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Project
Description:
In partnership with local ranchers, the University of California
Cooperative Extension, and local agriculture advocates, High Sierra
RC&D is working to establish a producer-owned business that will
market locally produced beef directly to restaurants and consumers.
With grants from the U.S. Forest Service, the California Department
of Food and Agriculture’s Buy California program, the USDA Rural
Development Value Added Grant program and the U.C. Center for
Cooperatives, High Sierra RC&D is facilitating the completion of a feasibility
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Partners:
· Local Ranching Families
· UC Cooperative Extension
· Tahoe Cattlemen's Association
· Plumas - Sierra Cattlemen's Association
· Amador - El Dorado - Sacramento Cattlemen's
Association
· PlacerGROWN
· Nevada County Farm Bureau
· Sierra College Small Business Development
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· UC Davis
· CSU Chico |
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Status:
The project is in its beginning stages.
A project coordinator is being hired, and additional consultants
are being interviewed. On
January 17, 2003, ranchers from throughout the High Sierra region will
come together at the Fruitvale Schoolhouse in Lincoln to finalize the
project’s mission and vision. |
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For More
Information: Contact
Kay Joy Barge
(530) 823-5687, extension 115, or kay.joy@ca.usda.gov. |
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Links:
UC Cooperative Extension – Nevada/Placer
(http://ceplacer.ucdavis.edu/Custom_Program550/) |
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Volcanoville
Community Fire Safe Plan and Fuels Reduction Project |
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Project
Description:
Using an initial grant from the U.S. Forest Service, High Sierra RC&D
assisted the El Dorado County community of Volcanoville in developing a
fuels reduction and fire safe plan. Completed
in July 2002, the plan identified a number of community priorities,
including shaded fuel breaks, roadside fuels treatments, staging areas to
assist in evacuation and firefighting access, improved emergency
communications, and improved visibility and access along Volcanoville
Road. A subsequent grant from
the Bureau of Land Management’s Community Based Wildfire Prevention
program will allow the community to begin addressing these needs. |
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Current
Status:
Community residents and High Sierra RC&D are in the planning phase for
removing roadside fuels, constructing a shaded fuel break and improving
road access and visibility. On-the-ground
work will be initiated during the winter and spring. |
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For
More Information:
Contact Kay Joy Barge
(530) 823-5687, extension 115, or kay.joy@ca.usda.gov |
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Finnon
Lake Fuels Reduction Demonstration Project |
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Project
Description:
In partnership with the Mosquito Volunteer Fire Department, which owns
Finnon Lake in El Dorado County, High Sierra RC&D has obtained
National Fire Plan funding through the Bureau of Land Management to
complete a fuels reduction demonstration project. The effort, which will encompass up to 15 acres adjacent to
Finnon Lake, will help educate area residents about fuel load reduction
techniques and fire safe landscaping.
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Current Status: Mosquito
Volunteer Fire Department staff and volunteers and High Sierra RC&D
are in the planning phase for implementing the project. On-the-ground work will be initiated during the winter and
spring. |
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For
More Information:
Contact Kay Joy Barge
(530) 823-5687, extension 115, or kay.joy@ca.usda.gov |
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