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California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) Update

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The California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention is providing funding to the Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County to implement vegetation treatments on up to 165 acres of State Responsibility Area lands at the University of California Santa Cruz. This initiative is part of the broader UC Santa Cruz Wildfire Vegetation Management Project, which covers up to 2,017 acres and operates under the California Vegetation Treatment Project Program Environmental Impact Report. The primary goals are to reduce fuel loads, promote watershed and forest health, and demonstrate the efficacy of climate beneficial prescriptions. Authorized treatment types include fuel breaks, ecological restoration, and WUI fuel reduction, utilizing manual thinning and mastication. These activities are designed to comply with the California Vegetation Treatment Project guidelines and a specific court mandate to avoid type conversion in chaparral and coastal sage scrub plant communities. Maintenance will follow the same treatment protocols as the initial implementation to ensure long-term environmental stability and wildfire risk reduction.

General Info

CAL FIRE funds Santa Cruz RCD for vegetation treatments on 165 UCSC acres.

Agency

University of California, Santa Cruz

NAICS

115310 - Support Activities for ForestryView NAICS

Place of Performance

Santa Cruz, CA

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Documents

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8GT24603 - NOD - RCD Santa Cruz

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PostedAug 13

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyUniversity of California, Santa Cruz

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Organization / Agency

University of California, Santa Cruz

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Contacts

Shannon JohnsonStaff Chief

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+1 (555) 000-0000

Laurel BardForest Health Project Manager

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+1 (555) 000-0000

Erika CarpenterPrincipal Environmental Planner

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Full Description

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Prevention (CAL FIRE) is providing funding to help implement treatments on State Responsibility Area (SRA) lands on the University of California Santa Cruz (UC Santa Cruz), immediately northwest of the city of Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County. UC Santa Cruz has prepared a Project-Specific Analysis (PSA) and addendum for the project as a later activity covered by the California Vegetation Treatment Project (CalVTP) Program Environmental Impact Report (PEIR) for the UC Santa Cruz Wildfire Vegetation Management Project, which entails implementation of vegetation treatments on up to 2,017 acres; CAL FIRE is providing funding to the Resource Conservation District of Santa Cruz County to implement treatments on up to 165 acres. The proposed treatment types (WUI Fuel Reduction, Fuel Break, and Ecological Restoration) and treatment activities (manual thinning and mastication) are consistent with those evaluated in the CalVTP Program EIR and the writ of mandate issued by the Superior Court of San Diego on November 14, 2025 in California Chaparral Institute and Endangered Habitats League v. Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, and pursuant to PRC § 4483, have been designed to avoid type conversion in areas where chaparral and/or coastal sage scrub plant communities may be present. Maintenance treatments would involve the same vegetation treatment types and activities used in the initial treatments. The purpose of these treatments is to promote forest and watershed health, reduce fuel load, and demonstrate efficacy of climate beneficial prescriptions.