In partnership with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) the BCRCD has been planning, facilicating, and overseeing forest health projects. The Good Neighbor Agreement makes the following projects on BLM lands possible:

Forks of Butte Forest Health Project

This project is focused on the planning and development of future forest health projects that would occur within the Forks of Butte area of critical environmental concern. Treatment techniques are expected to include both mechanized and hand fuel reduction, timber harvesting, prescribed burning, noxious weed treatments, water monitoring, and surveying for recreational improvement opportunities.

Lumpkin Road Post North Complex Fire Fuels Reduction

This fuels reduction project removed dead and dying trees, understory shrubs, and heavy accumulations of downed materials to reduce hazardous fuel loading and hazard trees in and around Lumpkin Road, in Butte County, CA. The project created linear fuel breaks on 120 acres of BLM property alongside existing features such as roadways, property boundaries, or infrastructure.

BLM Hazard Tree Romval for upper Ridge Nature Preserve

The preserve suffered high-severity fire damage during the 2018 Camp Fire, which resulted in a large amount of standing dead ponderosa pine and black oak. In the years that followed, beetle kill increased the number of standing dead trees and a understory brush component comprised mostly of chemise regenerated. This created an unhealthy forest landscape and also threatened the safety of neighboring landowners, pedestrians, and recreational users. The purpose of the URNP project was to mitigate, remove, and pile any hazard trees that threatened roads, trails, private property, transmission lines, and other infrastructure.