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Also In This Issue:Featured NRCS Employee................ 2South Fork Restoration ................... 3Native Plant Restoration ................. 4Weed Article--Broom ...................... 5Watershed Coordinator Grant ......... 6Oregon Mountain Fuels ................... 7

Winter 2004 Vol. XIII No. 1

Trinity County Resource Conservation District Winter Issue 20041

New Chipper to Assist With Community Fuels Reduction

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So you and your neighbors havedecided to get together and start a firesafe project around your properties.What do you do with all of the smalltrees, the branches and the brush?

Maybe the RCD can help. The RCDjust obtained a new Bandit Industrieschipper (Model 150XP) with a grantfrom the US Forest Service’sEconomic Action National Fire Planprogram. This chipper, whencombined with a new crew vehicleoutfitted to tow the chipper, is at thecenter of our efforts to encouragelandowners to get out there and createsome defensible space around theirhomes. This new equipment increasesthe capacity of the District to servefuel reduction projects inneighborhoods throughout TrinityCounty. The District’s crew of five willbe able to implement community-protection projects on one site, withthe potential to haul chips to fuelsutilization sites, for composting orenergy production, and a smaller crewcan help landowners dispose ofmaterials that they have already cutand piled on their property.

The District has applied for fundsthrough the California Fire SafeCouncil to provide this service tocommunities for free, and we hope tohave the program up and running this

year. Currently the chipper and a 2-man crew is available to interestedlandowners who have cut and piledvegetation from around homes androadways at a fee of $410 per day tocover the District’s costs.

Reducing the risk of catastrophic firesin, and around, our communitiesstarts with eachlandowner. The District,working closely with itspartners on the TrinityCounty Fire SafeCouncil, realizes thatlandowners need helpand we will continue tofind ways to provide

that help. It is becoming increasinglyimportant to reduce the level of fuelsaround homes, but it is also becomingmore difficult to dispose of the material.The North Coast Air ResourcesManagement District began a newpermitting program for burning woody

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The USDA-Natural ResourcesConservation Service (NRCS)and Trinity County ResourceConservation District (TCRCD)are pleased to welcome JohnTiedeman to Weaverville andTrinity County. Although new toWeaverville, John brings a variedbackground in engineering,including 7 years of privateconsulting engineering, and 20years with USDA-NRCS. Stateregistered in civil and agriculturalengineering, John has a passion forsoil and water conservation, andsees brand new horizons innorthern California.

John began his NRCS career in theSan Joaquin Valley, and has workedthroughout California, including thecentral coast, southern valleys(Imperial, Coachella), SacramentoValley, and a 3-year assignment withNRCS in Mexico. From 1999-2001,John made multiple trips to CentralAmerica as part of a USDA teamassisting in the recovery fromhurricane Mitch. In all of theselocations, the work consisted ofplanning, surveying, designing, andconstructing soil and waterconservation projects to supportagriculture and wildlife habitatimprovement. Each geographic areahas different natural resourcechallenges, providing perspective forsolutions.

Project types in northern Californiasince arriving in August 2003 haveincluded irrigation, waterdevelopment for livestock andirrigation (creeks, springs, reservoirs),and stream restoration. Both achallenge and reward in NRCSconservation engineering is thediversity of projects, plus the field-to-finish responsibilities. An importantpart of the job satisfaction is assisting

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material, because of deteriorating airquality; especially around Weaverville.

It is our hope that the new chipperprogram will result in:

• More landowners participating incommunity fuels reduction efforts;• Improving air quality by providing analternative to burning;• Reducing material sent to landfills;• Reducing the threat of fires escapingwhen landowners burn their woodydebris;• Providing landowners with chips forlandscaping;• Reduced risk of catastrophic fire;• Improved public safety; and• Watershed protection

farmers, ranchers, and other privatelandowners in realizing their visions anddreams. The NRCS and TCRCD fieldoffice staff of natural resourcespecialists are diverse and dedicatedteam players. That could sum up thesatisfaction of an engineering career ofthis nature – technical challenges,grateful clients, capable co-workers.

John likes to say his best reward fromMexico was meeting his wife Irene, andthe birth of their older daughter, Elena.Their younger daughter, Emily, wasborn in Santa Maria, on the centralcoast of California. Both girls attendWeaverville Elementary School. Johnenjoys playing guitar and mandolin, andhelps Elena on the piano, and Emilywith the violin. Irene had a career as achildren’s dentist in Mexico, but nowdevotes her time as mother,homemaker, and to creative pursuits(knitting, sewing, quilting). TheTiedeman family are active newmembers at First Baptist Church ofWeaverville.

John and his family are grateful for thefriendly people of Weaverville whohave made them feel welcome in theirnew home.

John Tiedeman - New Engineer in Town

KRIS Klamath/Trinity Version 3to be Released in March

Over the past four years, the Trinity CountyRCD has overseen the centralization,updating and dissemination of available datafrom the various agencies involved in theTrinity River Restoration Program (TRRP).This involves intensive data management andintegration of baseline and trend monitoringdata, photographs, and other informationwith a user-friendly interface on CD. Thisproject provides for comparisons over timeof habitat conditions, fish populations, andwater quality and provides a working toolfor adaptive management for the TRRP.

The newest version of KRIS will span threeCDs and include recent data, expandedbibliographic content, and major enhance-ments to the interface. One such enhance-ment is an integrated map tab/GIS viewerthat provides access and comparison ofactual GIS layers of the basin like streams,roads, ownership, landuse, and vegetationthat are included on the disks. These spatialdatasets can also be used in any standardGIS software package, such as ArcView orAutoCAD Map. KRIS Version 3 will beavailable and freely distributed in earlyMarch. For the current online version, seehttp://www.krisweb.com/krisweb_kt/index.htm.


Imagine a football field covered fromend-zone to end-zone with 13 feet ofdirt. That's about 23,000 cubic

yards of soil and how much theRCD removed from streamcrossings along 2.8 miles of oldForest Service roads in the UpperSouth Fork and Happy Campwatersheds last year. This soil, if notremoved, poses a severe threat ofbeing washed into the South ForkTrinity River, which already has aproblem with the amount of sedimentthat gets into the river each winterdamaging critical habitat for salmon(See Fall 2003 ConservationAlmanac "RCD Completes SouthFork Trinity River MonitoringProject").

Cynthia Tarwater, ProjectCoordinator, led the District teamthat oversaw local contractors, whoimplemented last summer's work,which included hydroclosing 2.1miles and decommissioning 0.7 milesof roads. Hydroclosing consists ofremoving all of the drainagestructures from the roadway.Hydroclosed roads are "put to bed"indefinitely to reduce the impacts tofisheries habitat, but can be reopenedfor future timber management, firecontrol or forest stewardshipprojects.

RCD Completes Seventh Year of Restoration in South Fork Trinity River

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Decommissioning a road includesremoving all culverts and hardwarepermanently; ripping the road bed

and reshaping it tomatch the originalcontours of the land,as shown in theaccompanying photos.Roads that are targetedfor decommissioningpose a higher threat tofisheries and are nolonger needed forforest management.Therefore, they are

completely removed andare not intended to bereopened.

The California Departmentof Fish and Game'sCalifornia Coastal SalmonRecovery Program andthe Trinity CountyResource AdvisoryCommittee funded the

work described in this article.

The RCD has been implementingroad-related, sediment reductionprojects in the South Fork TrinityRiver Watershed since 1997, includinga third category of project--upgradingroads. Upgrading roads reduces thepotential for soil to reach the streamsand keeps the roads drivable byredesigning the drainage of the road,especially through the installation oflarger culverts that can withstand 100-year storms. To date, nearly 163 milesof roads have been treated with 67

stream crossings upgraded, 92stream crossings excavated andover 70,000 cubic yards of soilexcavated from the streamcourses. The Bureau ofReclamation's Trinity RiverRestoration Program, the USFSand California Department ofFish and Game have funded thiswork in the past.

The District will be back in theSouth Fork Trinity RiverWatershed in 2004 with fundingfrom the State Water ResourcesControl Board's 319(h)Program, the USFS and TrinityCounty RAC. For moreinformation on the importantresource conservation programvisit the District's website toview back issues of theConservation Almanac.


In 1996, the TrinityCounty ResourceConservation District(District) drafted a ten-year revegetation plan forthe Grass Valley Creek(GVC) Watershed. GVCis a major contributor ofsediment into the TrinityRiver. It contains 17,000acres underlain by highlyerodible decomposedgranite, has been heavilylogged over the last fiftyyears, and has anextensive network ofhaul roads, skid roads,crossings, and landings created tofacilitate timber removal. The Districtis currently implementing its eighthplanting season in GVC and, sincethe implementation of the plan isahead of schedule, planning for itslast season in the fall of 2004 andspring of 2005. From the fall plantingseason in 1996 to the fall of 2003,1,145,400 grasses, shrubs,hardwoods, and conifers have beenplanted in the watershed.

The District collects seed fromfederal lands in, and around, thewatershed in order to propagate thislarge quantity of plants for GVCrevegetation activities. All plantsutilized by the District in itsrevegetation projects are TrinityCounty native plants and, in mostcases, the seed originates from thecounty, as well. While the bulk of theplant material used by the District isgrown by various nurseries aroundnorthern California, the revegetationstaff, notably Larry Cooper andBrian Stewart, has established asmall, native plant nursery to producethe needed planting stock, especiallyfor the smaller revegetation projectsthat the District executes in any givenyear.

One of the most exciting, upcomingprojects in the planning stages is the

creation of a wetland complex onundevelopable county land in theTrinity Alps Industrial Park. Thecomplex will consist of fourinterconnected ponds of various sizesand depths. Ann Francis, a NaturalResource Conservation Service(NRCS) botanist, collaborated withthe District to design a revegetationplan for the project. Sedges andrushes will be salvaged from theproject site and these grass-like plantswill be grown in sod-like mats, thatare rolled out and secured to theground. The District will revegetatethe entire wetland complex, once theconstruction is complete, locatingplants like the rushes and sedges atthe water margin, seeding disturbedareas outside of the wet areas withnative grasses and wildflowers, andplanting native shrubs and ripariantrees to increase the complexity ofthe plant community.

Every year, the District tends to workwith Caltrans to revegetate roadsideareas disturbed by roadwork. Aftersections of Highway 299 werewashed out in the floods on NewYear’s Day in 1998, the District,under contract with Caltrans,developed and implemented a plan toplant riparian trees along Weaver

Creek. Today thesetrees have grown tallenough to shade thecreek and preventerosion of the streambank. Other Caltransrevegetation sitesinclude the bridgereconstructions at RushCreek on Highway 3and at Little Brown’sCreek on Highway 299.Roadside revegetationtends to be a challenge,because the soils arecompacted by heavy

equipment and have little organicmaterial or soil structure to help theplants grow.

Finally, the revegetation staff ispreparing to work with the Trinity RiverRestoration Program’s WeavervilleOffice to revegetate areas along theriver that will be affected by TrinityRiver Restoration projects. Since thedams were built along the Trinity River,the plant community has changeddramatically. The goal of the riverrestoration is to recreate a betterfunctioning floodplain on a smaller scalegiven the managed flows of the river.Part of the process is to restructure theplant community to enhance thefunctioning of the floodplain andprovide valuable wildlife habitat.

The District has come a long way sinceit began restoring the upland forests ofthe GVC watershed. It now works onmore types of projects and in manydifferent plant communities. As a result,the District has been able to expand itsnursery facilities and try new methodsof growing plants for revegetationprojects, such as the willow “orchard”that will be established this year toprovide a source of planting materialsfor some new projects.

Restoration of Native Plant Communities in Trinity County


The Trinity County ResourceConservation District (District), as amember of the Trinity County WeedManagement Cooperative(Cooperative), has spearheaded aproject to control the infestation ofbrooms in, and around, Junction City.The most common broom foundinfesting wildlands across California isScotch broom (Cytisus scoparius).Other species, such as French broom(Genista monspessulana), Portuguesebroom (Cytisus striatus), Canary Islandbroom (C. canariensis), and Spanishbroom (Spartium junceum), are closelyrelated and are equally invasive,although less common. Working in apartnership with Bureau of LandManagement (BLM) and CaliforniaDepartment of Transportation(Caltrans), the District with assistancefrom the inmate crews at the CDFTrinity River Conservation Camp hasbeen manually pulling younger,vigorously growing plants and cuttingout large broom plants in order toprevent the spread of this plant intouninfested areas. In infested areas, thelong-term goal is to eliminate broomsand replace this non-native, high-invasive plant with native grasses,shrubs, and trees. Approximately, 20acres are currently occupied by broomin the Junction City area along Highway299.

Brooms do not stay where they areplanted. One can observe the slowcreep of the infestation along theroadways of the county from infestedsites, such as in Junction City. If onelooks closely at the roadside whentraveling west on Highway 299 from theBuckhorn Summit to Weaverville, smallpopulations of broom can be detectedand have the potential to spread intoimportant streamside habitats. Thisshrub displaces native plant and forage

species, is toxic to livestock and deer,makes reforestation difficult by outcompeting tree seedlings, and canincrease both the frequency andintensity of wildfires.

Scotch broom is native to Europe andNorth Africa and was originallyintroduced to California in the 1860sas an ornamental. Later, it was usedto prevent erosion, because of its fastgrowing nature, ability to fix nitrogen,and ability to grow on harsh sites. Inthe spring this shrub is awash inbright yellow, fragrant flowers. It cangrow up to 10 feet tall and formimpenetrable thickets effectively outcompeting any other plants on sunnysites. Broom is generally found indisturbed areas such as riverbanks,road cuts, and forests clear cuts, butit can also invade undisturbedgrasslands, shrublands, and opencanopy forests below 4000 feet. Notonly does this plant produce seedprolifically, seeds are also known tosurvive at least five years and as longas thirty years in the soil. Seeds aredispersed when the seedpod bursts atmaturity. Birds and ants do their partin moving seed around. Humans tend

to move the seed to new sites onvehicles, muddy boots, and heavyequipment.

Fortunately, broom is found in onlylimited areas in the county. Thelargest known populations are alongTrinity Dam Boulevard andHighway 3 within the recreationareas upstream of the Trinity Dam;in Junction City along Highway299, Dutch Creek Road, and RedHill Road; and along the road toRuth Lake. Small populations andindividual plants are found alongmany roads throughout the county.Addressing these small infestationsand limiting the spread of largepopulations is an important task notonly to protect botanical diversityand wildlife habitat, but also tominimize fire hazard and negativeimpacts to working lands in thecounty. Manual techniques can bean effective method of controllingthis invasive weed. Small plants caneither be hand pulled during therainy season or mowed at the driesttime of the year, which minimizesresprouting. Large plants with well-established roots need to beremoved so that the majority of theroot system is not left in the groundwhile soil disturbance is minimized.Areas from where large plants havebeen removed should be monitoredafterwards to eliminate anyregeneration of broom from theseedbank.

If you know of a population ofbroom in the county that may be aproblem, feel free to call us at(530)623-6004 or to e-mail theDistrict at [email protected],because the District is trying to geta better idea of the distribution ofthis noxious weed to plan weedmanagement activities.

Manually Controlling Brooms In & Around Junction Cityin cooperation with

Bureau of Land Management (BLM), California Department of Transportation (Caltrans),

& Trinity County Weed Management Cooperative


RCD To Lead Watershed Coordination

The RCD entered into an agreement inJanuary 2004 with the Trinity CountyPlanning Department to provide localexpertise on watersheds critical to therestoration of the Trinity River, with afocus on the tributaries betweenLewiston and Junction City. Restorationwork in these tributaries is a key elementof the overall restoration strategy for theriver. The District was asked to providewatershed coordination in concert withefforts being made by the Trinity RiverRestoration Program (TRRP) and TrinityCounty Planning Department, because ofthe District’s expertise in landowneroutreach and community coordination.

The District has a great deal ofexperience working with the full range ofinterested parties on conservation issues,including the various federal, state,regional and local government agencies

involved in the Trinity Riverrestoration. The District also worksclosely with private landowners onthese same issues, from the planningstage through acquisition of funds toimplementation of projects. TheTrinity Adaptive ManagementWorking Group, a stakeholderadvisory group appointed by theSecretary of Interior, and TrinityManagement Council have approvedthe proposal to have the Districtprovide local coordination thatincludes the following:

• Coordinate efforts and serve as aliaison between the Trinity RiverRestoration Program and otheragencies on watershed analysisand evaluations;

• Reach out to private landownersinterested in restoration projects

involving fisheries and/orwatershed restoration;

• Educate landowners andstakeholders about effectivewatershed and tributary restorationpractices;

• Implement small, demonstrationprojects on private property;

• Assist the Trinity River RestorationProgram in developmentof the watershed restorationcomponent of its Strategic Plan;

• Coordinate with public and privatelandowners to develop andprioritize watershed restorationneeds; and

• Secure significant matching grantfunds to implement thoserestoration projects that willimprove fishery habitat in theTrinity River and its tributariesdownstream of Lewiston Dam.

Come Join Us

For information onhow to get your freepine seedlings and treeplanting informationcontact the RCD at(530) 623-6004

Members of fire safe councils from allover northwestern California will bemeeting in Weaverville in April. The ideafor this get-together grew out of theFireWise Workshop held in Fortuna inNovember of last year (See Fall 2003Conservation Almanac). Participants atthat workshop began to realize that firesafe councils have been formed throughoutthe region to deal with the issuessurrounding the protection of communitiesand our forests from wildfire. Somecouncils, like the Trinity County Fire SafeCouncil, are countywide while others, likethose in Orleans/Somes Bar and the LowerMattole, are working within specificcommunities. The Trinity County FireSafe Council is known around the regionfor its successes – it has a FireManagement Plan and an action plan thatwere developed at community meetingsheld throughout the county fromNovember 1999 through May 2002, andthe Trinity County Fire Safe Council hasmaintained a strong emphasis onimplementing projects all over the countythrough organizations such as the Post

Mountain PUD, Watershed Researchand Training Center, Humboldt TrinityRecreation Alliance and RCD.

The April workshop will provide anopportunity for fire safe councils toshare their success stories on how toeducate communities, secure fundingfor projects and implement fire safestrategies in, and around, theircommunities. Organizers hope thisworkshop will enhance fire safeprojects throughout the region andresult in forming a network of fire safevolunteers and professionals, who canshare information that will benefiteveryone.

For more information, contact us [email protected] or [email protected] become more involved in yourTrinity County Fire Safe Council, joinus at our monthly meetings at 7:00 p.m.on the fourth Thursday of every month.To receive Fire Safe Council meetingminutes and announcements, send Pator Noreen your email address.

Fire Safe Council to Host Workshop


District Manager’s Corner--Pat Frost

I like to think of the District as a worktable supported by four stout legs. Oneleg represents our partners providingtechnical assistance (See New Engineer InTown- Page 2) and funding like thesupport from the Forest Service for thenew chipper that is featured on the frontpage. Another is you, our constituents,who are letting us implement projectswith you. This issue is filled withexamples like John Richards and hisneighbors on Oregon Mountain orCaltrans and BLM working with us toeradicate Scotch Broom from theirproperty in Junction City. The third leg isvolunteers, folks willing to sit on themany advisory committees and landownergroups like the Fire Safe Council, theTrinity County Resource AdvisoryCommittee, South Fork CRMP, WeedManagement Cooperative and our trailcommittees. The ideas that come out ofthese groups help the District set itspriorities, keep its focus and adapt to theneeds of the communities. Theannouncement on page 6 inviting everyoneto join us in a celebration of Arbor Day onMarch 7th is a case in point.

The fourth leg is the District’s staff. Thereis not a District project that would moveforward, if it were not for the talentedindividuals, who have chosen to work here.The diversity of our projects is areflection of the diversity of skills and themany years of experience housed at theTrinity County Resource ConservationDistrict. Thumb through this issue of theConservation Almanac and you will get afeel for the experience and expertise thatour employees bring to the table. I amvery proud of the fine work that they doand I am extremely fortunate to be able tocount them as my colleagues inconservation.

Oregon Mountain Fuels Reduction

The District’s fuels reduction crew, ledby Jack McGlynn, has been workingwith private landowners on OregonMountain to reduce the risk of wildfirewith funding from the Community-Based Wildfire Grant Program of theSacramento Regional Foundation andthe US Forest Service’s CommunityProtection Program. It all began whena group of landowners headed by JohnRichards asked the District forassistance in November 2002. TheRCD developed a proposal andobtained $150,000 to implementneeded fuels reduction in the vicinity

of Oregon Mountain in Weaverville.The project includes defensible spacearound homes, and shaded fuel breaksalong the roads and ridge tops.

The Oregon Mountain area wasidentified as a high priority by theTrinity County Fire Safe Council in itsCommunity Recommendations Report(Nov 2000), due to the heavy build-up

of dense stands of trees and brush inan area with a relatively highpopulation density. This project iscontiguous to BLM lands and buildson the work that the RCD completedin, and around, Timber Ridge. Firestarts along roads are one of the mostcommon causes of fire in TrinityCounty according to CaliforniaDepartment of Forestry and FireProtection and that is why thisproject focuses on upper OregonStreet and other residential roads inthe area.

The success ofcommunity fuelsreduction projects such asthis one and others incommunities like LongCanyon, Covington Mill,Timber Ridge, and PostMountain haveencouraged otherneighborhoods to getorganized and get FireSafe. Most recently MarkStewart, the Chief of theDouglas City VolunteerFire Department,approached the RCD toassist residents of thePoker Bar area betweenLewiston and DouglasCity to apply for a fuelsreduction grant for theirneighborhood, and toassist landowners inVitzum Gulch to develop

a fire safe plan. It is clear thatprojects are most effective whencommunity members mobilize and atleast one local landowner spearheadsthe effort. For more information onhow your community can join thegrowing list of neighborhoodsworking together to make theirproperties more fire safe, contact theResource Conservation District.

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