Urban Forest Restoration and Fuels Reduction

This project implements fuels reduction treatments on National Forest urban parcels analyzed in the Urban Lot EA and South Shore Fuels Reduction project. Many of the acres to be treated are within or directly adjacent to riparian conservation areas and are designed to remove encroaching conifers from aspen forests and riparian plant communities. These treatments have multiple resource objectives including retreating older fuels treatments to bring them up to current standards and to complement defensible space treatments occurring on adjoining private lands, invasive species control; soil stabilization and erosion control; hazard tree removal and treatment of insect and disease outbreaks.