45-foot buffer is approximately 30 acres. · Fresno, California
Invasive Species Treatment at the Ross Crossing on the High Sierra Ranger District. This project uses a combination of treatment methods (manual and chemical) to address an infestation of Spanish broom.
Vegetation management (other than forest products)
Finding/Decision Date
7/24/2026
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-47d-USFS |
| Decision Signed Date | 7/24/2026 |
Categorical Exclusion · Sierra National Forest · updated 6/30/2026 · decision 6/2024 (Estimated)
Located along portions of the Sierra Scenic Byway and is north of Chilkoot Lake and south of Globe Rock. · Madera, California
Conduct a combination of activities to improve forest health in the project area. The proposed action would manage forest structure and density to increase resilience and reduce the risk of uncharacteristic stand-replacing wildfire and related adverse effects such as loss of wildlife habitat.
Forest productsFuels managementWatershed management
NEPA Start Date
12/21/2023
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-47d-USFS |
Categorical Exclusion · BASS LAKE RANGER DISTRICT · updated 6/26/2026
Meadow restoration, reconnecting stream with meadow floodplain using bioengineering techniques to place instream structures built from natural materials harvested onsite
Watershed managementWildlife, fish, rare plants
Project documents
Environmental Assessment · BASS LAKE RANGER DISTRICT · updated 6/12/2026
12 air miles north of Bass Lake, California · Fresno, California
The Tenaya Project's objective is to increase forest health and resilience through commercial and pre-commercial harvest, fuels reduction, reforestation and other activities.
Forest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)Watershed managementWildlife, fish, rare plants
Project documents
Environmental Assessment · HIGH SIERRA RANGER DISTRICT · updated 6/2/2026
The project is within Fresno County, generally southeast of the Dinkey Creek Recreation Area. It is to the west of the McKinley Grove Botanical Area, and entirely within the Dinkey Creek watershed. · Fresno, California
This Project is designed to be an accelerated post-fire management response within those high and moderate burn severity footprints that includes hazard abatement, fuels and biomass removal, and restoration.
Forest productsFuels managementResearch and developmentVegetation management (other than forest products)Watershed management
Project documents
Categorical Exclusion · BASS LAKE RANGER DISTRICT · updated 5/8/2026
The project is located east of the town of Oakhurst CA off Sky Ranch Road 6S10 in Madera County. The project is located at Sivils Ranch off the 6S11 Road within the Soquel Allotment. · Fresno, California
New construction of a livestock holding field pasture fence that connects to an existing drift fence. This holding field pasture would be ~1.72 acres and 0.22 miles long and would enclose and connect to the exiting drift fence on the western border.
Grazing management
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-33d-USFS |
Environmental Assessment · High Sierra Ranger District · updated 5/7/2026
East of Shaver Lake, west of Wishon and John Muir Wilderness Boundary, within the Dinkey Creek watershed and within the 154,000 Dinkey Creek collaborative landscape · Fresno, California
The project includes restoration and vegetation management to reduce risk of high-severity wildfires designed to help safeguard forest resources and nearby communities. Note: the 2025 Garnet Fire burned much of the proposed project area, and so the EA completion deadline moved to 10/01/2026.
Forest productsFuels managementVegetation management (other than forest products)Wildlife, fish, rare plants
Project documents
Categorical Exclusion · HIGH SIERRA RANGER DISTRICT · updated 5/5/2026
The bridge replacement is located on 10S69 Milepost 19.8 in Haslett Basin. · Fresno, California
The project consists of replacing a bridge with a precast concrete slab and other associated parts. The bridge approach will be graded and the prior bridged demolished.
Road management
Categorical Exclusion · Sierra National Forest · updated 5/4/2026
Assessors parcel numbers 059-054-021 and 022 · Fresno, California
This project involves a FRTA Easement Permit & allows private landowners to rehabilitate & maintain a FS road & construct a very short section of new road on FS land, allowing controlled access on sum of the two short sections to access their lands.
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-28d-USFS |
Categorical Exclusion · BASS LAKE RANGER DISTRICT · updated 5/4/2026
The project is located on the Bass Lake Ranger District, Sierra National Forest in Mariposa County, California along State Route 140, just north of the junction with State Route 49. · Madera, California
This proposal would allow or the construction, operation, and maintenance of buried fiber optic infrastructure along Highway 140 within Mariposa County.
Special use management
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-28d-USFS |
Decision Memo · Sierra National Forest All Units · updated 4/23/2026
east of Huntington Lake between the Kaiser and Dinkey Lake Wildernesses. · Fresno, California
help the project area to be more resilient to future drought, restore and preserve wildlife habitat to persist and to reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristic wildfire with all the associated damage that causes to resources
Forest productsVegetation management (other than forest products)Fuels management
Decision
04/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation
05/2026 (Estimated)
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (25), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(25) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Biomass; Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Green) |
| Forests | Sierra National Forest |
| Districts | Sierra National Forest All Units |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Decision Memo · Bass Lake Ranger District · updated 11/18/2025
The project is located off Worman Road and 6S24 Forest Road near Ahwahnee, California. · Madera, California
The Worman Road Fuels Reduction project includes proposed hand and mechanical vegetation management treatment of hazardous fuel loadings in a community wildfire protection zone near the forest boundary and Worman Road of Highway 49.
Fuels management
Decision
10/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation
10/2025 (Estimated)
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.3(11) |
| Special Authority | 2021 Infrastructure: Fuel Break Ce |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels) |
| Forests | Sierra National Forest |
| Districts | Bass Lake Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Township 6 South, Range 20 East, Section 7 |
Environmental Assessment · Sierra National Forest All Units · updated 11/12/2025
The entirety of both the Sierra and Sequoia National Forests · Fresno; Madera; Mariposa; Tulare, California
Implement a range of prescribed fire techniques across the landscape.
Fuels management
Comment Period
10/09/2024
Objection Period Start
05/28/2025
Decision
11/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation
11/2025 (Estimated)
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 218 (2013) Non-HFRA |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements |
| Forests | Sierra National Forest |
| Districts | Sierra National Forest All Units |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Decision Memo · Sierra National Forest All Units · updated 6/25/2025
NE of Bass Lake, in N Fork Willow Creek watershed, sub-watershed of Upper San Joaquin River Basin, surrounds Central Camp, includes Gaggs and Whisker's campgrounds · Madera, California
Fuel reduction, forest restoration, increase forest resilience and resistance to drought and inserts, and reduce likelihood of uncharacteristic severe wildfire.
Fuels management
Decision
06/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation
07/2025 (Estimated)
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.3 (9) |
| Special Authority | Hfra Title Vi: Wildfire Resilience Ce |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements |
| Forests | Sierra National Forest |
| Districts | Bass Lake Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Decision Memo · Bass Lake Ranger District · updated 1/13/2025
Nelder Grove Historical boundary and the roads around the Grove boundary · Madera, California
Fuels reduction to reduce threat to Nelder Grove giant sequoia grove and wildlife habitat by reducing fuel ladders and treating standing and down fuel loading to reduce potential loss in a subsequent fire.
Vegetation management (other than forest products)Fuels management
Decision
12/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation
01/2025 (Estimated)
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements |
| Nelder Grove Ecological Restoration Project | Decision Signed Date: 12/30/2024 |
| Forests | Sierra National Forest |
| Districts | Bass Lake Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Decision Memo · High Sierra Ranger District · updated 6/7/2024
The project is located in and around McKinley Grove. · Fresno, California
. The project is designed to reduce the threat of wildfire to the McKinley Grove of giant sequoias.
Fuels managementVegetation management (other than forest products)
Comment Period
01/22/2024
Decision
05/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation
07/2024 (Estimated)
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.3 (9) |
| Special Authority | 2021 Infrastructure: Emergency Actions |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 2021 Infrastructure: Emergency Actions |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements; Timber Sales (Green) |
| Forests | Sierra National Forest |
| Districts | High Sierra Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Decision Memo · Sierra National Forest All Units · updated 6/7/2024
Project area is located within the Red Mountain OHV Staging Area in the Tamarack Creek drainage off Highway 168 below Huntington Lake, at the junction of Forest Roads 8S IO and 8S42. The legal descrip · Fresno, California
Sierra National Forest (SNF) is proposing to construct a single vault toilet that will accompany an existing Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Staging Area that serves the Red Mountain OHV trail system on the High Sierra Ranger District (HSRD).
Recreation management
Decision
05/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation
07/2024 (Estimated)
Project documents
NEPA / regulatory detail
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (22), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(22) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Facility Improvements/Construction |
| Forests | Sierra National Forest |
| Districts | High Sierra Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |