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Dragoon Fuels Reduction

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The Dragoon Fuels Reduction Project is a vegetation treatment initiative conducted by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection near the community of Sonora in Tuolumne County, California, targeting approximately 138 acres of oak woodland affected by the 2021 Washington Fire. The primary objective is to reduce hazardous fuel loads by treating regrowth along existing fire control lines and establishing shaded fuel breaks adjacent to residential areas and the Dragoon Gulch walking trails. The project area features interior live oak as the dominant overstory species, with scattered gray pine, ponderosa pine, and California black oak, while the understory includes manzanita, toyon, chamise, poison oak, blackberry, and French broom. Treatment methods include mastication using tracked tractors, chipping, hand cutting, piling, and prescribed burning to eliminate surface and ladder fuels, with special care taken to retain live oak sprouts within control lines to establish fire-resilient stand conditions. Residual trees will be maintained at a spacing of 25 to 30 feet between stems and pruned to a height of 8 to 10 feet above ground level, while dead trees will be removed and processed on-site. Masticated and chipped materials will remain on the ground to aid erosion control, and brush aggregations may be preserved where tree retention is not possible. All work within 25 feet of Dragoon Gulch trails will be performed manually using chainsaws and hand tools to minimize environmental disruption. The project operates under a categorical environmental exemption under California Code of Regulations Title 14, Section 15304, affirming compliance with protections for watercourses, cultural resources, and sensitive species. Activities are focused on creating a vegetation structure resistant to high-intensity wildfires and reducing fire behavior through strategic fuel reduction. The lead agency contact is Roger Petersen, Forester II at CAL FIRE’s Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit, though no formal contracting vehicle, financial value, period of performance, or solicitation number is specified in the available documentation, indicating this is a forecast notice rather than an active procurement.

General Info

CAL FIRE reduces hazardous fuels on 138 acres near Sonora using mastication, burning, and hand tools to enhance fire resilience and protect trails.

Agency

California Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of

NAICS

561730 - Landscaping ServicesView NAICS

Place of Performance

Sonora, CA

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NONE

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NOE Dragon Fuels Reduction Project Tuolumne County

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PostedOct 9

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyCalifornia Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of

Contacts1 person available

OfficeN/A

Organization / Agency

California Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of

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Contacts

Roger PetersenForester II

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+1 (555) 000-0000

Full Description

The proposed project will reduce hazardous fuel loading in strategic locations near the community of Sonora. The project will reduce shrubs growing in control lines constructed during the Washington Fire in 2021 and will remove large wind rows of brush adjacent to old control lines. Additionally, hazardous fuel loading will be reduced by creating shaded fuel breaks adjacent to control lines and adjacent to residential areas. The project area is approximately 138 acres in size. The project area ranges in elevation from approximately 1,785 to 2,400 feet above sea level. Vegetation at the site would best be described as oak woodland with dense brush. Overstory tree species consist primarily of interior live oak with scattered gray pine, ponderosa pine, and California black oak. Understory species consist of manzanita, toyon, chamise, poison oak, blackberry and patches of French broom. The project area contains dozer lines constructed during the Washington Fire of 2021. Manzanita, toyon and live oak are regrowing in the control lines and range from 18-inches to four-feet in height. Some live oak sprouts within old control lines will be retained to create a shaded fuel break condition. Surface and ladder fuels will be reduced or modified by mastication, chipping, or by hand cutting, piling and burning. Mastication may be conducted by a variety of track laying type tractors. Wind rows of brush created during the Washington Fire may be masticated or piled for burning with an excavator. Hand work for chipping, as well as piling and burning or lopping and scattering will be conducted by hand crews using chainsaws and other hand tools. Work within 25-feet of Dragoon Gulch walking trails will be conducted by hand. Trees less than 12-inches in diameter at breast height (dbh), surface fuels and ladder fuels will be treated to achieve a target residual tree spacing of 25 to 30-feet between stems. In areas where no trees are available for retention, aggregations of brush may be retained. Residual trees will be pruned to a height of approximately 8 to 10-feet above ground level. Dead trees of any size may be felled and chipped, piled and burned, or masticated. Masticated or chipped material will be left on site. The reduction in vegetation will create a shaded fuel break condition that will minimize fire behavior and create a stand structure that is resistant to stand replacing fires.