Category Overview
The State Lands Restoration and Enhancement category provides funding to two state agencies to help repair damaged plant and animal habitat. These grants focus on resource preservation and protection of public lands. Projects in this category help bring important natural areas and resources back to their original functions by improving the self sustaining and ecological functionality of sites.
Project Highlights
Planned commercial treatment for the 709 acre Cleman Mountain site was not completed due to an unresolved legal access dispute. As a result, a Cultural Resource Survey was not completed for this portion of the project. However, existing cultural consultation documentation has previously been provided for the prescribed fire and pre-commercial thinning portions of the project. 348 acres of pre-commercial thinning was completed within the Rock Creek work site and 22 acres of prescribed fire was completed within the Oak Creek work site for a total of 370 acres. Amendments to the project added the Oak Creek Unit to project scope and removed Cleman Mountain from project scope due to the unresolved control and tenure issue stated above. A third amendment added 15 months to grant agreement end date primarily due to delays incurred by COVID laws and policies during this timeframe. But, still this project came up short of goals with the additional setback of losing the project manager summer of 2022.