Willow Creek Tish Tang Trail Rehabilitation
Project Overview
Basics
Willow Creek Tish Tang Trail Rehabilitation
- Address Climate Change and Extreme Event Effects, Impacts and Vulnerabilities
- Integrate Traditional Ecological Knowledge in Collaboration with Tribes
- Prioritize Plans, Projects and Actions that Result in Long Term Sustainability of Jobs & Revenues
- Protect and Enhance Watersheds and Ecosystems that Provide Water Quality and Supply Benefits
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
- Work across Jurisdictional Boundaries to Achieve Common Objectives Effectively and Efficiently
NCRP RFFC Technical Assistance (DOC)
Deferred/Unfunded
The objective of this project is to rehabilitate the multi-use Tish Tang trail on Six Rivers National Forest land at Horse Linto Campground. Opening this trail will have a lasting positive impact on the community through improving wildfire defense, public health, forest health, and economic development through tourism. It will also create a framework to pursue more trail-building in the area. Currently, Willow Creek has very few sanctioned trails available to the public, and none for mountain biking. This project will support the Forest Service in adopting the existing Tish Tang Trail at Horse Linto by providing survey and design support.
2024
2025
2027
1/10/2025
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
Willow Creek Fire Safe Council is working with partners at the Lower Trinity Ranger District of the SRNF and a coalition of regional groups to officially adopt a well known user trail, Tish Tang, and explore the feasibility of building a wider trail system around Willow Creek. Tish Tang has been used by recreators and as a strategic handline to protect Willow Creek from wildfire danger, most recently during the 2022 SR Lightning Complex. During this effort, bulldozers were driven along the trail, decimating much of the singletrack.
Community groups have joined with regional mountain biking trail alliances to garner immense community support and volunteer engagement to redesign and rebuild this trail. We are requesting survey support for FS specialists to complete NEPA surveys on the Tish Tang Trail and/or design support for plotting an erosion resistant and sustainable trail. This TA will help our volunteers get boots on the ground to improve the health and safety of Willow Creek.
Solutions
Capacity - Technical Assistance, Ecosystem Conservation and Restoration - Post-fire Ecosystem Restoration
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
None
Project Size (Acres)
100
acres
Location
Trailhead for the downhill section of Tish Tang MTB trail.
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The project is adjacent to Hoopa Tribal Land and a Forest Service access road briefly crosses onto the Hoopa Valley Reservation. Partners are working on an MOU with the Hoopa Council and have verbal approval to pursue rehabilitation of the Tish Tang trail.
Humboldt County 5th district Supervisor Steve Madrone has helped initiate a conversation with Lower Trinity District Ranger Nolan Colegrove to make rehabilitation of the Tish Tang trail and development of future trails a priority for the Six Rivers NF.
Willow Creek is a disadvantaged community that could greatly benefit from the tourism opportunity that improving local trails could afford.
Organizations
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| Local and/or Political Support | Steve Madrone, 5th District Supervisor, Willow Creek Chamber of Commerce, Mountainbike Tribal Trail Alliance, Two Feathers, fdkj;f |
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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 |
| Community Health and Safety - # of projects | Project type: Firefighting readiness improvement | Not Provided |
| Jobs created or retained (FTE) | 0.1 | |
| Recreation and public access - # of projects | 1 count | |
| Technical Assistance - Type(s) of TA | Type of Technical Assistance: Project Design | Not Provided |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
No annual Project Benefit Performance Measure accomplishments entered for this Project.
Financials
Budget
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Reported Expenditures
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Project Types
Project Types
This project will rely on a coalition of local and regional nonprofit and governmental organizations that are passionate about the benefits of increased recreational opportunities around Willow Creek. The continued collaboration of these entities throughout this project will build capacity and a blueprint to repeat projects like this and build more trail systems around the area that benefit community health, wildfire preparedness, and economic development.
TA will provide technical expertise/resources not possessed by the project sponsor organization
Creating more recreation opportunities for locals and tourists around Willow Creek will benefit businesses in our rural community.
This project will engage the community by creating volunteer work days for trail building and recreating once the planning phase is complete.
Multi-use trail systems on public land have been shown to improve egress for both emergency services and fire suppression efforts. In fact, the ridge line Tish Tang Trail has been used repeatedly in fire suppression efforts to protect the communities on Patterson Road from wildfire approaching from the North. Rehabilitating this trail and creating more like it will create a more fire resilient forest in the vast, unstewarded public land around Willow Creek.
Project Details
Attachments
WC Tish Tang Trail Rehabilitation Application Supplement
- Uploaded On
- 11/1/2024
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- Word (DOCX)
- Description
- Application Supplement
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LOS - Two Feathers
- Uploaded On
- 11/1/2024
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- Organizations involved in the Willow Creek Trails Coalition wrote letters to Deputy Ranger Nolan Colegrove in order to get his support to prioritize rehabilitating Tish Tang Trail.
LOS - WC Chamber
- Uploaded On
- 11/1/2024
- File Type
- Description
- Organizations involved in the Willow Creek Trails Coalition wrote letters to Deputy Ranger Nolan Colegrove in order to get his support to prioritize rehabilitating Tish Tang Trail.
LOS - Steve Madrone
- Uploaded On
- 11/1/2024
- File Type
- Description
- Organizations and individuals involved in the Willow Creek Trails Coalition wrote letters to Deputy Ranger Nolan Colegrove in order to get his support to prioritize rehabilitating Tish Tang Trail.
LOS - MBTTA
- Uploaded On
- 11/1/2024
- File Type
- Description
- Organizations involved in the Willow Creek Trails Coalition wrote letters to Deputy Ranger Nolan Colegrove in order to get his support to prioritize rehabilitating Tish Tang Trail.
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