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CDOT Team Members <br />CDOT Engineering Scott Ellis <br />External Partners and Contacts <br />City of Fort Collins Lisa Voytko <br />City of Greeley Eric Reckentine <br />Tri- District/Soldier Canyon Filter Plant Rodney Hansen <br />Northern Water Roger Sinden <br />Boulder County Plant Ecologist Claire DeLeo <br />CO State Forest Service Greg Sundstrom <br />E. Treatment Narrative <br />LAND TREATMENTS <br />Aerial Mulching and Seeding <br />Public Lands <br />Aerial application of 5,597 acres of mulch on NFS lands to provide groundcover replacement <br />is recommended. Approximately 90% of the treatment acres (5,037ac.) would be mulched <br />with weed -free agricultural straw. The remaining 10% of the area (560 ac.) would be mulched <br />with wood shreds. Wood shreds would be used in locations such as ridge tops, where winds <br />would likely blow away straw. Mulching treatments are located to address threats to values at <br />risk such as human life and safety, property (primarily homes and roads) and public water <br />supply. <br />Private Lands <br />The NRCS is recommending mulching and seeding on 5,657 acres of private land through the <br />Emergency Watershed Protection (EWP) program to address the significant values at risk <br />caused by the High Park Fire. The acres to be treated have high erosion and sediment <br />delivery rates which will be reduced by the recommended treatments. The treatment areas <br />meet the criteria for treatment listed below. Erosion control materials that will meet treatment <br />objectives are certified weed free agricultural straw. The recommended application rate for <br />straw mulch is 1.5 tons /acre. Seeding will be done with a sterile hybrid cover alone or in <br />combination with a locally adapted native seed mix. Potentially, other USDA programs could <br />be used by individual private land owners to address specific fire related issues that occur on <br />their properties. However due to the Very High Risk associated with human life and safety, <br />the public water supply and property including homes and the non federal road network, the <br />EWP program will provide the most efficient and effective method for addressing the values at <br />risk through a local sponsoring entity. Federal resources for fire rehabilitation on private lands <br />should be targeted to high priority watersheds that reduce erosion, sedimentation, debris <br />flows and will reduce the impacts of noxious weeds. <br />Criteria for treatment polygon locations include one or more of the following: <br />• High and moderate soil burn severity, on slopes between 20% and 60% <br />• Watersheds tributary to the Cache la Poudre River and from which increased hill -slope <br />erosion and sediment delivery to the Cache la Poudre River is highly probable in the <br />first year following the fire (based on soil erosion modeling, hydrologic modeling, map <br />review and field review); or where life and safety or property are at risk. <br />High Park Fire Emergency Stabilization Plan Page 19 <br />