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Projects
Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)
The SOPA informs people of environmental analyses currently in progress or recently completed on the Forest pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Wilderness Planning Effort
Planning documents for the John Muir, Ansel Adams and Dinkey Wildernesses.
Sierra National Forest Current and Recent Projects
Developing Proposal
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ERFO-7S05 Road Repairs MP 12.83 - Stump Springs Road
Repair section of washed out road 40 ft wide, 150 ft long, and in some sections 40 ft high. Remove damaged culvert. Replace culvert and embankment. Apply base material and asphalt. Weed free wattles and silt fence to protect embankment from erosion.
Under Analysis
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Amendment of the Forest LMP Plan for Compliance with PGE Land Donation Conservation Covenant
Forest Plan amendment to commit to Conservation Covenant for the Wishon land donation from PG&E.
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Cavin-Reyes Easement
This project involves a FRTA Easement Permit & allows private landowners to rehabilitate & maintain a FS road & construct a very short section of new road on FS land, allowing controlled access on sum of the two short sections to access their lands.
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Graham Restoration Project
Fuel reduction, forest restoration, increase forest resilience and resistance to drought and inserts, and reduce likelihood of uncharacteristic severe wildfire.
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Kaiser East Restoration Project
help the project area to be more resilient to future drought, restore and preserve wildlife habitat to persist and to reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristic wildfire with all the associated damage that causes to resources
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Kelty Restoration Project
help these project areas to be more resilient to drought, restore and preserve wildlife habitat to persist and to reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristic wildfire
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Nutmeg Bridge Replacement
The project consists of replacing a bridge with a precast concrete slab and other associated parts. The bridge approach will be graded and the prior bridged demolished.
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Roundtree Fuelbreak
The proposed action is to establish, re-establish and maintain 368 acres of a historically used Roundtree Fuelbreak that originated as firelines from past wildfires in the area. This project is in Cooperation with local Cal Fire MMU Unit.
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Sequoia and Sierra National Forests Prescribed Fire Project
Implement a range of prescribed fire techniques across the landscape.
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Sierra Vista South Restoration Project
located along portions of the Sierra Scenic Byway and is north of Chilkoot Lake and south of Globe Rock.
Analysis Completed
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Gigantea Fuels Reduction and Restoration Project
. The project is designed to reduce the threat of wildfire to the McKinley Grove of giant sequoias.
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Red Mountain Off-Highway Vehicle Staging Area Toilet
Sierra National Forest (SNF) is proposing to construct a single vault toilet that will accompany an existing Off-Highway Vehicle (OHV) Staging Area that serves the Red Mountain OHV trail system on the High Sierra Ranger District (HSRD).
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Sequoia and Sierra National Forests Land Management Plans Revision
The Sequoia and Sierra National Forests propose to revise their land management plans as guided by the 2012 Planning Rule
Cancelled
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"007" Motorized Trail Project
The project will develop needed social, economic and natural resource impacts and information to determine the purpose and need for the popular user defined "007" route to establish it's designation as a trail.
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Bass Lake Toilets (Granite Creek and Nelder Grove Campgrounds)
Decommission (remove) existing toilets, install new accessible toilet. Granite Creek Campground will remove one 'single' toilet and replace with one 'single' toilet. Nelder Grove Campground will remove two 'double' toilets and replace with one 'do
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Concessionaire Permit Extension
Amend existing permit to extend two years for concessionaire permit.
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Doublegate/Lone Sequoia/Timberloft Prescribed Burns - NEPA Review
This project has been cancelled. This project is not going forward.
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Dutch Soda Roadside Hazard Abatement Project
This is a project consists of hazard tree removal along sections of forest roads: 4S81, 4S81M, 6S66X, 6S539, and 7S35. This road system is the Scenic Byway and roads lead to recreation areas such as trail heads and campgrounds.
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Ely, Balsam, and Bolsillo Creek Diversions Infrastructure Improvement Project
Evaluate the effect of the implementation of the Southern California Edison Company's (SCE's) Ely, Balsam, and Bolsillo Creek Diversions Infrastructure Improvement Project on federally listed threatened, endangered, candidate, and proposed species.
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Ershim Meadow Bridge
To protect meadow resources by building a bridge over a perennial water crossing on a congressionally designated OHV Route (Dusy Ershim).
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Forest-wide Prescribed Fire Project
We had proposed to use prescribed fire (underburning and pile burning), up to 10,000 acres per year, to address fuel conditions throughout the Sierra National Forest.
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Goat Mountain Communications Site Lease Reissues (3)
Issue a Communications Use Lease to Ponderosa Telephone, AT&T, and Verizon Wireless to authorize existing communication facilities.
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Granite Creek Recreation Area Hazard Tree Abatement Project
This is a project entailing hazard tree along the listed roads including sections of forest roads: 4S43, 4S60, 4S60A, 4S61, 4S81, 4S81B, 5S30, 5S33, 5S47, 5S47A, 5S53Y, 5S065, 5S84, and 5S84A.
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Haslett Conservancy Project
This prescribed fire project is bordered by the 10S03 to the South and the 10S60 to the West, North and East.
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Home Creek Tract Water System Upgrade
Upgrade water system piping, install tank, and installation of a water flow meter to meet state regulation.
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Huntington Basin Project
The purpose of this project is to minimize the risk of uncontrolled fire on the landscape and improve tree vigor and health in the Huntington Basin while maintaining a visually appealing and undeveloped appearing landscape.
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Issue Easement for Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line and Indian Flat Substation
Issue an Easement for approximately 10.4 miles of the Exchecker-Yosemite 70Kv Transmission Line located on the Sierra and Stanislaus National Forests, and the Indian Flat Substation located in the Merced River Canyon in Mariposa County, California.
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Miami Fuels Reduction
Fuels reduction in the Miami Creek motorcycle recreation area.
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Musick Mountain and Mammoth Pool PGE Pole Installation
Installation of two 25 - 30 feet tall poles to support solar powered weather stations on Musick Mountain and Mammoth Pool to allow PGE to monitor weather conditions to manage their facilities to prevent fire.
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Pacific Gas and Electric Company Electric Line Facilites Permit Reissue (aka Holdover)
Reissue expired or soon to be expired permits to various (33) PGE electric line and associated access roads.
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Ponderosa Telephone Company San Joaquin Experimental Range Project
Install approximately 7424'of buried telephone cable inside a conduit to serve the San Joaquin Experimental Range. Related facilities would include pedestals and above ground warning markers.
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Priority Watershed OHV Route Restoration Project Upper Big Creek and South Fork Willow Creek
Project has been cancelled. Project is not going forward.
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Railroad Restoration Project
Removal of roadside hazard trees, recover the economic value of fire-killed/ fire-damaged trees (collectively hereafter, fire-affected), and re-establish forested conditions.
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SCE Dinkey Pole Replacements
SCE as 4 deteriorated poles within the Dinkey Fisherman's Picnic area that need to be replaced.
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SCE Integrated Vegetation Management, Big Creek-Rector 220 kV Transmission Line Right-of-Way
SCE has chosen a 1 mile corridor as a test area to explore a long-term approach to vegetation management within their authorized transmission corridor. Methods include both mechanical and chemical. Their goal is to avoid interruptions and wildfire.
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SCE Permit Renewal for Existing Distribution Lines
Renew a special use permit forest-wide for existing distribution lines 33 kilovolts and under on the Sierra National Forest
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Sierra NF Emergency Giant Sequoia Fuel Reduction Project
Removal of hazardous fuels to project giant sequoia groves from the threat of uncharacteristic wildfire
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Sierra NF Roadside Hazard Abatement Project
Abatement of hazardous trees along roadsides.
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Sierra Telephone Cedar Valley Fiber and Carrier Site
Install 2,640 feet of new conduit for fiber optic cable and develop a new carrier site in the Cedar Valley area.
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Special Use Permit Issuance for Phase 2 of the Ferguson Slide Permanent Restoration Project
This project has been cancelled.
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Try Me Placer Mining Project
The proposal includes mining gold bearing gravels along 1500 feet of channel, setting up a camp and storage area, diversion of water around the mining operation, constructing a sediment pond and small earthen dam to pond water and reclamation.
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West Chiquito Ecological Restoration Project
This project is ON HOLD due to a recent fire.
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Yosemite Forks Estates Mutual Water Company Special Use Permit Renewal
Reissue a Special Use Permit for a residential water supply line (12" or less pipeline), forless than 1 mile across Natioanl Forest System lands on the Bass Lake Ranger District of the Sierra National Forest
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.
Alerts & Warnings
- 05-15-00-24-27 SNF Rec Site Road Trail Closure Order
- 05-15-00-24-24-SNF Fire Restrictions Termination
- 05-15-52-24-26 SNF Courtright Reservoir Area Closure
- 05-15-52-24-19 SNF Basin Fire Closure Termination
- 05-15-00-24-09-SNF Wilderness Campfire Restrictions Order
- 05-15-00-24-07-SNF Wilderness Use Restrictions Order
- 05-15-00-24-05-SNF Food Refuse Storage Order
- 05-15-00-23-31-SNF Parking Limits
- 05-15-00-23-30-SNF Camping Limits
- 05-15-00-23-27-SNF-Wilderness Food Refuse Storage