Klamath River Community Fire Restoration Phase 2

Project treatments include fuel reduction and emergency hazard tree abatement/removal on approximately 569 acres along roads, ingress and egress points, and near habitable structures to provide for public safety from falling snags, safer ingress and egress of evacuating residents and responding emergency personnel. Treatments will focus on the removal of dead vegetation along the road edge and adjacent to structure. Treatments will include mechanical and hand removal of hazardous vegetation. All standing dead and dying hardwoods and conifers will be removed except for trees that do not pose a hazard and show wildlife use value. Mechanical operations will include the use of a masticator and chipping equipment, and manual treatments will include chainsaws, loppers or pruners, piling and burning. Removal of hazardous trees and fuels reduction will have a direct benefit to the life and safety of residents and travelling motorists in the area. All the rest of the trees, and activity fuels will be put into machine burn piles or chipped. Treatment areas will be reforested through the planting of conifer trees using hand tools. There is no selling, bartering, or trading planned as a part of this project. The value of the fuel treatments, both in terms of reduced fire behavior/intensity and in terms of impacts will produce long-term benefits. Live trees that do not pose a threat to people or property will be retained.