The goals and objectives of this fuels reduction project are to:treat 490 acres on tribal and private lands within the 1.2 million acre western klamath restoration partnership planning area with the…

The goals and objectives of this fuels reduction project are to:treat 490 acres on tribal and private lands within the 1.2 million acre western klamath restoration partnership planning area with the following treatment types and acreages: manual thinning (240 acres), RX fire (250 acres). Within the manual thinning category, treatments will include fuel break construction, hand line construction, pullback, LOP and scatter, and hand piling. RX fire treatments will include pile burning, jackpot burning, black lining, and broadcast burning. The western klamath restoration partnership planning area is located along the middle section of the klamath river in eastern humboldt and western siskiyou counties. This area is approximately 95 public lands managed by the klamath and six rivers national forests (USFS), with 5 in private, state and tribal ownership. This project will occur on private and tribal lands within the western klamath restoration partnership planning area. This project is centered in disadvantaged communities and benefits under-resourced communities. The communities in the planning area are underrepresented due to being low income, communities of color, as well as ultra-rural. The planning area is low income as defined by census tracts (6093000500 and 6093000800). The project also encompasses climate vulnerable communities as defined by the california governors office of planning research and experience heightened risk and increased sensitivity to climate change and have less capacity and fewer resources to cope with, adapt to, or recover from climate impacts. Habitat types include mixed conifer and hardwood forests, meadows and riparian habitats, and diverse shrub dominated habitats. Our region has the highest diversity of conifers in the world, and has been severely impacted by fire exclusion over the past century. Project areas include habitat for the northern spotted OWL, pacific fisher, humboldt marten, willow flycatcher, spring chinook salmon, gray wolf, and other threatened and endangered species, as well as recovering species such as roosevelt ELK.