Consulting Foresters
| Weaverville
PTEIR BBW completed all of the work to produce the final program timberland environmental impact report on the Weaverville, CA Community Fuel Reduction Plan.
Van Eck Forest and Carbon Management Under contract with Pacific Forest Trust, BBW conducts all of the day-to-day management on the 2,200-acre Fred M vanEck Forest property, located in Fieldbrook and Westhaven, CA. BBW manages the marking and harvest of about 1 MMBF of redwood timber per year. In addition, BBW foresters work with the Foundation and PFT to install carbon plots and verify carbon stocks on a yearly basis. Weaverville Community Forest Fuel Treatment BBW has been actively involved in the marking and contract preparation of several fuel treatments on the Weaverville Community Forest. Most of these treatments are a thin from below of 10 to 16 diameter trees. CDF Vegetation Treatment Program EIR BBW has been working with CALFIRE for the past five years to jointly prepare an EIR of CALFIRE's Vegetation Treatment Program, which proposes to treat some 200,000 acres annually on 40 million acres of private forest and woodlands in California. The draft EIR should be available approximately June 2012. Michigan Tribal FMPs In 2011, BBW Associates prepared Forest Management Plans and associated EAs for the Sault Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Sault St. Marie, the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe in Mt. Pleasant, and the Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians in Dowagiac, MI. Manzanita Indian Reservation FMP In 2010-11, BBW Associates installed a field inventory of tribal forestlands and prepared a Forest Management Plan and associated EA for the Manzanita Band of Kumeyaay Indians, in Boulevard, CA. |
Yurok Tribe Tactical
Forest Management Plan BBW is under contract with the Yurok Tribe to develop a tactical plan to integrate the Tribe's forest management on its three major properties, its trust lands, the Phase 1 Weitchpec Pecwan Cappell fee lands and its Cook, Koppala, Gerber, Gleason, & Williams fee parcels. Yurok Tribe Carbon Project BBW is working in conjunction with New Forests which manages investments in sustainable forestry and associated environmental markets, such as carbon, biodiversity and water to implement a carbon project on 9,000 acres of fee land owned by the Yurok Tribe. BIA Forest Management Plans for 120 Indian Allotments in California BBW is preparing individual forest management plans for approximately 120 public domain Indian Allotments scattered throughout California. To date (December, 2011), BBW has completed about 70 of the allotment plans and completed the forest inventories for all but five of the allotments. Round Valley Forest and Carbon Management BBW is under contract with the Round Valley Tribes to implement their forest management plan for the Tribe's trust and allotted lands. In 2007, BBW managed the marking and sale of about 3.5 MMBF of pine and Douglas-fir from Tribal Lands. BBW is also working with New Forests and the Tribe to initiate a carbon project on approximately 5,000 acres of trust lands. Mattole Restoration Council PTEIR and PTHPs BBW has just recently completed the Program Timberland Environmental Impact Report for MRC's light touch forestry program which has been approved by Cal Fire. In addition, BBW is completing Program THP's for several landowners in the Mattole watershed. Morongo Indian Reservation FMP In 2011, BBW Associates conducted a field inventory of tribal forestlands and prepared a Forest Management Plan and associated EA for the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, in Banning, CA. |
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Information: BBW & Associates PO Box 702 Arcata, CA 95518 Phone: 707-825-0730 |