Project Overview

The Hollenbeck Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project is a forest health and fire resilience initiative in partnership with Modoc National Forest. This project will treat 1,707 acres, including 787 acres of shaded fuel breaks and 920 acres of forest thinning and fire restoration.

Treatments will focus on reducing overstocked tree densities, removing dead and diseased trees, and clearing small-diameter vegetation. The project will also prepare the area for prescribed fire to help restore natural fire cycles and reduce future wildfire intensity.

Treatment goals include retaining large, healthy trees, thinning pockets of root disease, and removing ground and ladder fuels. Prescribed fire methods will include machine pile burning, hand pile burning, and understory burning. Along roads and railways, hazardous trees and large down logs will be removed to improve public safety and fire access.

This work will build landscape-scale resilience while addressing localized forest health issues that threaten ecological function and public safety.