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Hunter Reservoir Fuels Reduction Project

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The Hunter Reservoir Fuels Reduction Project is a vegetation management initiative spanning approximately 409 acres in Calaveras County, California, located east of Hathaway Pines and Red Apple and south of Hunter Reservoir. The work targets a Sierra Mixed Montane Conifer and Oak Woodland ecosystem characterized by overstory species including California black oak, gray pine, ponderosa pine, and various live oaks, alongside a dense understory of manzanita, ceanothus, toyon, blackberry, and poison oak. The primary objective is to reduce hazardous fuel loading to protect critical infrastructure, private residences, and nearby communities within the Wildland Urban Interface by creating a shaded fuel break that mitigates the risk of crown fires. Treatments include mastication, chipping, hand or machine cutting, piling, and prescribed burning to remove surface and ladder fuels, with live trees up to 12 inches in diameter at breast height subject to thinning. Residual trees will be spaced 25 to 30 feet apart between crowns and pruned to a height of 8 to 10 feet above ground to eliminate ladder fuels; dead trees will be felled and removed via chipping, piling, or mastication, with masticated material left on-site for erosion control. The project follows CAL FIRE wildland fire mitigation best practices and qualifies for a categorical exemption under CEQA Section 15304 for minor land alterations. The project is administered by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, with Roger Petersen, Forester II of the Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit, serving as the primary point of contact. While the initiative includes detailed operational specifications, including targeted crown spacing, pruning heights, and material disposition protocols, no formal contract clauses, pricing data, evaluation factors, or delivery schedules are provided in the available documentation. The solicitation is classified as a forecast notice with no solicitation number, contract value, or award mechanism specified, indicating it is an informational posting rather than a binding procurement document. Inspection and acceptance will occur on-site in the project area under CAL FIRE oversight, with compliance based on achieving the prescribed ecological outcomes rather than formal technical standards. The absence of FAR clauses, payment details, accounting codes, or offeror certifications confirms the materials serve as a project description and environmental review notice, not a complete contract or solicitation package.

General Info

Vegetation management to reduce fire risk across 409 acres in Calaveras County using thinning, pruning, and prescribed burning.

Agency

California Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of

NAICS

115310 - Support Activities for ForestryView NAICS

Place of Performance

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Hunter Reservoir Fuels Reduction Project Notice of Exemption

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PostedOct 15

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Organization & Contact Information

AgencyCalifornia Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of

Contacts1 person available

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Organization / Agency

California Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of

Office AddressN/A

Contacts

Roger PetersenForester II

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+1 (555) 000-0000

Full Description

The proposed project is just east of the communities of Hathaway Pines and Red Apple, CA and south of Hunter Reservoir in Calaveras County. This project will reduce hazardous fuel loading across properties in the vicinity of Saddle Road, Canyon View Drive, Sunset Point, and Ponderosa Park. The project area is approximately 409 acres in size. The project area ranges in elevation from approximately 2,800 to 3,500 feet above sea level and consists of varied topography with slopes ranging anywhere from less than 10% to over 60%. The objective of the project is to reduce the current build-up of understory fuel loading on these parcels to protect local resources such as the Utica Power and Water infrastructure, private residences, and communities in the Wildland Urban Interface. The current site conditions consist of overstory vegetation that would best be described as Sierra Mixed Montane Conifer with some Oak Woodland inclusions and a dense, overgrown understory and ladder fuel component. The overstory tree species consist primarily of California black oak, gray pine, ponderosa pine, canyon live oak, valley oak, blue oak and interior live oak with an understory of manzanita, ceanothus, toyon, yerba santa, blackberry and poison oak. The proposed treatments include initial and maintenance treatments reducing or modifying live trees up to 12-inches diameter at breast height (DBH), and surface and ladder fuels by mastication, chipping, or by hand or machine cutting, piling and burning. Mastication may be conducted by a variety of track laying type tractors. Work may be conducted by hand crews using chainsaws and other hand tools across all treatments, including piling and burning. Retained trees and vegetation will be targeted to achieve a target residual tree spacing of 25 to 30-feet between crowns to reduce the risk of crown fires. Residual trees may be pruned to a height of approximately 8 to 10-feet above ground level to decrease the amount of ladder fuels. Dead trees of any size may be felled and chipped, piled and burned, or masticated. Masticated material will be left on site. This proposed 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.