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Dead trees on BLM lands, emergency roof repairs come before Calaveras County board
From the Union Democrat, January 9, 2019... Dead and dying trees, some of them left over from the 2015 Butte Fire that scorched 110 square miles of Calaveras County more than three years ago, and emergency repairs to leaking skylight structures on roofs of government...
Meadow Restoration on Three Final Off Highway Vehicle Routes Completes Corrective Work on Forest Travel Management System
U.S. Forest Service Eldorado National Forest 100 Forni Road Placerville, CA 95667 530-622-5061 www.fs.usda.gov/eldorado News Release For Immediate Release October 29, 2018 Media Contact: Jennifer Chapman (530) 957-9660 jenniferachapman@fs.fed.us...
New CFLRP 2018 Fact Sheet
Hello everyone, We have two good pieces of news and updates to share on the CFLRP front: As you may have seen, CFLRP was funded at its fully authorized $40 million level in the FY2018 omnibus appropriations bill that was passed and signed on March 23. If you have not...
Stewardship Contracting: How the Forest Service Partners with the Public in Forest Restoration
Stewardship contracts and agreements have become an important implementation mechanism through which the USDA Forest Service directly engages the private sector and various segments of the public in the management of the National Forests and Grasslands. To examine how...
2017 Cornerstone Annual Report Now Available
The 2017 Annual Report for the Cornerstone Project is now available at the link: Cornerstone_FY17_Annual Report_signed 12012017
Little Hoover Commission Report on Forest Management
Study Description (read the full study here) For this study, the Little Hoover Commission reviewed the state’s forest management in response to the tree mortality crisis in the Sierra Nevada. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) reported in December 2017 that...
Field Trip to Irish O’Manual — May 31st
The ACCG Planning Group met on 31-May-2017 at the Calaveras Ranger District, Hathaway Pines. The main topic was the District’s Fire Prevention Program and included site visits to the Irish/O’Manuel Fuel Break and a Tree Mortality mitigation operation on its...
CFSC June 2017 Newsletter
New issue of California Fire Science Consortium Newsletter, including a new research brief on Parsing Ecosystem Responses: Divergent Fire-Climate Patterns for California Landscapes. Read full newsletter: Click Here
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