1. Trinity County Collaborative Group teams up with the Six Rivers National Forest

2. Two Chiefs' Joint Landscape Restoration Partnership Trinity Community Protection and Landscape Restoration Project

3. Addresses the following components:  Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy goals  USFS Region 5 Ecological Restoration Intent  Trinity County Community Wildfire Protection Plan Establish and maintain priority fuel breaks along linear landscape features including priority roads and ridgetops to facilitate safe evacuation, firefighter access, and landscape fire management across the Mad River Ranger District (744 roadway miles)

5. Lightening strikes ignite forest fires in summer 2015

6. Post-fire Strategy

7. Phased planning – triage approach Focal Area: Within Lassics and Pickett Fire perimeters Phase 1. From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project (dead tree only, up to 250 acres) Decision no later than June 2016 Phase 2. Tentative - From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project (II) (dead tree only, up to 250 acres) Decision no later than July 2016 Focal Area: District Scale Phase 3. Trinity Community Protection and Landscape Restoration Project (includes live trees) Decision 2017 (Funding dependent)

8. On November 18, 2015, Six Rivers National Forest staff and members of TCCG subgroup visited areas burned by wildfire to discuss management treatments.

9. From Fire kill to Fuelbreak treatment methods:  Harvest fire-killed dead trees (no green foliage at time of harvest) on both sides of open public roads - would not exceed 300 ft. width (not including the width of the road, shoulder to shoulder)  Minimum width either side of the road would be 25 feet  Ground-based logging systems  No new roads or temporary roads

10. Forest Service identifies potential treatment areas

11. Forest Service excludes treatments within the Lassics wilderness

12. Forest Service excludes treatments within Inventoried Roadless Area

13. Forest Service excludes treatments within Special Interest Area

14. Forest Service identifies treatments defining the proposed action

15. Forest Service proposed treatments within the Lassics Fire perimeter

16. Forest Service proposed treatments within the Pickett Fire perimeter

17. Next steps Phase 1. From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project CE – continue surveys once snowfall melts, analysis and preparation of reports Phase 2. Tentative - From Fire Kill to Fuelbreaks Project CE II – continue field review to identify potential treatment areas once snowfall melts Phase 3. Trinity Community Protection and Landscape Restoration Project EA – begin project development, surveys once snowfall melts and analysis

18. Questions?  Contact Carol Spinos (Six Rivers NF Environmental Planner) if you want to know more about the planning process or have comments about the From Fire kill to Fuelbreaks Project:  707 601 5852  cspinos@fs.fed.us cspinos@fs.fed.us  comments-pacificsouthwest-six-rivers- mad-river@fs.fed.us comments-pacificsouthwest-six-rivers- mad-river@fs.fed.us