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News Release:
Fire Safe Council to help Forest Service Collaboration Effort
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US Forest Service
Six Rivers National Forest

Contact:
Julie Ranieri
(707) 441-3673
jranieri@fs.fed.us

Eureka, May 21, 2007

"Based on public feedback during the initial scoping period, which ended March 15, 2007, I have changed the course I am taking with Orleans Community Fuels Reduction and Forest Health (OCFR) Project," said Tyrone Kelley, Forest Supervisor, Six Rivers National Forest. "I want to re-initiate the Roundtable collaborative process using the authorities granted by Congress in the Healthy Forest Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA) to define a proposed action that meets the purpose and need of this project," continued Kelley.

"To be successful in this process, I have asked the Orleans/Somes Bar Fire Safe Council in Orleans to help develop a modified proposal for the OCFR working in collaboration with the Karuk Tribe of California, residents of Orleans and other interested parties," he concluded.

The OCFR Project qualifies as a HFRA project because: 1) the Orleans community has been designated as a "Community at Risk" from wildfire (Federal Register, August 17, 2001, Vol. 66, No. 160), with associated residential developments within an established wildland-urban interface; 2) municipal watershed and numerous domestic water sources within the project area are at risk from wildland fire; and 3) there are areas where wildland fire poses a threat to, and where natural fire regimes are important for, threatened and endangered species and their habitat.

The Forest will have a meeting at the Orleans Elementary School, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on May 31st to define the collaborative process and how the public can be involved. Please contact District Ranger Bill Rice at the Orleans Ranger Station (530) 627-3291 for more information.

Orleans Community Fuels Reduction and Forest Health Project web site: http://www.fs.fed.us/r5/sixrivers/projects/ea/ocfr/.

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