Tehama East and Tehama West Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update 2017 Report to the Tehama County Board of Supervisors and CalFire Tehama-Glenn Unit Prepared by Resource Conservation District of Tehama County 2 Sutter Street, Suite D Red Bluff, California 96080 April 2017 Through funding provided by the Tehama County Board of Supervisors and the Resource Conservation District of Tehama County TABLE OF CONTENTS ACRONYMS ............................................................................................................................ VIII EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ........................................................................................................ IX PROJECT BACKGROUND........................................................................................................ 1 Planning Process Overview ......................................................................................................................................... 1 Planning Methodology ................................................................................................................................................ 1 Countywide Fire Plan Base Map ................................................................................................................................ 3 Environmental Review ................................................................................................................................................ 3 Categories Used to Rank Recommended Projects .................................................................................................... 3 Priority Projects Summary ......................................................................................................................................... 4 FIRE PLAN AREA AND PLANNING UNIT DESCRIPTIONS ............................................. 5 Location, Geographic and Environmental Conditions ............................................................................................. 5 Updated Planning Unit Descriptions .......................................................................................................................... 5 Cottonwood-Beegum Creeks Planning Unit (652 Square Miles) ............................................................................. 6 Reeds Creek Planning Unit (80 Square Miles) .......................................................................................................... 7 Red Bank Creek Planning Unit (181 Square Miles) ................................................................................................. 8 Elder Creek Planning Unit (200 Square Miles) ........................................................................................................ 9 Thomes Creek Planning Unit (588 Square Miles) .................................................................................................. 10 Sacramento River Corridor Planning Unit (61 Square Miles) .............................................................................. 11 Battle Creek–Manton Planning Unit (284 Square Miles) ...................................................................................... 12 Paynes-Antelope–Hwy 36E Corridor Planning Unit (250 Square Miles) ............................................................. 13 Central–Cohasset Planning Unit (736 Square Miles) ............................................................................................. 14 COUNTYWIDE COMPLETED, IN PROGRESS, AND PLANNED/PROPOSED FIRE AND FUELS MANAGEMENT PROJECTS ........................................................................... 15 Countywide Completed Efforts ............................................................................................................................... 15 CalFire Tehama-Glenn Unit Strategic Fire Plan ................................................................................................. 15 Tehama East and Tehama West Community Wildfire Protection Plan Update 2017 (Rev. 04‐10‐2017) I CalFire Wildland Fire Pre-Plan........................................................................................................................... 15 RCDTC Tehama West Fire Plan and Tehama East Community Wildfire Protection Plan ................................. 15 Fire Hazard Reduction Coordination with Tehama County Public Works and Cal Trans .................................. 16 Livestock Production/Vegetation Management Demonstration Project ............................................................. 16 Countywide In Progress Efforts .............................................................................................................................. 17 RCDTC Chipper Program ................................................................................................................................... 17 CalFire Vegetation Management Program and Related Vegetation Treatment Projects .................................... 17 Table I. Vegetation Management Program ......................................................................................................... 18 Proposed, Completed and Planned Fuels Projects .............................................................................................. 18 CalFire Cal Mapper Program .............................................................................................................................. 19 Ponderosa Way Fuels Reduction Plan/Strategy and Coordination of Ponderosa Way Road Maintenance and Vegetation Management Projects ....................................................................................................................... 19 Roadside Fuel Treatments on County Roads in Western Tehama County’s State Responsibility Area ............. 20 Table II County Roads Proposed for Roadside Fuel Treatments ........................................................................ 20 I-5 Fuel Break ..................................................................................................................................................... 21 Annual Maintenance/Improvement of Pellows Road ......................................................................................... 22 Fuel Treatments Permit Coordination Program .................................................................................................. 22 CalFire/Tehama County Fire Defensible Space Inspections ............................................................................... 22 Countywide Planned/Proposed Efforts .................................................................................................................... 23 Fire Hazard Reduction Coordination with PG&E............................................................................................... 23 Fuel Hazard Reduction Coordination with AT&T .............................................................................................. 23 Development of Sufficient Water Storage, Handling, and Delivery Systems throughout Western and Eastern Tehama County ................................................................................................................................................... 23 TEHAMA WEST COMMUNITY WILDFIRE PROTECTION PLAN COMPLETED, IN PROGRESS, AND PLANNED FIRE AND FUELS MANAGEMENT PROJECTS .......... 24 Cottonwood-Beegum Creeks Planning Unit ............................................................................................................ 24 Completed Projects in Cottonwood-Beegum Creeks Planning Unit ....................................................................... 24 Project CO-1 Sunflower Coordinated Resource Management Plan Fuels Projects ............................................ 24 Project CO-2 Elkhorn Ridge Fuel Break ............................................................................................................ 25 Project CO-3a Hammer Loop Fuel Break – Phase I ........................................................................................... 25 Project CO-3b Hammer Loop Fuel Break Follow Up - Phase II ........................................................................ 25 Project CO-4 Raney Peak South and Tedoc Mountain-Raney Peak Fuel Break ................................................ 25 Project CO-5 Pattymocus Fuel Break ................................................................................................................. 26 Project CO-6 R Wild Horse Ranch Tank Installation ........................................................................................ 26 Project CO-7 Cottonwood Creek Non-Native Plant Removal and Native Vegetation Improvements Project ... 26 Project CO-8 Benson-Bassler /Quail Ridge Fuel Break ..................................................................................... 26 Project CO-9 R Wild Horse Ranch Fuel Break .................................................................................................. 27 Project CO-10 Quail Ridge Water Storage Project ............................................................................................. 27 Project CO-11 Lake California Multi-Hazard Emergency Evacuation Plan ....................................................... 27 Project CO-12 Lake California Drive Road Vegetation Treatments ................................................................... 27 In Progress Projects in Cottonwood-Beegum Creeks Planning Unit ...................................................................... 28 Project CO-13