Mokelumne Amador Calaveras Forest Resilience Project

MAC ENF Record of Decision

Introduction

Explains the project was developed with the Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority, uses one joint EIS, and that each forest issues its own decision for its own lands.2

Selected Alternative

Selects Alternative 1 with one change: 172 acres near Upper Blue Lake in Yosemite toad critical habitat become prescribed fire with hand-only site preparation.2

Forest Thinning

Approves about 29,631 acres of thinning, with diameter limits of 20 inches in owl activity centers and 30 inches elsewhere, up to 35 for operability.2

Fuel Reduction

Approves about 23,388 acres of mechanical fuel reduction, including 6,441 acres in California spotted owl protected activity centers.2

Fuelbreaks

Approves 12,737 acres of shaded fuelbreaks, mostly up to 500 feet wide and up to 1,000 feet along Highway 88.2

Use of Herbicides to Maintain Fuelbreaks

Allows glyphosate and triclopyr on up to 300 acres per year to maintain fuelbreaks.2

Prescribed Fire

Approves 118,375 acres of prescribed fire, 52,620 as follow-up treatment and 65,755 as additional primary treatment, with annual acreage depending on staffing, budgets, weather and air quality.2