Healthy Forest

Proposition 40 Fuel Load Reduction Program

The goal of the Proposition 40 Fuels Management Program is to contract with private landowners for mutually beneficial forest improvement and wildfire hazard reduction projects designed to reduce fuel loadings that pose a threat to watershed resources and water quality.

Cost-share funding through this program is available to private, non-industrial forestland landowners for the development of forest management plans and the implementation of vegetation management practices to reduce fuel loads and the threat of wildfire. Practices may include: site preparation, tree planting, tree shelters, canopy cover, thinning, pruning, stand release, brush control, invasive weeds, land conservation, wildlife/riparian, etc.

Placer County RCD will administer the Prop 40 Fuels Management Program including invoicing and reimbursement processing. More info on our Prop 40 Fuels Management Program page.

Chipper Program

Placer County RCD presented information describing the program, how it can benefit landowners, and why landowners might choose chipping over burning at a forum in Foresthill on November 1, 2010. The slides from that forum are now available for you to download:

Placer County Chipper Program (PDF*, 3.6MB)

Current Projects

CDF/CARCD Grant I & II

Placer County RCD supports (CARCD) and CDF Forestry subcommittees that provide policy guidance to CARCD and CDF on forest stewardship matters, guidance for the CDF Forest Stewardship Program, leadership for educational programs on forestry and fuels management to RCDs, and assistance to local RCDs in funding implementation grants for forestry enhancement and improvement.

NRCS Environmental Quality Incentive Program (EQIP)

Financial support to private landowners with the goal of sustaining a healthy forest, these practices result in the reduction of fuel load on eligible productive forest lands. In 2006, NRCS contracts over $324,101 provided a cost share of $155,088 to enhance Placer County forestlands.