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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 Stanislaus 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.

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Stanislaus National Forest Projects

This project proposes to repair and protect riparian function at two meadows. At Boggy Meadow, treatments would restore meadow hydrology. Fencing proposed at Boney Flat Meadow would protect fen habitat while maintaining existing land uses.

Issue a permanent Forest Order with limitations on recreational target shooting at the Candy Rock Quarry.

Issue permit to construct 0.15 mile of road to access well and pump for Cow Creek Recreation Residence Tract Association.

The El Portal Fire Recovery and Habitat Resilience project aims to repair damages from past wildfires and prepare the landscape for future wildfires.

Construct a new corral to be used for handling and shipping livestock. Corral design will include interior lanes and gates.

Winter storms in 2023 caused damage across the Forest. This project repairs three landslides on the Groveland Ranger District. The slides are located on 2S30 and 1S03. Work involves excavation, grading, and repaving to restore route connectivity.

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.

The McKays Strategic Fuelbreak Project includes hazardous fuels reduction treatments which vary across 3 treatment types: biomass removal, mastication, mechanical thinning of dead and dying trees, prescribed fire and hazard tree mitigation.

This project aims to restore ecosystem health and resilience to wildfire, insect and disease, and drought through forest thinning, fuels reduction and a suite of watershed improvement actions.

Improvements at Pinecrest and Meadowview Campgrounds including rehabilitation of the adjacent Shadow of the Me-Wuk Trail and a forest plan amendment addressing use of an adjacent parking lot.

This project is for the rehabilitation of the Riverside Day Use/Picnic Area along the North Fork Tuolumne River. Project funding will repair the handpump well, rebuild the damaged path, trail bridge, and abutments.

Increase landscape resilience to natural disturbances, provide economic opportunities to local communities, and reduce the spread of invasive non-native plants.

Hazard tree felling and removal is proposed to reduce safety risk to the public, firefighters, and FS personnel along portions of certain roads, trailheads and facilities across the Stanislaus National Forest.

User created trails, and other unauthorized uses have resulted in resource damage around the communities of Arnold and Avery. This project aims to reverse and prevent further resource damage.

This project involves the replacement of a damaged wooden trail bridge. Work involves delivering and placing a prefabricated steel trail bridge, making minor repairs to the existing concrete abutments, and replacing asphalt adjacent to the bridge.

This project includes the replacement of toilet buildings at multiple sites throughout the forest, as well as improvement, construction, or modification of Outdoor Recreation Access Routes at multiple recreation sites.

Project Archive

Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.