Forest Practices
Encouraging appropriate forest management:
The Council provides local residents with up-to-date information about potential timber harvest activities and helps involve the public in the decision-making process.
If you want to read more information on any Timber Harvest Plan (THP), you can go to the Cal-Fire website, Forest Practices Library and download elements of the plan by the numbers here:
ftp://thp.fire.ca.gov/THPLibrary
Click on the north Coast region folder and then find the plans by year (second number below)
Current Timber Harvest Plans:
THP Number Owner Drainage Status Acres Other
1-12-026 Humboldt Redwood Co. East Branch, LNF Approved 253 Selection, VR
Notes: This plan includes some trees on the edge of an older riparian stand
1-12-032 Sierra Pacific Industries Lower North Fork Approved 245 Mostly Clearcut
Notes: This plan is on scattered SPI parcels in the Bear and Lower North Fork, Mattole. It proposes 157 acres of clearcut, tractor yarding, the use of herbicides, winter operations, and minimal stream buffers on the Mattole side. During Second Review, the RPF agreed to restrict winter operations to felling trees in the Mattole units only.
There are three Program Timber Harvest Plans (PTHPs) in the Mattole, PTHPs are committed to the restrictions of the Mattole PTEIR.
PTHP Number Owner Drainage Status Acres Other
PTHP 1-11-100 Wilson Sholes Approved 67
PTHP 1-11-116 Metz Bridge, Thompson Approved 61
PTHP 1-11-123 Sanctuary Forest Bridge Approved 30
The Council provides local residents with up-to-date information about potential timber harvest activities and helps involve the public in the decision-making process.
If you want to read more information on any Timber Harvest Plan (THP), you can go to the Cal-Fire website, Forest Practices Library and download elements of the plan by the numbers here:
ftp://thp.fire.ca.gov/THPLibrary
Click on the north Coast region folder and then find the plans by year (second number below)
Current Timber Harvest Plans:
THP Number Owner Drainage Status Acres Other
1-12-026 Humboldt Redwood Co. East Branch, LNF Approved 253 Selection, VR
Notes: This plan includes some trees on the edge of an older riparian stand
1-12-032 Sierra Pacific Industries Lower North Fork Approved 245 Mostly Clearcut
Notes: This plan is on scattered SPI parcels in the Bear and Lower North Fork, Mattole. It proposes 157 acres of clearcut, tractor yarding, the use of herbicides, winter operations, and minimal stream buffers on the Mattole side. During Second Review, the RPF agreed to restrict winter operations to felling trees in the Mattole units only.
There are three Program Timber Harvest Plans (PTHPs) in the Mattole, PTHPs are committed to the restrictions of the Mattole PTEIR.
PTHP Number Owner Drainage Status Acres Other
PTHP 1-11-100 Wilson Sholes Approved 67
PTHP 1-11-116 Metz Bridge, Thompson Approved 61
PTHP 1-11-123 Sanctuary Forest Bridge Approved 30


