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Region 5 Samples of Enterprise Program Projects Update 2010

Cleveland National Forest Regional Office Project

Recreation Solutions Enterprise Heritage Stewardship Group TEAMS Enterprise Unit worked Unit joined the Cleveland National worked with Region 5 to complete collaboratively with the Klamath National Forest in developing the interpretation a regionwide inventory and Forest, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and signs that are now in place at the architectural context report National Marine Fisheries Service, and Mt. Palomar Observatory located in for administrative buildings Seiad Valley Fire Safe Council and the the heart of the Forest. constructed between 1905 and public to reduce fire hazard along the 1970. The inventory will provide heritage and facilities staff with Klamath River with the Thom-Seider a comprehensive listing of extant Project. This Healthy Forest Recovery administrative buildings throughout Act project is intended to reduce fuel the region. In compliance with the hazard on 29,000 acres near three at-risk National Historic Preservation Act, communities. The project is designed these products will help the staff to meet all applicable environmental identify and prioritize building standards in a complex and sensitive maintenance and retention with landscape. TEAMS Enterprise Unit their limited budget and staffing. was actively involved in all phases of planning this project. Palomar Observatory interpretive panel, “A Window into Deep Space”

Eldorado National Forest Vegetation Management Solutions The Cleveland National Forest plays designed “Quicksilv”, an application to help Lassen National Forest an important role in the study of deep ACT2 Enterprise Unit provided space. One of the essential ingredients the silviculturists get the information they for effective use of their powerful with sediment source inventory need while they are still in the field. telescope is a totally dark night sky. on 232 miles of road. ACT2 Quicksilv assesses, processes, and The forest protects that dark sky provided project design and calculates site-specific information from encroaching development. oversight, crew training, GIS quickly and can be used in tandem with Recent road improvement just below the support, data compilation and other national applications or as a stand- observatory presented an opportunity to a road risk analysis. Considering alone tool for rapid assessment. It can highlight that message with interpretive environmental risks, impacts, be loaded on most portable devices. signs. Three signs were installed at and consequences, ACT2 Although the application is geared a convenient wayside area offering prioritized specific sites and toward Region 5, it could be easily education and contemplation to the road segments for watershed expanded to use in other areas. many visitors who drive the road each condition improvements and year. restoration efforts.

In two field seasons, crews examined road-stream crossings, hydrologically connected cross- drains, and other road sediment sources. Crews came from Northern Resource Center (a non-profit local business providing job training for displaced timber workers Lassen National Forest - Using the Quicksilv Cleveland National Forest interpretive panel, under the Jobs-in-the-Woods application in the field to quickly gather program) and Eldorado National “Cycle of Fire” information for faster assessments Forest employees.

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Samples of Enterprise Program Projects

Los Padres National Forest Regional Office Projects San Bernadino National Forest

Above & Beyond (A&B) Ecosystems Recreation Solutions ACT2 Enterprise Unit is in a long- Enterprise Unit completed effectiveness Enterprise Unit is working term agreement with the San surveys of weed and erosion control with the Region 5 scenic Bernardino National Forest to provide measures put into place following two byway coordinator to complete data processing and analysis for the a corridor management plan fires that burned 179,000 acres on the Arrowhead Tunnels, a critical part of for a 41.2-mile section of the Los Padres National Forest. Members Yuba-Donner Scenic Byway using the Metropolitan Water District’s plan of A&B Ecosystems inventoried and Federal Highway Administration to distribute water for the greater reported on more than 50 miles of grant funds. The project Los Angeles basin. dozer line, helispots, roads, and other enlisted the help of California remnants of the Chalk Fire and the State University to lead a series As stewards for the monitoring data Basin/Indians Complex. of community collaboration collected by the Water District, workshops, whichincluded ACT2 provides the information to participation by community groundwater experts from the U.S. members, business owners, Geologic Survey for analysis. They Forest Service employees, and also provide analysis of surface and local government to help draft subsurface geology as it relates to the plan. groundwater conditions, all critical in determining impacts to surface ACT2 Enterprise Unit is flows and groundwater loss and the collaborating with Region 5, the Klamath National Forest, need for mitigation measures. and California Geological Survey to produce a set of guidelines Klamath National Forest that will govern geomorphology mapping across the State of Adaptive Management Services Dozer line on the Los Padres National Forest California, regardless of land (AMSET) worked with the Klamath ownership or jurisdiction. National Forest to provide coaching, Inyo & Sequoia National Forests The pilot Geomorph–Hayfork mentoring and preparation of burn Quadrangle Project is located plans. AMSET’s burn bosses held classes Trails Unlimited (TU) worked with on the Shasta-Trinity and Mendocino National Forests. on applying interagency prescribed the Inyo and Sequoia National Forests This unique project is designed fire planning and implementation to complete a challenging trail- to produce consistent mapping requirements consistently across crossing project that has been under methods, feature identification, the Forest. AMSET’s expertise in development for more than 10 years. definitions, and terminology, and fire behavior modeling, contingency The project had limited access and will establish a GIS digital data planning, and burn plan formatting funding. Access challenges were to model standard for both State enabled the Forest to expedite the burn complete the high-elevation (8,900 ft) and Federal lands. The Hayfork- plan review and approval process by project before snowfall and to transport Quadrangle will be published standardizing burn plan development. all materials, equipment and personnel jointly by California Geological by ATV or small tracked carriers. TU Survey and the Forest Service. AMSET also provided completed plans developed a modular design that could for the high complexity Sawyers Bar be transported and assembled rather Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project and than building the entire structure onsite. the moderate complexity Deep Timber In less than a month, TU transported Sale prescribed burn. These plans 126,000 pounds of materials and provided the Forest with approved completed the structure. implementation documents for the 2010/2011 prescribed fire season.

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Samples of Enterprise Program Projects

Lake Tahoe Basin VMS has successfully developed and Regional Office Projects Management Unit awarded the solicitation and are currently inspecting contract work Forest Service Grant Strategists Mountain Heritage Enterprise Unit to ensure high-quality vegetation Enterprise (FSGS) Unit is mapping that includes geospatial assisting Region 5 State and (MHEU) and TEAMS Enterprise Unit Private Forestry (S&PF) to archaeologists worked with the Lake analysis, vegetation classification, and administer grants provided Tahoe Basin Management Unit to conduct statistical analysis. to several private companies post-fire cultural resources surveys and within California. The grants originated from Congressional site damage assessments, and to prepare Shasta- earmarks and the American a report of the findings following the Recovery and Reinvestment Act 2007 Angora Fire. Quick action helped Safety Systems Enterprises (SSE) to retain sawmill infrastructure crews determine whether 11 existing and partnered with the National and build new power generation 8 newly found cultural resources were Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), facilities using woody biomass in danger of impending erosion. Crews the Federal Aviation Administration, from National Forest and agricultural lands. FSGS moved into the 1,638-acre burned area, and OSHA to investigate the 2008 assistance to S&PF brings relief finding the state of the sites to be either “Iron 44” aviation accident on the to understaffed program areas, stable, partially burned, or unburned. Shasta-Trinity National Forest. The and provides a welcome “face” In their 2009 final report, MHEU and tragic accident claimed the lives of of the Agency to grantees trying TEAMS archaeologists recommended that 9 firefighters and aircrew including to navigate the processes of the sites would be best avoided during the Region 5 helicopter pilot the Federal government. ecological restoration. inspector. On several occasions, AMSET is providing the Regional SSE has participated with NTSB as Office with a project coordinator a Forest Service representative in and COR for a CERCLA site investigating Forest Service accidents. within the Basin SSE provides the chief investigator Management Unit (LTBMU). who, in most cases, acts as the Meyers Landfill, a closed landfill “qualified technical investigator” of on National Forest System lands, is generating a groundwater the Forest Service team. Within a plume contaminated with 13-month period, SSE provided Region volatile organic compounds. 5 with a chief investigator for two The Forest Service and additional aviation mishaps which, in El Dorado County have been turn, helped enhance safety measures investigating groundwater for firefighters within the region and and site conditions since the across the nation. 1990s. An AMSET Hydrologist has provided support and COR services since 2006. Angora Fire post-fire survery, Lake Tahoe AMSET has worked with Basin Management Unit contractors, the LTBMU, El Dorado County, and the California Regional Water Tahoe National Forest Quality Control Board to Vegetation Management Solutions design and install a multilayer (VMS) is providing the Tahoe National impermeable cover to prevent Forest with contract development and additional leaching. AMSET is providing ongoing technical administration services to complete a support and COR services for Forestwide vegetation mapping effort. cover construction oversight, The resulting vegetation map will groundwater contamination assist the Tahoe with managing their investigation, and groundwater vegetation, meeting the requirements remediation design. of their land management plan, and Investigating a 2008 aviation accident, implementing the Forest Shasta-Trinity National Forest Plan Amendment.

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Fiscal Year 2010 Assistance to the Pacific Southwest Region

KLAMATH Pacific Southest Region 36 $1,124,171 This map of the Pacific SIX RIVERS MODOC Southwest Region outlines 14 $1,026,051 06 $133,067 the number of new projects and how much funding the LASSEN Enterprise Program collected SHASTA-TRINITY 22 $368,898 for work done on behalf of 68 $5,033,004 Region 5 units. PLUMAS $525,423 Projects MENDOCINO 17 26 $842,338 Enterprise Program Projects TAHOE in the Pacific Southwest Region $377,948 26 LAKE TAHOE BASIN • 498 Projects ELDORADO MGT UNIT • All 17 National Forests 21 $182,826 24 $759,871 • Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit STANISLAUS • Regional Office REGIONAL 16 $320,242 • $16,266,201 in funding C A L I F O R N I A 66 $2,309,757 INYO 16 $220,876 Legend

FOREST National Forest SIERRA 12 Number projects worked $150,000 Funding collections 18 $107,850 Forests not shown did not hire an enterprise unit for services in 2010

SEQUOIA 27 $532,478 LOS PADRES 26 $708,068

ANGELES 18 $759,645 SAN BERNARDINO 28 $825,804 CLEVELAND 23 $1,107,885

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