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SOPA Reports
The Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) contains a list of proposed
actions for Eldorado National Forest that will soon begin or are currently undergoing environmental
analysis and documentation. It provides information so that you can become
aware of and indicate your interest in specific proposals. We encourage your
early and ongoing involvement in any proposals of interest to you.
Vegetation treatment of surface and ladder fuels on approximately 4,000 acres of plantations and natural stands near Chaix Mtn. on the Georgetown RD. Treatments include mastication, underburning, commercial and precommercial thinning, tractor piling,
This project seeks to reduce the number of dead and dying hazard trees at key locations on the ranger district where public use is high, where infrastructure values are substantial, and in areas being managed for lower hazardous fuel conditions.
Proposal to issue a 5-year special use permit to AT&T for operating & maintaining a buried telephone line on land recently acquired by the US Forest Service. This line will be included under a phone line master permit when that permit is re-issued.
This project provides for fiber facilities for a future AT&T switched Ethernet service for Booth Creek Resort Properties at 1111 Sierra At Tahoe Road, Twin Bridges, CA 95735, within the existing AT&T South Lake Tahoe Tamarack Wire Center (TB92).
The project would replace a bridge that was damaged by the Caldor fire in 2021, restoring vehicle passage across Alder Creek along Alder Creek Road (11N46).
Re-issue special use permit that authorizes an approximately 12-acre fenced pasture located off of Mud Lake Road (17E24)for grazing of up to eight horses.
Road repairs along the Carson Emigrant National Recreation Trail (17E24), Hungalelti Ridge Trail (16E26), and the Long Valley Trail (17E28). Change the vehicle use designation on the northern end of the Long Valley Trail at Mud Lake.
Amend LRMP to recognize the 5 parcels of lands donated from PG&E, totaling approximately 1,335 acres were donated to provide permanent protection of the natural resources.
Amend PG&E's Master Special Use Permit to include the installation, use, and maintenance of a remote weather station at Bald Mountain. The weather station would be mounted on a wooden pole and be solar powered. Project area is smaller than 0.1 acre.
Replace 3 existing stream crossings with crossings designed to allow aquatic species passage at South Wallace Canyon, Sailor Ravine, and Plum Creek (10N20YA).
The project would upgrade approximately 10,350 linear feet of an existing, subsurface electrical line to a 12 kV loop system. The line extends from the resort base to Chair 4 on the back side.
Reconstruct three segments of the Barrett Lake 4wd Ttrail that cross meadows. Two segments would be reconstructed in place and one segment would be replaced by a reroute .27 miles in length, with the original trail segment to be restored.
Re-route a small section of the Barrett Lake Jeep Trail that goes through a wet meadow, and construct a bridge across Jones Fork Silver Creek to re-route the trail that currently crosses through the creek.
Develop Allotment Management Plan for the Bear River Grazing Allotment that will be incorporated into the term grazing permit and used to guide management of grazing operations, including issuance of a special use permit for use of Dufrene cow camp.
Improve landscape resilience to disturbance by treating select stands to reduce fuels, improve growing conditions for individual trees, and improve species composition on approximately 6000 acres of plantation and natural stands.
The project will plant approximately 200 acres (approximately 40,000 trees) along portions of the Mormon Emigrant Trail and Silver Fork Road within the Caldor Fire burn area.
In collaboration with tribal partners, this project will reduce fuels (via hand felling/thinning/piling, chipping) and re-establish native plants at culturally significant areas and sensitive plant sites that burned in the 2021 Caldor Fire.
Reduce fuels and improve forest health on 2,200 acres of natural stands and plantations. Treatments include commercial thinning, pre-commercial thinning, tractor piling, and understory burning.
Mastication and hand thinning of brush and small trees on approximately 1,500 acres (of which 750 acres is National Forest System lands) along the ridgeline above the South Fork American River, north of Highway 50 near Camino and Pollock Pines.
Understory burning is proposed for 28 units covering approximately 2,544 acres. The project would reintroduce fire back into fire-dependent ecosystems. Hand thinning using chainsaws, pruning,& hand piling may occur to prepare for prescribed burning.
Rehabilitation and/or removal of 2.6 miles of roads and skid trails surrounding Cody Meadow, contruction of a small scale plug and pond, planting of riparian vegetation in the meadow, and rerouting of road access to the outside edge of the meadow.
Combination of fuels reduction and reforestation actions. Fall dead trees and remove to mill or biomass facility, or pile and burn on site. Plant conifer seedlings. Chemically control shrubs. Burn fuel accumulations (broadcast and jackpot burns).
The Dru Barner Campground water system needs a new power source, filter system, water flow metering and security fencing for solar panels. The generator has failed and needs replacement. Iron accumulates in tank bottoms.
East Silver Lake Improvement District (ESLIA) has proposed to install a well within the East Silver Lake Recreation Residence Tract to provide water to the cabin tract.
The project would establish the Echo Lake SNO-PARK as a summer trailhead, add and modify road and other signs to direct trail users to the trailhead and construct a roughly 1,900 ft. natural surface trail connection between the trailhead and PCT/TRT.
A long-term special use permit would be issued to El Dorado County to construct and use an oversized two car garage to store a pumper truck & trailer to service the restrooms on the Rubicon Trail. The shed will also include a small emergency shelter.
Close 12 shafts and 25 adits from entry to reduce the health and safety threat to the general public, wildland firefighters, forest employees, and wildlife.
The Forest Projects Plan (Phase 1) is a landscape level forest, community, and wildlife habitat enhancement and protection project proposing non-commercial mechanical fuel reduction work, manual vegetation treatments, and prescribed burning.
Reduce hazardous fuels, improve forest health, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape on approximately 1,000 acres by commercially and precommercially thinning, understory burning, and reconstructing roads.
The proposed project is to implement near-complete gully fill. Road crossing would use a rock/soil fill with vegetation transplants to raise both the channel and floodplain to match the existing culvert invert/floodplain elevation.
Improve wetland habitat and restore the wetland function of the Francis Cow Camp area. The wetland has been diminished due past activities including OHV use, logging, & ranching. Actions include lodgepole felling, in-channel work and prescribed burns
Prescribed burning on approximately 8,700 acres to re-introduce fire in the General Sherman landscape to improve forest health, fire resiliency, and wildlife habitat. Hand thinning for aspen restoration and preparation for prescribed burning.
Improve forest health and resilience on approximately 2,600 acres through a combination of treatments, including understory thinning to reduce risk of insect and disease, increase stand vigor, and improve forest resilience to wildfire.
Watershed restoration activities, including placement of coarse woody material and/or rock in stream segments, blocking and stabilizing or decompacting non-system roads, and management of dispersed recreation sites.
Fuels reduction treatments along key ridges and roads on approximately 400 acres through mastication and hand thinning with follow up herbicide treatments within the General Sherman landscape area.
Reduce hazards & fuel accumulation within WUI by salvaging 154 acres of dead/dying trees & clearing 9 acres of brush within the 5,645 acre perimeter of the 2016 Trailhead Fire. Conifer reforestation would occur on 85 of the acres within project area.
The Forest Service was a cooperating agency, assisting the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in that Agency's geothermal leasing analysis and decision. The BLM issued a record of decision on 12/17/2008.
Cut and remove dead and imminent dying trees in areas of high mortality next to the Grizzly Flat community to reduce hazards along the property boundary and roadsides, and reduce fuels to minimize the chance of high-intensity wildfire.
Drill one to two new water wells, install a solar powered pump, solar panels, water storage tank, a building, and fenced enclosure to protect all of the items listed. Install new water lines to connect to the existing system.
Restore 3/4 mile of a low gradient tributary stream of Indian Creek in Indian Valley using a series of plug and ponds to enhance habitat for Sierra Nevada mountain yellow-legged frogs, Yosemite toad, willow fly catcher and other riparian species.
The project proposes a land for land exchange of three contiguous federal parcels managed by the USFS Eldorado National Forest, totaling 433 acres known as Iowa Hill, for a single non-federal parcel of 325 acres known as Gerle Meadow.
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has proposed gill netting and electrofishing to removing non-native brook trout from Island Lake in the Desolation Wilderness. This project will benefit the endangered Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog.
Vegetation removal through timber harvest, hand thinning and burning, mastication, piling and prescribed burning, meadow and aspen enhancement, stream improvement, and road improvement.
The project would rehabilitate eleven non-National Forest System (NFS) routes. This work will eliminate issues currently impacting watershed function. Project would restore 3.2 miles of road (equaling roughly 6.5 acres).
Mastication (primarily) or hand thinning to reduce fuels and fire hazard on 476 acres within the wildland urban interface. Follow-up burning and herbicide are proposed to maintain reduced fuel conditions and shift fuel types to grass/forb community.
The project was developed in response to the need to restore portions of the King Fire of 2014 and includes hazard tree removal, fuel reduction, salvage logging, reforestation, road improvements, watershed improvements, and research.
Connect Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District to the PG&E power grid at Salt Springs powerhouse & transmit power to the Kirkwood PUD ratepayers to replace desiel engine generators currently in use.
Modify the existing permit for Volcano Communication Group and upgrade the Verizon Wireless system at Kirkwood Mountain Resort, Chairlift #2. Remove existing equipment and install a 15-foot monopole with antenna, microwave dish, and radio equipment.
Stabilization activities along approximately one mile of trail, including approximately 11 retaining walls, 20 stone staircases of assorted elevation gains, one small access path reroute, and installation of multiple drainage structures.
Conduct stand density management for forest health on about 676 acres of ca. 40 year old pine plantations and 64 acres of adjacent natural stands using commercial and pre-commercial thinning. Around 10 miles of road reconstruction is proposed.
Develop Allotment Management Plan for the Neilsen (Morrison) Allotment that will be incorporated into the term grazing permit and used to guide management of grazing operations.
The Forest Service proposes to issue an authorization to Placer County Water Agency to conduct geotechnical testing for a proposal to construct the new Hell Hole Work Station.
Develop and analyze an Allotment Management Plan for the Old Pino Allotment that will be incorporated into term grazing permits and guide the management of rangeland resources.
Commercial harvesting of both live and dead hazard trees along approximately 70 miles of roads, within administrative sites, and within recreation sites on the Pacific Ranger District.
Construct an office facility and expand the current size of the Pacific Heliport to accomodate the National Type I Large Fire Support helicopter and National Type II initial attack helicopter and associated personnel.
Reduce hazardous fuels, improve forest health, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape on approximately 3,350 acres by commercially and pre-commercially thinning, understory burning, and reconstructing roads.
Conduct stand density managment for forest health on approximately 3,000 acres of 35 to 40 year old pine plantations using commercial and pre-commercial thinning. About 15 miles of road reconstruction is proposed.
Issue a 5 year special use permit to hold the 49er Enduro in the Elkins Flat OHV area and the Family Enduro in the Gold Note OHV area. The events would occur annually beginning in October 2011.
Replace 92 culverts and install two new water control structures on NFS roads within watersheds affected by the 2004 Power Fire. Majority of culverts will be upsized from 18 inches to 24 inches in diameter, replaced in kind, or sized accordingly.
Tiered to original decision, conduct fuel reduction treatments on approximately 2,500 acres of mixed conifer and red fir forests that burned at low to moderate severity during the 2004 Power Fire. Proposed areas required consultation with the USFWS.
Conduct fuel reduction treatments on approximately 3,500 acres of mixed conifer and red fir forests that burned at low to moderate severity during the 2004 Power Fire.
The project includes planting and release of seedlings. Portions of the area may require site prep before planting, including hand cutting, mechanical site prep, and herbicides.
Commercial and precommercial thinning with follow-up prescribed burning in plantations, mixed conifer and red fir stands to improve forest health and enhance watershed conditions.
Rock Creek Road, FSR 12N70, was heavily impacted by the Winter storms of 2022 and is currently impassable. The existing culvert will be replaced with a newly designed culvert and the road and slope will be stabilized.
This project would reroute 12 trail segments within the Rock Creek Trail System to protect resources and improve user safety. Estimated trail construction (12 segments)of 4.7 miles. Estimated trail obliteration (of 9 existing segments)of 2.5 miles.
Issue an easement to El Dorado County for the portion of the Rubicon Trail on National Forest System Lands from Wentworth Springs Campground to the Placer County Line. The easement will authorize installation of a bridge across Ellis Creek.
Amend the special use permit issued to Placer County Water Agency for the Middle Meadows Water Source Repairs to include a new well. This well will supply water to Middle Meadows Group Campground.
To create a connection between Sayles and Bryan trails that is suitable for bicycle use, and to realign the Pacific Crest Trail where bicycle use would be excluded.
Improve forest health, reduce hazardous fuels, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape on approximately 3,000 acres by commercially and precommercially thinning, understory burning, and reconstructing roads.
Create and maintain a fuel treatment network through a combination of thinning surface and ladder fuels and prescribed burning on approximately 3,000 acres in strategic locations in proximity to NFS system roads.
The trail and the Trail Head parking area is in need of repair and resurfacing. Installation of bathroom facilities. Removal of vegetation at the entrance of the parking area.
Permit for construction of a communication tower by Crown Castle USA Inc. within the Sierra at Tahoe permit boundary. The tower would be a 165%u2019 monopole located approximately 800 feet south of Parking Lot A in the Sierra at Tahoe base area.
Amend Land and Resource Management Plans for ten (10) Forests within the Sierra Nevada region by modifying Management Indicator Species (MIS) lists and associated monitoring strategies.
The Forest Service proposes constructing a halfpipe and three ski jumps (mounds) at the Sierra at Tahoe ski area in locations where these features are constructed annually out of snow.
Sierra-at-Tahoe is proposing hazard tree removal and new trail construction. The 2021 Caldor Fire caused damage to the area, affecting up to 80% of the vegetation.
Fuels reduction treatments, including understory thinning, removal of brush and small trees, on approximately 3,000 acres adjacent to the communities of Pollock Pines in the vicinity of Jenkinson Lake and Sly Park.
Issue special use permit to Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Install, operate, and maintain underground 4kV powerline & fiber optic communication line. Install cables in existing road. Store excess excavated material at existing stockpile site.
To implement corrective actions for Strawberry 4WD Trail to comply with the 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment Riparian Conservation Objectives Standard and Guideline 100 as it pertains to meadows in the Eldorado National Forest.
The Sugar Pine Foundation Proposes to plant 1500 Western White Pines and 1000 Red Firs near NFS recreation sites (trailheads and campgrounds) that were impacted by the Caldor Fire in 2021.
Removal of conifers less than 10 inches dbh, installation of rock riffles, log weirs, and placement of barriers to discourage cattle grazing and OHV use.
Commercial thinning, biomass removal, tractor piling and mastication on approximately 1,200 acres of forest lands generally within the WUI or planned SPLATS. Treatment of noxious weeds would be aimed at containing and controling.
Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement to analyze 42 roads and trails that cross meadows to determine there consistency with the ENF Land and Resource Management Plan and determine which routes to designate for public motorized vehicle use.
Existing barrier rock along Bear Creek Rd & Meadow Brook Rd would be replaced with larger boulders to protect part of Traverse Creek Botanical Special Interest Area recently impacted by vehicles. Damaged areas would be restored & revegetated by hand.
The project would involve forest thinning and fuels reduction activities on approximately 4,000 acres to improve forest health, enhance watershed conditions, and re-establish a sustainable landscape condition.
Following 2020 Fork Fire: roughly 644 acres of timber harvest (fire salvage)and fuel reduction activities. Other treatments include reforestation (218 acres), herbicide application, hazard tree removal, and transportation system management actions.
The camp is working to bring the outhouses (currently identified by EPA as large capacity cesspools) into compliance with EPA requirements as set forth in the Clean Water Act. The outhouses are no longer acceptable because they are not vaulted.
Create a fuel break on approximately 2418 acres (24 linear miles) in the immediate vicinity of 230kV and 69kV electrical infrastructure near Slab Creek Reservoir, Union Valley Reservoir, and Loon Lake.
Improve wildlife habitat and meadow hydrology by removing small conifer trees (<10" dbh) that are encroaching UC Cow Camp Meadow. Cut trees using chainsaws; then scatter and/or chip. Place few trees in stream channel to trap sediment.
Fuels reduction and stand improvement on approx. 1,500 acres within the wildland urban intermix. Incudes aspen restoration, visual management, commercial thinning, pre-commercial thinning, tractor piling, and understory burning.
Hazardous fuels treatment to improve wildfire resilience. Commercial thinning, biomass cutting, tractor piling, and pile burning on approximately 1,100 acres near Volcanoville. Includes areas of post-treatment prescribed fire and herbicide use.
Develop a forest wide treatment plan for noxious weeds and other invasive species. Treatments include a combination of chemical, mechanical, and manual control measures that are based on the biology of the target species.
Improve hydrologic function within 2 meadows which have been highly manipulated by past logging, ranching, roads and diversions. In-channel work would include 'Stage 0' gully fill and meadow surface reshaping techniques. Reroute a section of trail.
Modernize and enhance the recreation infrastructure and experience of visitors and residents alike with upgrades to parking, kiosks, trails, restrooms, campsites, and accessibility features commensurate with present-day usage.
