Carson City Waterfall Fire Rehabilitation Assessment

Beginning with the Waterfall fire of 2004, Resource Concepts, Inc. (RCI) represented Carson City on the BAER team watershed assessment and emergency revegetation efforts. RCI worked with agency specialists to develop site-specific seeding recommendations for various parts of the watershed, and also participated in soils and hydrology analysis with the US Forest Service Specialists on the BAER team. RCI conducted a field evaluation of proposed helicopter landing sites in Ash Canyon and worked extensively to develop a Timber Harvest Plan (THP) for the watershed area.

During the summer of 2005, RCI Foresters marked trees, coordinated with Nevada Division of Forestry, and provided daily inspection for Carson City during the Sierra Pacific Industries, Inc. salvage logging operation. RCI provided recommendations regarding erosion control, road and landing decommissioning, and forest health. In August of 2005, RCI monitored the post-fire vegetation treatments and provided a detailed report of the site conditions. RCI conducted a hydrologic analysis and began developing an engineering design for the Kings Canyon intake, which was affected by the fire. Topographic surveys were completed for both the Phase 1, and future Phase II activities, for the expansion of the existing basin at the outlet of Vicee Canyon.