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Note: Not all projects may appear on map. See list below for complete list of projects with more information or documentation.
SOPA Reports
The Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) contains a list of proposed
actions for Mendocino National Forest that will soon begin or are currently undergoing environmental
analysis and documentation. It provides information so that you can become
aware of and indicate your interest in specific proposals. We encourage your
early and ongoing involvement in any proposals of interest to you.
Replace several permits with a single permit to cover occupancy, use, maintenance for ~15 miles of existing aerial and buried telecommunications lines.
Conduct hand site-preparation and conifer planting to reforest 43 acres within the 2008 Back Fire. This project covers a different area of the Back fire than the previous project of same name (PALS#32460)
The purpose of the project is to provide a safe transportation system to access key areas including: private property, communication sites, facilities and developed recreation areas.
A comprehensive river management plan (CRMP) is required by the Wild and Scenic River Act of 1968 for each segment to provide for the protection of the river values. The CRMP will focus on protecting the river's free-flowing condition & water quality
Maintenance to the Black Diamond Type Conversion, which would restore the type conversion to its former size while reducing the threat of catastrophic wildfire, improving wildlife and plant diversity, and increasing grazing capacity of the range.
This project proposes to build a new Work Center to house the Feather River Interagency Hotshot Crew (FRIHC) and one engine module displaced when the Brush Creek Work Center burned in the North Complex Fires, during 2021.
Improve meadow and surrounding area of Deer Valley through failed check-dam removal, rebuilding of buck-and-rail fence, removal of encroaching conifers, planting of willows, and light understory burn where applicable.
The purpose of this project is to provide a safe transportation system to access key areas including; private property, communication sites, facilities, and developed recreation areas.
Timber harvest, fuel treatments, forest disease treatments, reforestation to produce current saw timber and ensure long-term productivity of lands allocated to timber production; road maintenance for harvest-related traffic and erosion prevention.
Renew special use permits to hold 3 separate enduro events in the Fouts Springs Area. Events range from 60-100 miles and use existing designated motor vehicle routes. Participants range from 300-400.
Amend Forest Plan to allow the management of lightning ignitions for resource benefits outside of wilderness areas. Current Forest Plan direction allows such use only within Wildernesses.
Forest restoration treatment that reduces the risk/extent of insect/disease infestations, increase the resistance and resilience of stands to current and future infestations/epidemics, and promote timber production and improve wildlife habitat.
The Forest Service was a cooperating agency, assisting the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in that Agency's geothermal leasing analysis and decision. The BLM issued a record of decision on 12/17/2008.
Special Use permit to allow for the construction, operation, and maintenance of a radio vault and antenna tower for 2-way communication, in an existing radio repeater site.
(Cancelled due to low probability of foreseeable funding) Remove waste rock from adjacent streams, stabilize areas disturbed by mining activities, install surface drainage features in the access roads.
Various improvements to abate sanitation and resource damage problems associated with dispersed camping in the area of the vacant Grizzly Flat administrative site.
Improve public safety by removing hazardous trees within the Hammerhorn Campground and along roads within and leading to the project area, salvaging fire killed or fire-damaged trees, preparing the site for planting trees.
Provide the land owner with a roads special use permit making it a private road that will enable them to perform maintenance on the road to allow for access.
The purpose of the cameras is to aid in wildfire detections across the forest. Cameras would be located at High Glade and Anthony Peak Lookouts and on Goat Mtn on the Mendocino NF. Stand-alone systems will be utilized no ground disturbance required.
Re-issue a 10-year SUP for 1,300 ft of water transmission line on NFS lands. Water development exists and was previously permitted but that permit has expired.
Reissue a special use permit (SUP) authorizing private landowners to maintain a spring and pipeline that occurs on Forest Service land. The first permit issued was 5 for years and is now expired. The next permit will be for 20 years.
The Upper Lake Ranger district, Mendocino NF is proposing to decommission approx. 9.5 miles of roads within wilderness in order to meet the intent of wilderness legislation and policy and to improve watershed health.
The Forest Service proposes to repair the Upper Letts Lake Dam that was found to be structurally compromised after the 2018 Ranch Fire. Lake will be drawn down to existing coffer dam and Dam embankment, outlet, spillway, and stilling basin repaired.
Commercial thinning of 60-80 yr old plantations to reduce inter-tree competition and susceptibility to abnormal levels of bark beetle infestation. Stands are currently exibiting initial increases in bark beetle infestation levels.
The purpose of this project is to provide a safe transportation system to access key areas including: private property, communication sites, facilities, and developed recreation areas.
The purpose of this project is to provide a safe transportation system to access key areas including: private property, communication sites, facilities, and developed recreation sites.
Repair/replace failing culverts at two stream crossings. Replace culverts @ Eel River with a bridge or bottomless arch,and bottomless arch @ Trout Creek. Maintains road access and improves fish passage.
Salvage beetle-infested ponderosa pine trees that are dead and dying. Sanitize vulnerable stands to reduce tree stocking/density levels to reduce susceptibility to furhter beetle attack and spread.
Convert abandoned logging road to OHV trail. This was previously scoped as a component of the "Upper Deer Valley Road OHV Recreation Connectivity" proposal, which has been cancelled.
The project would use prescribed fire, manual and mechanical treatments to reduce fuel loads and mitigate future impacts of wildfire across National Forest System lands within the Mendocino National Forest, but outside of designated wilderness areas.
Re-establish native riparian vegetation along Middle Creek (upstream downstream and adjacent to Middle Creek Campground)by planting native plants and protecting it using fencing in order to promote stream bank stability and enhance habitat.
Dcommission 3 segments of OHV Trail #2 (~655 ft) to eliminate sediment discharge to E Fk Middle Creek; construct ~200 ft reroute that provides trail connectivity and protects water quality.
Hand removal of small concrete water supply dam from tributary of W Fk Middle Creek. The dam was abandoned as a water supply in 1987, but never removed. Removal will restore natural stream flow and hydrology.
Issue a 10-year special use authorization for 1,740 ft of 1 inch water transmission line from Shields Creek down to the NW corner of Miller/Ast property (co-owners). The waterline used to exist but burned in the North Pass Fire.
Reforest about 300 acres within the North Pass Fire that were deforested and require artificial regeneration to establish mixed conifer stands. Includes non-mechanical site preparation,planting native tree species, and follow-up release treatments.
Approve continued operation, maintenance, and use of existing distribution and transmission powerlines and infrastructure for Pacific Gas & Electric located within designated corridors on the Mendocino National Forest.
To predict weather conditions in the area and use this data in combination with other data sources to determine if fire risk and if there is a need to shut off power.
Establish a linear fuel beak approximately 5 miles long and brush approximately 1 mile of road to complement the current system of fuels treatments to improve the egress and ingress for fire service personnel and equipment in the event of a fire.
This project proposes removal of fire-killed and fire-injured trees to mitigate hazards posed by dead and dying trees, for recovery of economic value of fire-impacted timber, and for managing forest fuels.
Amend special use permits to set the expiration dates to coincide with the expiration dates of associated recreation residence authorizations due to expire in 12/31/2028
The United States Forest Service (USFS) proposes installing an 18-hole disc golf course (with baskets, tee pads, and interpretive signs) in the restored oak habitat section of the RBRA.
Hazard tree felling and removal is proposed to reduce public safety hazards along portions of certain roads, trails and facilities within nine national forests. We expect to complete three zone-level analyses and nine decisions.
Exterminate tamarisk infestation using chain saws to cut Tamarisk and expose the stumps for treatment with Garlon 4 with direct application. Follow-up monitoring and treatments will be required for 3-5 years.
Thin brush & trees, remove slash from around 10 to 12 identified rust-resistant sugar pine to protect from fire; police aborted cones to reduce insect damage of future cone crops; install sheet metal bands to prevent pilfering of cones by squirrels.
In response to a region-wide outbreak of mountain pine beetle, the Mendocino National Forest is proposing to apply the pesticide SPLAT Verb, a behavior disrupting pheromone called verbenone to sixteen rust resistant sugar pine trees.
Commercial and precommercial thinning of forest vegetation to capture timber volume and restore stand characteristics similar to reference conditions; fuel hazard reduction using prescribed fire and mechanical treatments.
The proposed action would be the issuance of a special use permit for the planned Sheetiron Dual Sport Event that would take place on the southern portion of the Mendocino National Forest in May 2018.
Commercial thinning and fuel treatments in forest vegetation; fuel treatments in hardwood and chaparral vegetation. Treatment areas strategically placed to reduce severity and spread of wildfire in southwest part of Late Successional Reserve RC309
Commercial thinning and fuel treatments in forest vegetation; fuel treatments in hardwood and chaparral vegetation. Treatment areas strategically placed to reduce severity and spread of wildfire in southwest part of Late Successional Reserve RC309.
Issue 1 year special use permit for up to 3 enduro events on existing designated motor vehicle routes in the Stonyford OHV management area. Events usually attract about 300-450 participants. Formerly scoped as 5 year permit.
Reduce hazard fuels on ~185 acres of plantations and natural forest stands surrounding Sugar Springs dispersed campsite. Use mechanical and hand treatments to cut and pile understory vegetation; burn piles during low hazard weather conditions.
The Forest Service is requesting a Letter of Permission from the Army Corps of Engineers for ongoing maintenance of the boat ramp. The boat ramp has become inundated with deposited benthic substrate that needs to be removed to allow river access.
Create 300-600 foot wide shaded fuelbreak and thin plantations along rd 24N04 between M2 and Ball Rock using combination of mechanical and hand treatments; option for biomass removal depending upon market conditions.
Prevent unauthorized cross country motor vehicle travel, including use of unauthorized, user-created trails. Rehabilitate user-created trails restore near-natural surface drainage and allow natural revegetation. Install signing.
Elimination of 0.5 miles (of non-compliant OHV trail design standards) that is steep and unmaintainable. A new and less steep 0.6 mile segment will be constructed to the west of the existing trail.
Restore approximately 1000-1500 feet of unsustainable trail that over time and use now have eroded soils, resulting in cascading runoff from upslope delivering sediment into Mill Creek.
Reroute approximately 0.45 miles of trail from private property onto Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land and maintenance of approximately 1.4 miles of trail on BLM land.
Close and rehabilitate ~100 ft of OHV trail and construct a ~400 ft route around the closed section to provide for better drainage and to bring the trail to rated difficulty level.
Reroute Trail 40 to prevent further damage to cultural and historical resources and maintain the functionality of the trail system. Construct a new segment of 1500-1900 feet of trail; close existing 1200 foot section of trail.
Create a 300 ft wide by 4.5 mile long fuelbreak along Twin Rocks Ridge utilizing road 22N02. Would protect resources and infrastructure in the Twin Rocks Ridge area.
Treatment of fuels on private land under Steven's Authority. Treatments include 86 acres of thinning for forest health, 56 acres of thinning for fuel reduction and 32 acres of a fuel break. California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)is completed.
Re-issue a special use authorization for approx. 950 ft. of 1 3/4" water transmission line (with a 25ft. buffer on either side of the line) from PG&E leased property to an un-named spring on FS property. Both spring and line under permit since 1986.
Establish fuel treatments on approx. 360 acres, to provide habitat, community and infrastructure protection, and enhance firefighting efforts. Treatments include: chipping, mastication, hand thinning/piling/burning, machine piling and underburning.
