Mail Ridge Project, Forestry TA
Project Overview
Basics
Mail Ridge Project, Forestry TA
- Avoid Emissions via Land Management and Policies
- Conserve, Enhance and Restore Watersheds and Ecosystems that Support Biological Diversity
- Engage with Regional Partners to Inform High Quality Planning and Implementation
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Protect and Enhance Forest Based Carbon
NCRP RFFC Technical Assistance (DOC)
Completed
The project will advance planning of a multi-phased fuel reduction project identified as a priority project in the Humboldt County CWPP and other fuel reduction treatments along and adjacent to the crest of Mail Ridge, a prominent geographic feature in southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino Counties. The purpose of the project is to increase fire resiliency, protect nearby communities from fire risk, and make significant progress toward restoration of the traditional role of low intensity fire on the landscape.
2023
2023
2023
5/26/2025
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
Mail Ridge is a 54 mile long ridge in southern Humboldt and northern Mendocino counties located east of HWY 101 population centers. The intent of the project is to create a network of fuel breaks along the ridge, enhancing firefighter safety, ingress and egress, and habitat values while decreasing fire intensity along evacuation routes and providing anchor points from which to initiate backfiring and other fire suppression activities. HCRCD was previously awarded a TA assistance grant to scope the Phase 1 project and identify project treatments; RPF Larry Wilson efforts have yield preliminary mapping, landowner scoping meetings with CA State Parks, Humboldt Redwoods Co., landowner outreach and communications, and a potential grant application under development for the CAL FIRE Fire Prevention Grant Program. Additional TA is needed to continue project development activities and partnership building started under the first round of TA funding.
Solutions
Capacity - Technical Assistance, Community Health and Safety - Fuel Breaks, Fire Resilient Forests - Fuel Management
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
None
Project Size (Acres)
1984
acres
Location
Organizations
| Contract Manager | |
| Funder | |
| Partners | |
| Project Sponsor | |
| Local and/or Political Support | CAL FIRE HUU, Southern Humboldt FSC, Southern Humboldt Forest Health Collaborative, Humboldt County FSC, Fruitland Ridge Volunteer Fire Protection District, volunteer fire departments |
Contacts
| Contact | |
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| Additional Representative |
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| Authorized Contact |
Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Capacity Enhancement - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Capacity Enhancement - Type(s) of CE | Type: Technical Assistance | 1 |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | Activity focus: Capacity building | 1 count |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 0.1 | |
| Technical Assistance - Type(s) of TA | Type of Technical Assistance: Project Design | 1 |
| Technical Assistance - Type(s) of TA | Type of Technical Assistance: GIS/mapping | 1 |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
| Capacity Enhancement - # of projects | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units | |
| 1 | N/A | N/A | 1 | count | |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | count |
| Capacity Enhancement - Type(s) of CE | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type | Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units |
| Technical Assistance | 1 | N/A | N/A | 1 | number |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | number |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Activity focus | Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units |
| Capacity building | 1 | N/A | N/A | 1 | count |
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | count |
| Grant applications submitted - # of proposals | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units | |
| 2 | N/A | 2 | N/A | number | |
| Total | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | number |
| Grant applications submitted - dollar amount applied for | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units | |
| $5,400,000 | N/A | $5,400,000 | N/A | ||
| Total | $5,400,000 | $0 | $5,400,000 | $0 | |
| Grants received - dollar amount awarded | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units | |
| $7,038,205 | $6,204,325 | $833,880 | N/A | ||
| Total | $7,038,205 | $6,204,325 | $833,880 | $0 | |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units | |
| 0.1 | N/A | N/A | 0.1 | number | |
| Total | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | number |
| Technical Assistance - Type(s) of TA | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Type of Technical Assistance | Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units |
| GIS/mapping | 1 | N/A | N/A | 1 | number |
| Project Design | 1 | N/A | N/A | 1 | number |
| Total | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | number |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2023 | Total | |
|---|---|---|
| NCRP Technical Assistance (CA Dept of Conservation) | $15,000.00 | $15,000.00 |
| Grand Total | $15,000.00 | $15,000.00 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Project Types
Project Types
This project will build regional and local capacity to implement forest health and fire resilience projects by developing a project pipeline for what will likely be multiple phases of a Mail Ridge project.
Technical assistance from a registered professional forester fills a capacity gap in the sponsoring organization.
This project will increase community engagement and education on wildfire preparedness and forest health and fire resilience projects through the strong partnership with Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council, local Volunteer Fire Departments, and key partner Trees Foundation.
This project will improve forest health and reduce fire risk by reducing fuel loads and restoring of the traditional role of low intensity fire on the landscape.
This project is designed to improve firefighter safety and ingress and egress, while decreasing fire intensity along evacuation routes and providing anchor points from which to initiate backfiring and other fire suppression activities.
This project will help to conserve and enhance the watersheds in which it is located by reducing the area’s vulnerability to catastrophic wildfire, thereby protecting functions and habitats that support biodiversity, including the South Fork Eel, significant stands of old growth redwood, and oak woodlands.
This project addresses climate change effects and improves forest and community resiliency by mitigating heightened wildfire risk, building out a network of landscape-level features from which wildfires can be fought and contained, and ensuring that the region’s forests continue to sequester carbon into the future.
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HCRCD Mail Ridge TA Documents
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- 2/1/2023
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