Location:  Plumas County                                                                        

Sponsors:  Plumas Corporation

Project Type: Capacity Building

Est. Cost:      $75,000     Amount Funded:  $75,000 of Minority Funding approved May 2005

Est. Start Date:   7/1/05                              Est. End Date: 6/30/06

Project Description: Forum funding covers administration efforts  to ensure continuation of: 

Plumas County Fire Safe Council

Plumas Corporation implements forest fuels reduction and other projects on behalf of the Plumas County Fire Safe Council. Forum funding will be used to seek additional funding for fuels reduction work on (primarily) private lands in the Feather River Watershed in Plumas County. The intention is to reduce the continuing threat that catastrophic wildfire poses to watershed functions, particularly in the Wildland Urban Interface.

Quincy Library Group Implementation Participation

Plumas Corporation has served as the administrative entity for the unincorporated citizens association-Quincy Library Group, since 1995 (see www.qlg.org). QLG’s  1993 “Community Stability Proposal” was enacted into the “Herger Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act of 1998”. The US Congress, in 2003, extended the Act for an additional five years. Funding to USDA Forest Service has been at the level of $25 million annually in order to accomplish at least 40,000 acres of forest thinning and other watershed improvements across the 2.5 million acre QLG area. The Feather River area is the core of the QLG. Plumas County is 70 % national forest lands. Plumas Watershed Forum funds will be used to continue Plumas Corporation participation in the implementation of the QLG.

Project Goals/Objectives:

Plumas County Fire Safe Council’s 2005 goals are:

• Develop and Implement a Countywide Community Wildland Fire Plan with community based planning,
• Increase public knowledge and awareness of the wildland fire hazard and efforts they can make to reduce their threat,
• Develop more community-based involvement,
• Implement community hazardous fuel reduction projects,
• Continue to pursue grant funds,
• Develop a strategy to provide for sustainable and renewable project funding and reduce the Council's dependence on grant funding

Quincy Library Group’s goal is an: “all age, multi-story, fire-resiliant forest approximating pre-settlement conditions.”
 “Herger Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act” set up an objective of between 250,000 to 300,000 acres of fuelbreaks across the landscape in order to partially carry out the above goal. Approximately 100,000 acres have been accomplished since the Final HFQLG EIS was approved in 1999.

Project Activities: See active projects of the Plumas Fire Safe Council at http://plumasfiresafe.org/projects.htm

Expenditures to date: $ 40,471.44