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Building Fire Resiliency in CA Coast Range

Year Awarded: Fiscal Year 2021

USDA Funding: $4,922,216.00

Partner-Contributed Funding: $7,031,761.00

Project Timeline: 2021-2026

Conservation Program Funded: Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP): Land Management 

California Counties: Colusa, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo Counties

Lead Partner: Rebuild North Bay Foundation

Collaborating Partners:

  • Clear Lake Environmental Research Center

  • Colusa County Resource Conservation District

  • Gold Ridge Resource Conservation District

  • Lake County Resource Conservation District

  • Mendocino County Resource Conservation District

  • Napa County Resource Conservation District

  • Solano County Resource Conservation District

  • Sonoma County Resource Conservation District

  • Yolo County Resource Conservation District


Project Summary

The Building Fire Resiliency in CA Coast Range RCPP Project is a conservation partnership that can provide financial and technical assistance to eligible agricultural producers and landowners in Colusa, Lake, Mendocino, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo Counties to implement land management practices that will minimize wildfire impacts on human life and property in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), restore natural fire regime patterns in undeveloped areas, and improve resource conditions following recent wildfires.

Project Goals

  • Restore historic fuel quantity and structure and reduce extreme wildfire behavior.

  • Manage vegetation to lower the intensity of fire and preserve wildlife habitat.

  • Maintain forest carbon storage which can be lost during a catastrophic wildfire with massive tree mortality.

Conservation Practices/Activities

  • 106 – Forest Management (Plan)
  • 165 – Forest Management (Design and Implementation Activity)
  • 159 – Grazing Management (Design and Implementation Activity)
  • 160 – Prescribed Burning (Design and Implementation Activity)
  • 314 – Brush Management
  • 315 Herbaceous Weed Control
  • 326 – Clearing and snagging
  • 327 – Conservation Cover
  • 338 – Prescribed Burning
  • 342 – Critical Area Planting
  • 350 – Sediment Basin
  • 351 – Water Well Decommissioning
  • 382 – Fence
  • 383 – Fuel Break
  • 384 – Woody Residue Treatment
  • 390 – Riparian Herbaceous Cover
  • 391 – Riparian Forest Buffer
  • 393 – Filter Strip
  • 394 – Fire Break
  • 410 – Grade Stabilization Structure
  • 412 – Grassed Waterway
  • 430 – Irrigation Pipeline1
  • 441 – Irrigation System, Micro-irrigation1
  • 460 – Land Clearing
  • 468 – Lined Waterway or Outlet
  • 472 – Access Control
  • 484 – Mulching
  • 490 – Tree/Shrub Site Preparation
  • 500 – Obstruction Removal
  • 516 – Livestock Pipeline
  • 528 – Prescribed Grazing
  • 533 – Pumping Plant
  • 548 – Grazing Land Mechanical Treatment
  • 550 – Range Planting
  • 560 – Access Road
  • 561 – Heavy Use Area Protection
  • 574 – Spring Development
  • 578 – Stream Crossing
  • 580 – Streambank and Shoreline Protection
  • 612 – Tree/Shrub Establishment
  • 614 – Watering Facility
  • 642 – Water Well2
  • 654 – Road/Trail/Landing Closure and Treatment
  • 655 – Forest Trails and Landings
  • 660 – Tree/Shrub Pruning
  • 666 – Forest Stand Improvement

To support vegetative plantings.                     

To support livestock grazing management.

 


NRCS Contact

Andrea Casey, RCPP Coordinator
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Davis State Office, California
Phone: (530) 304-2124
Email: andrea.casey@usda.gov

 

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