Scott River Headwaters Forest Health, Fire Safety, and Water Quality Improvement Project
Project Overview
Basics
Scott River Headwaters Forest Health, Fire Safety, and Water Quality Improvement Project
- Address Climate Change and Extreme Event Effects, Impacts and Vulnerabilities
- Conserve and Restore Salmonid Habitats and Ecosystems
- Conserve, Enhance and Restore Watersheds and Ecosystems that Support Biological Diversity
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Collaboration with Tribes
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
NCRP IRWM Prop 1 Round 1 (DWR)
Implementation
The project will target specific, high priority actions that will provide fire safety for people and water delivery infrastructure, and improve water quality for the communities of Etna, Quartz Valley Indian Reservation and Quartz Valley, all economically disadvantaged communities, by reducing road inputs, augmenting large wood in streams and reducing fuel loads. Co-benefits of employment, climate resiliency and salmonid fisheries improvement will accrue.
2019
2021
11/26/2023
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
The project includes three components: Kidder Creek Road Restoration, utilizing existing road surveys, 10 road sites will be treated to reduce sediment production; Ruffey Gap Treatment Area, 65 acres of young, overstocked stands within a 200 foot ridge corridor will be thinned and, remove post-harvest slash and downed material from prior owner logging activities on 100 acres, materials will be slash ground or piled and burned; and Sniktaw Fuel Retreatment, overgrown shaded fuel breaks on 166 acres along Sniktaw Creek will be manually retreated with slash chipped or ground.
The expected project benefits include improved water quality, fire risk reduction to humans and City of Etna water system infrastructure and the ecosystem, climate change mitigation benefits, improved conditions for salmonids, communities and support for Tribal Cultural Values.
Solutions
Capacity - Tribal Capacity, Climate Action - Adaptation, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Tribal Ecocultural Restoration, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Water, Fire Resilient Forests - Fuel Management
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
None
Project Size (Acres)
331
acres
Location
Organizations
| Contract Manager | |
| Funder | |
| Partner | |
| Project Sponsor | |
| Local and/or Political Support | District 5 County Supervisor, City of Etna, Quartz Valley Indian Tribe, Scott River Watershed Council, Northern California Resource Center, EFM |
Contacts
Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Agricultural heritage preservation | Working land category: Forestry | 1 count |
| Avoided Costs | Cost category: Other | $120,000.00 |
| Community Health and Safety - # of projects | Project type: Fire hardening & defensible space | 1 count |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | Activity focus: Environmental improvement | 1 count |
| Fuels Reduction (area) | Treatment Type: Combined | 331 acres |
| GHG reduction - avoided/reduced emissions | Project type: Forest health | 14,224 metric tons |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 22 | |
| Water quality improved - # of projects | Project type: Sediment reduction | 1 count |
| Water quality improved - sediment reduction | 23,232 tons |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Agricultural heritage preservation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Working land category | 2022 | Units |
| Forestry | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Avoided Costs | ||
|---|---|---|
| Cost category | 2022 | Units |
| Other | $0 | |
| Total | $0 | |
| Community Health and Safety - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project type | 2022 | Units |
| Fire hardening & defensible space | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Activity focus | 2022 | Units |
| Environmental improvement | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Fuels Reduction (area) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Treatment Type | 2022 | Units |
| Combined | 0 | acres |
| Total | 0 | acres |
| GHG reduction - avoided/reduced emissions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project type | 2022 | Units |
| Forest health | 0 | metric tons |
| Total | 0 | metric tons |
| Honoring & incorporating Tribal priorities - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Units | |
| 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Units | |
| 0 | number | |
| Total | 0 | number |
| Water quality improved - # of projects | ||
|---|---|---|
| Project type | 2022 | Units |
| Sediment reduction | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | count |
| Water quality improved - sediment reduction | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | Units | |
| 0 | tons | |
| Total | 0 | tons |
| No accomplishments to report for: | |
| Year(s): | 2021 |
|---|---|
| Explanation: | no accomplishments reported |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IRWM Proposition 1 Round 1 (DWR) (Inactive) | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Grand Total | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 | $0.00 |
| Note: | No expenditures yet reported. |
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Project Types
Project Types
The fuel reduction component of this project will improve overall forest health.; Some of the fuel reduction will be accomplished using prescribed fire.
This project will improve forest health, reduce sedimentation from roads, and improve instream habitat while protecting the human community from catastrophic fire events.
The improvements to forest and watershed health this project implements increase climate resiliency.; Improving the forest by thinning reduces the chances of a catastrophic forest fire, which would release large amounts of GHGs.
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