ANNOUNCEMENT! The Board of Forestry and Fire Protection announces the release of new tools for efficient California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) implementation and Project-Specific Analysis (PSA) preparation. Explore the CalVTP STORYMAP to find out more about the valuable suite of tools and information in this new Resource Library. Find a summary of this information, including links to the updated CalVTP webpage, example PSAs and PSA/Addenda, new FAQs, and implementation tools, here: Information on the CalVTP Resource Library.
Learn More in the CalVTP StoryMap and Resource Library
CalVTP Homepage
The California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP), developed by the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, is a critical component of the state’s multi-faceted strategy to address California’s wildfire crisis. The CalVTP includes the use of prescribed burning, mechanical treatments, manual treatments, herbicide application, and prescribed herbivory as tools to reduce hazardous vegetation around communities in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI), to construct fuel breaks (shaded or non-shaded), and to promote ecological restoration. The CalVTP Program Environmental Impact Report (EIR) provides a powerful California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) compliance tool to expedite the implementation of wildfire resilience projects.
Project proponents can use the CalVTP to comply with CEQA for vegetation treatments consistent with the CalVTP Program EIR.
Who is a project proponent?
- Any local or state agency providing funding or having land ownership and/or management or other regulatory responsibility in the treatable landscape.
- This includes the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE), Counties, Cities, Water Agencies, Special Districts, Open Space Districts, State Parks, California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), Universities, Conservancies, and many other state and local public agencies.
AT-A-GLANCE: Navigating the CalVTP
See the At-a-Glance panes below to review the functions and information available in the four corresponding CalVTP topics.
Read the CalVTP Program EIR and Supporting CEQA Documents
- Vol I: Response to Comments on Draft Program EIR
- Vol II: Final Program EIR
- Vol II: Appendices to the Program EIR
- Supporting CEQA Documentation
Access the CalVTP Resource Library
- Example PSAs and PSA/ Addenda *NEW*
- MMRP Implementation Tools *NEW*
- PSA Templates
- FAQs and Other Resources *NEW*
- Webinars Trainings
- Additional Regulatory Streamlining Options
- CDFW Contacts for CalVTP Projects
View CalVTP Projects
- Proposed Projects Online Viewer
- Approved and Completed Projects Online Viewer
- Approved PSAs and Other Environmental Documentation
- Download CalVTP Projects Spatial Data *NEW*
Submit Your CalVTP Project
- Treatable Landscape Viewer and Calculator Tool *NEW*
- Review Data Entry Guide
- Proposed Projects
- Online Submission *NEW* or
- Manual Submission of SPR AD-7 Form and Spatial Files
- Approved and Completed Projects
- Manual Submission of Environmental Documentation and Spatial Files
Read the CalVTP Program EIR and Supporting CEQA Documents
- Cover/Title Page & Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Responses to Comments - Sections 2.1 (List of Commenters), 2.2 (Master Responses), & 2.3.1 (Agencies)
- Chapter 2 Responses to Comments - Section 2.3.2 (Elected Officials)
- Chapter 2 Responses to Comments - Section 2.3.3 (Organizations)
- Chapter 2 Responses to Comments - Section 2.3.4 (Individuals)
- Chapter 3 References
- Appendix A, part 1 – Agency Comment Letters (PDF)
- Appendix A, part 2 – Elected Official Comment Letters (PDF)
- Appendix A, part 3 – Organization Comment Letters (PDF)
- Appendix A, part 4 – Individual Comment Letters (PDF)
- Appendix A, part 5 – Comment Letters Received after the Close of the Comment Period (PDF)
- Appendix B - Mitigation Monitoring and Reporting Program
- Cover/Title Page & Table of Contents
- Executive Summary
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Chapter 2 Program Description
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.1 Approach to the Environmental Analysis
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.2 Aesthetics and Visual Resources
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.3 Agriculture and Forestry Resources
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.4 Air Quality
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.5 Archaeological, Historic, and Tribal Cultural Resources
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.6 Biological Resources 1 of 2
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.6 Biological Resources 2 of 2
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.7 Geology, Soils, and Mineral Resources
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.8 Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.9 Energy Resources
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.10 Hazardous Materials, Public Health and Safety
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.11 Hydrology and Water Quality
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.12 Land Use and Planning, Population and Housing
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.13 Noise
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.14 Recreation
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.15 Transportation
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.16 Public Services, Utilities and Service Systems
- Chapter 3 Environmental Setting, Impacts, and Mitigation Measures - Section 3.17 Wildfire
- Chapter 4 Cumulative Effects Analysis
- Chapter 5 Significant Effects and Growth Inducing Impacts
- Chapter 6 Alternatives
- Chapter 7 List of Preparers
- Chapter 8 References
- Appendix A - Notice of Preparation (PDF)
- Appendix A - Notice of Preparation Comments (PDF)
- Appendix PD-1 - Description of Treatable Landscape Modeling (PDF)
- Appendix PD-2 - Example Burn Plan/Smoke Management Plan (PDF)
- Appendix PD-3 - Project-Specific Analysis
- Appendix AQ-1 - Treatment Activity Emissions (PDF)
- Appendix AQ-2 - Example Incident Action Plan (PDF)
- Appendix BIO-1 - Descriptions of CWHR Types (PDF)
- Appendix BIO-2 - Wildlife Connectivity Rankings Map and Acreage Table (PDF)
- Appendix BIO-3 - Special-Status Species Tables (PDF)
- Appendix BIO-4 - Critical Habitat by Ecoregion (PDF)
- Appendix HAZ-1 - 2019 Update of Herbicide Toxicity Information (PDF)
- Appendix HAZ-2 - 2017 Herbicide Toxicity Information (PDF)
- Appendix HYD-1 - Waste Discharge Waivers for Timber and Vegetation Management Activities (PDF)
- Appendix NOI-1 - Noise Measurement Data and Noise Modeling Calculations(PDF)
Access the CalVTP Resource Library
User Guide for the below Implementation Tools
Implementation Planning and Documentation:
- Pre-Implementation Checklist for Qualified RFPs and Biologists (PDF)
- Pre-Implementation Checklist for Qualified RFPs and Biologists (Fillable PDF)
- Biological Resources Worker Training
- Completion Report Template
Species Information for Implementation Planning:
- Blooming Period by Species Name
- Blooming Period by Bloom Period
- Special-Status Plants and Wildlife Sensitive Season Limited Operating Periods Chart
- Special-Status Plants Elevation Zones
- Special-Status Wildlife Elevation Zones
Flow Charts for Implementation of Applicable Measures:
- Special-Status Plant Measures Flow Chart
- Special-Status Wildlife Measures Flow Chart (PDF)
- Special-Status Wildlife Measures Flow Chart (Fillable Word template)
- Sensitive Natural Communities and Oak Woodland Measures Flow Chart
- Chaparral and Coastal Sage Scrub Habitat Measures Flow Chart
- Riparian Habitat Measures Flow Chart
- Wetland and Watercourses Measures Flow Chart
- CalVTP FAQs *NEW*
- CDFW Contacts for CALVTP Projects
- Evaluation of Specialized Biomass Processing Technologies White Paper
- Can be used to support addition of air curtain burners, carbonators, and more to CalVTP Projects.
- CalVTP Implementation Training Spring 2021 – How to Use the CalVTP Program EIR for CEQA Streamlining - YouTube
- CalVTP Implementation Training Spring 2021– How to Use the CalVTP Program EIR for CEQA Streamlining - PDF
Additional Webinar Trainings
- Understanding the CalVTP: a Virtual Training for Beginners
- CalVTP in Practice: Lompoc Valley Fuels Reduction Project Purisima Ridge Fuel Break – November 3, 2022
- CalVTP Question and Answer Webinar – November 9, 2022
- CalVTP & PWP in Practice: Covell Ranch Forest Health – December 6, 2022
- CalVTP in Practice: Sequoia Lake Case Study Webinar
- CalVTP Field Training: Covell Ranch Forest Health Fuels Reduction in the WUI – web resources
- CalVTP Regulatory Streamlining Summary
- State Water Resources Control Board Vegetation Treatment General Order
- Monterey County Forest Health and Fire Resilience Public Works Plan (PWP)
- San Mateo County Forest Health and Fire Resilience Public Works Plan (PWP)
- Santa Cruz County Forest Health and Fire Resilience Public Works Plan (PWP)
- Upper Salinas-Las Tablas Resource Conservation District Forest Health and Fire Resilience Public Works Plan (PWP)
View CalVTP Projects
Submit Your Project
To aid in the planning of your VTP project, the Treatable Landscape Calculator tool can estimate the acres of your project within and outside of the ‘Treatable Landscape’. Before using the tool, download and read the Treatable Landscape Calculator User Guide HERE. *NEW*
- Data Entry Guide How to submit proposed, approved, and completed projects.
Proposed Projects
- Option 1: Online Submission *NEW*
- Option 2: Email Completed SPR AD-7 form and Proposed Projects Spatial Files
Approved and Completed Projects
- Option 1: Online Submission *Coming in 2024*
- Option 2: Email Environmental Documentation (e.g., PSA, PSA/Addendum, MMRP) and Approved and Completed Projects Spatial Files
