Shingletown WUI Fuels Treatment Project - Cal Fire Grant

Lassen Fire Safe Council staff did an incredible job putting this ArcGIS Storymap together, including photos and videos, so that you can see the $8,978,870.00 Shingletown WUI Fuels Treatments for yourself as it begins to wind down. 

Summer 2024 Project Map

14 forests. 85,000 acres. Teaching us how to care for California’s timberlands.

Western Shasta Resource Conservancy District  (WSRCD) serves as a project partner with the CAL FIRE Shasta-Trinity Unit to help plan and implement hazard fuel reduction work in Shasta County.

Sale Name: Bronco

Sale Name: Shinglecreek 

Purpose: Timber Sale for Saw logs

Contractor: JM Headrick Logging

Duration: late April 2024 and expected to last until August

Impacts: Felling and heavy equipment noise with Logging Truck Traffic (Expect log truck traffic On Emigrant Trail)

The McConnell Foundation has been awarded multiple grants to mitigate wildfire impacts around Shasta County communities. The goal of the Project is to reduce risk of wildfire along certain critical corridors within high-priority wildland urban interface (WUI) areas by reducing hazardous fuels.

Shasta Fire Safe Council is pleased to partner with the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) and the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) to develop a state home hardening initiative to retrofit, harden, and create defensible space for homes at high risk to wildfires.

The program is currently under development and is active only in pre-identified demonstration 

CAL FIRE’s Wildfire Prevention Grants Program provides funding for fire prevention projects and activities in and near fire threatened communities. Funded activities include hazardous fuels reduction, wildfire prevention planning, and wildfire prevention education with an emphasis on improving public health and safety while reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

This Program provides federal grants to low- and moderate-income homeowners

whose residence is located in an eligible county affected by 2020 disasters.

2020 Eligible Disaster includes:

FEMA DR-4569 (September 4 through November 17, 2020) Fires:Fresno, Los Angeles, Napa, Shasta, Siskiyou, and Sonoma counties.