Alpine County forms Tamarack Emergency Fire Restoration Team

ALPINE COUNTY, Calif. - To help the community recover from the Tamarack Fire, Alpine County has formed the Tamarack Emergency Fire Restoration Team (EFRT). With a grant from the USDA, the County is able to provide support for private landowners with the restoration of fire-impacted lands, mitigation of hazard fuels, and reforestation activities.

Alpine County is accepting applications for this program. To be eligible for this program, you must be a private landowner whose property was affected by the Tamarack Fire. It is the intent of Alpine County to work with private landowners to assess the impacts, design a restoration strategy, conduct regulatory permitting, and implement the restoration activities on behalf of the landowner.

Allowable activities under this grant funding include:

Biomass Removal: Logging of burned timber and reduction to wood chips/mulch for soil amendment, prescribed burning, and associated site work.

Mulching/Mastication: Reduction of burned trees and brush to mulch and broadcast of mulch over impacted areas.

Reseeding (live seedings – Trees): Hand plant seedlings of native conifer species

Revegetation (grasses-forbs-shrub mix): Aerial and hand broadcast of native-dominated grass-forb-shrub seed mix.

Erosion control/repair: Mitigate impacts of fire-related sediments and drainage issues.

If you feel you might be eligible for assistance and are interested in having an assessment of the impacts of the fire effects on your land for inclusion in this program, please complete the online application of interest to be contacted by the restoration team and schedule a review of your property.

A survey form is provided on the Alpine County website under the Wildfire Risk Mitigation Program > Tamarack Fire (http://www.alpinecountyca.gov/665/Tamarack-Fire).

You can also print the online form and submit it through the mail to:

State and Private Forestry Program
Alpine County Community Development
50 Diamond Valley Road
Markleeville, CA 96120

For questions contact Alpine County Wildfire Project Coordinator Clint Celio at wildfire@alpinecountyca.gov or 530-694-2140.