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| Keywords: nature treemortality trees forest forestservice bureau of land management bureauoflandmanagement interagency fire task force interagencyfiretaskforce fire wildland wildland fire wildlandfire wildfire beetles bark beetles barkbeetles forest health foresthealth public lands publiclands yourlands outdoors recreation homes houses neighbors drought california blmcalifonia partners habitat forestry science stem During the winter of 2016, BLM will implement phase two of the Lily Gap project which will treat 200 acres near the town of West Point in the Mokelumne Watershed, with grant funding from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and input, planning, and support from the Amador Calaveras Consensus Group. In 2011, phase one of the Lily Gap project treated 157 acres, using local timber operators and a local community organization, Calaveras Healthy Impact Product Solutions. Merchantable timber was sent to the mill, and smaller diameter material was sent to the biomass plant to recover some cost of the work. The forest structure followed Malcolm North’s prescription of varying tree density, leaving clumps and gaps, producing a healthy, shaded fuel break which protected nearby homes from a high-intensity crown fire. As tree mortality began impacting the central Sierra Nevada foothills in 2015, BLM managers noticed the remaining pines in phase one were not being impacted by the drought or the bark beetle. Lily Gap has since become a forest restoration success story and the BLM is hoping to duplicate these treatments in other BLM-managed wildland interface areas. Photo by Samantha Storms, BLM. During the winter of 2016, BLM will implement phase two of the Lily Gap project which will treat 200 acres near the town of West Point in the Mokelumne Watershed, with grant funding from the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and input, planning, and support from the Amador Calaveras Consensus Group. In 2011, phase one of the Lily Gap project treated 157 acres, using local timber operators and a local community organization, Calaveras Healthy Impact Product Solutions. Merchantable timber was sent to the mill, and smaller diameter material was sent to the biomass plant to recover some cost of the work. The forest structure followed Malcolm North’s prescription of varying tree density, leaving clumps and gaps, producing a healthy, shaded fuel break which protected nearby homes from a high-intensity crown fire. As tree mortality began impacting the central Sierra Nevada foothills in 2015, BLM managers noticed the remaining pines in phase one were not being impacted by the drought or the bark beetle. Lily Gap has since become a forest restoration success story and the BLM is hoping to duplicate these treatments in other BLM-managed wildland interface areas. Photo by Samantha Storms, BLM. | ||||
