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(From: US Forest Service - Plumas National Forest (CA) )

US Forests in California:
Angeles	Inyo	Lassen	Modoc	Sequoia	Six Rivers
Cleveland	Klamath	Los Padres	Plumas	Shasta-Trinity	Stanislaus
Eldorado	Lake Tahoe BMU	Mendocino	San Bernardino	Sierra	Tahoe

Plumas National Forest (PNF - Forest #11) "Plumas" KMD 7-8-0

The Plumas National Forest occupies 1,146,000 acres of scenic mountain lands in the northern Sierra Nevada. Management of the Plumas National Forest has been the responsibility of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, since the Forest was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905. Situated in the Sierra Nevada, just south of the Cascade Range, the Plumas is versatile in its land features, uncrowded, and enhanced by a pleasant climate. Outdoor enthusiasts are attracted year round to its many streams and lakes, beautiful deep canyons, rich mountain valleys, meadows, and lofty peaks. Beginning in the foothill country near Lake Oroville, the Plumas extends through heavily timbered slopes and into the rugged high country near U.S. Highway 395. State Highway 70 between Oroville and U.S. Highway 395 provide year round access, and State Highway 89 provides convenient connections through Tahoe.

The forest includes 127,000 acres of the old growth forest. This consists primarily of Coast Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii), Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa), White fir (Abies concolor), Red Fir (Abies magnifica) and Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi).

The Plumas National Forest is divided into the Beckworth (District 1), Mt. Hough ("Huff") (District 2) and Feather River (District 3) Ranger Districts with the Forest Supervisor's Office in Quincy.

RADIO SYSTEM

The Forest has a Forest Net, an Admin Net, and a Service Net. It is possible to use a direct (simplex) channel on the Service Net, but not on the other two repeater networks. The Plumas used to link their repeaters with microwave and perhaps it is still in place, however,contacting the Ranger District offices and the dispatcher was possible on the simplex channel of each net. The user selected the simplex net and the tone for the repeater site they were in range of allowing direct communications with all the offices and the Emergency Communications Center. The radios could also switch to the repeater channel and use the same tone to key up the repeater. Direct or simplex calling of the dispatcher and ranger stations is no longer available.

Other

The unit identifiers for non-fire personnel on the Plumas use the function name, district number, position number system. Employees assigned to the Forest Supervisor's Office use the number "6" after the function name. The Plumas National Forest Emergency Communications Center provides service to the Plumas NF only. It is only one of two such federal centers in California that do not provide service to other federal agencies or co-located with a Cal Fire ECC. The other dispatch center similar is the Stanislaus National Forest Dispatch Center. The identifier used by the center is "Plumas."

Channel Plan

**Plumas National Forest Channel Lineup**
Channel	Tone(s)	Rx	Tx	Alpha Tag	Description
1	1-14	170.5500	169.9000	PNF1 FrstRep	Plumas NF Forest Net Repeater
2	1-14	171.4250	172.3500	PNF2 AdmRpt	Plumas NF Admin Net Repeater
3	1-14	164.1250	164.8250	PNF3 Serv Rpt	Plumas NF Service Net Repeater
4		164.1250	164.1250	PNF4 Serv Dir	Plumas NF Service Net Direct
5		168.2000	168.2000	PNF5 NIFC T2	NIFC Tac 2
6		167.5000	167.5000	PNF6 A/G14 CA2 P	National Air-Ground 14 CA2 Zone Primary
7		168.0500	168.0500	PNF7 NIFC T1	NIFC Tac 1
8		168.6000	168.6000	PNF8 NIFC T2	NIFC Tac 3
9		168.6625	168.6625	PNF9 R5 Proj	Region 5 Project

Channel Plan Upcoming Changes

**Plumas National Forest Channel Lineup**
Channel	Tone(s)	Rx	Tx	Alpha Tag	Description
1	1-14	170.5500	164.8750	PNF1 FireRep	Plumas NF Fire Net Repeater (Changes Spring 2016)
2	1-14	171.4250	163.1625	PNF2 AdmRpt	Plumas NF Admin Net Repeater (Changes 2017)
3	1-14	171.5000	164.8250	PNF3 Serv Rpt	Plumas NF Service Net Repeater (Completed Summer 2015)
4		171.5000	171.5000	PNF4 Serv Dir	Plumas NF Service Net Direct (Completed Summer 2015)

Tones

Information about the tones transmitted on the output frequency is unavailable.

Plumas NF Repeaters
Tone	Location	CTCSS Tone
1	Black Mtn.	110.9
2	Sage Mtn.	123.0
3	Thompson Peak	131.8
4	Mills Peak	136.5
5	Kettle Rock	146.2
6	Mt. Hough	156.7
7	Dixie Mtn.	167.9
8	Claremont	103.5
9	Bloomer	100.0
10	Big Bar	107.2
11	Sunset	114.8
12	Pike Country	127.3
13	Lexington	141.3
14	Red Hill	151.4

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-(From: [[US Forest Service - Modoc National Forest (CA)]] )
+(From: [[US Forest Service - Plumas National Forest (CA)]] )
 {{USFSinCA}}
-== '''Modoc National Forest (MDF - Forest #09) "Modoc" KMB 700''' ==
+== '''Plumas National Forest (PNF - Forest #11) "Plumas" KMD 7-8-0''' ==
-“The Smiles of Gods” is what the Native Americans, who first settled this land, called it. The forest is named for the county in which the greater part of the forest is situated. The county, in turn, is named after the Native American tribe, the Modocs.  The history of the Modoc National Forest begins with the setting aside of two forest reserves by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1904 at the request of the local ranchers. A proclamation by Roosevelt on November 29, 1904 created the Warner Mountains Forest Reserve and the Modoc Forest Reserve, both renamed "National Forests" in 1907 when all Forest Reserves became National Forests.  This same President added an additional 570,000 acres on February 13, 1908, and on July 2, 1908 combined the Warner Mountains and Modoc National Forests into one administrative unit, known thereafter as the Modoc National Forest. The forest covers 1,654,392 acres and is located on the on the huge Modoc Plateau where vegetation tends to be sparse.  Recreation use is low as compared to the other 17 National Forests in California with approximately 175,000 visits.  There are single developed recreation sites on other National Forests in California that have more visits.
+The Plumas National Forest occupies 1,146,000 acres of scenic mountain lands in the northern Sierra Nevada.  Management of the Plumas National Forest has been the responsibility of the Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, since the Forest was established by President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905.  Situated in the Sierra Nevada, just south of the Cascade Range, the Plumas is versatile in its land features, uncrowded, and enhanced by a pleasant climate. Outdoor enthusiasts are attracted year round to its many streams and lakes, beautiful deep canyons, rich mountain valleys, meadows, and lofty peaks.  Beginning in the foothill country near Lake Oroville, the Plumas extends through heavily timbered slopes and into the rugged high country near U.S. Highway 395. State Highway 70 between Oroville and U.S. Highway 395 provide year round access, and State Highway 89 provides convenient connections through Tahoe.
-Separated from the more heavily populated and intensively used areas of the Sacramento Valley by the main Sierra Nevada mountain ranges, the Modoc lies in the extreme northeast corner of California. The topography is diverse, ranging from the forested Warner Mountain range in the east, to the high plateaus dominated by sage steppe and ancient lava flows around Alturas, and culminating at the Medicine Highlands (the largest shield volcano in North America) in the west.  The high desert climate in the valley areas consists of four distinct seasons and an average precipitation of 13 inches, a large part of which comes in the form of snow during the winter months of December to March.  Elevation levels in the Modoc range from 9,906 feet at Eagle Peak in the South Warner Wilderness, to 4,000 feet in the valleys.
+The forest includes 127,000 acres of the old growth forest.  This consists primarily of Coast Douglas fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii''), Ponderosa pine (''Pinus ponderosa''), White fir (''Abies concolor''), Red Fir (''Abies magnifica'') and Jeffrey pine (''Pinus jeffreyi'').
-Some 43,400 acres of the forest have been identified as old growth, consisting primarily of Lodgepole pine (''Pinus contorta''), ponderosa pine (''Pinus ponderosa''), white fir (''Abies concolor''), red fir  (''Abies magnifica'') and incense cedar (''Calocedrus decurrens'').
+The Plumas National Forest is divided into the Beckworth (District 1), Mt. Hough ("Huff") (District 2) and Feather River (District 3)  Ranger Districts with the Forest Supervisor's Office in Quincy.
-The Modoc National Forest is divided into the Warner Mtn. (District 3), Big Valley (District 4), Devil's Garden (District 5) and Doublehead (District 6) Ranger Districts, with the Forest Supervisor's Office in Alturas. The Devil's Garden Ranger District is located in the Forest Supervisor's Office.
-[[File:USFS CA Modoc NF Small Map.png]]
+[[File:R5_Plumas_NF_Mini_Map_2016.PNG]]
 ==='''RADIO SYSTEM'''===
-The Modoc has a Forest Net, Admin Net and Service Net with only 6 repeater sites, the fewest of any National Forest in Region 5.  The is a repeater for each net at each electronic site.  The Modoc's gentle terrain is such that higher points, a few of which have electronic sites on them, sites can "see" a great deal of land.  At least some of the sites are linked by microwave, but not much is known by hobbyists about the location of remote base stations and other design features of the system.
+The Forest has a Forest Net, an Admin Net, and a Service Net.  It is possible to use a direct (simplex) channel on the Service Net, but not on the other two repeater networks.  The Plumas used to link their repeaters with microwave and perhaps it is still in place, however,contacting the Ranger District offices and the dispatcher was possible on the simplex channel of each net.  The user selected the simplex net and the tone for the repeater site they were in range of allowing direct communications with all the offices and the Emergency Communications Center.  The radios could also switch to the repeater channel and use the same tone to key up the repeater.  Direct or simplex calling of the dispatcher and ranger stations is no longer available.
 ==='''Other'''===
-The Modoc National Forest averages 103 wildland fires per year. The Lower Klamath Basin and Modoc National Wildlife Refuges average 8.6 fires per year. The Lava Beds National Monument averages 3.8 fires per year.
+The unit identifiers for non-fire personnel on the Plumas use the '''function name''', district number, position number system.  Employees assigned to the Forest Supervisor's Office use the number "6" after the function name.  The Plumas National Forest Emergency Communications Center provides service to the Plumas NF only.  It is only one of two such federal centers in California that do not provide service to other federal agencies or co-located with a Cal Fire ECC.  The other dispatch center similar is the Stanislaus National Forest Dispatch Center.  The identifier used by the center is "Plumas."
-The unit identifier system for non-fire management is unknown.  It is unknown what number the identifiers of non-fire employees of the Supervisor's Office are based on.  The Modoc Interagency Communications Center coordinates and dispatches resources to respond to wildland fires and all risk incidents within the Modoc National Forest, Lava Beds National Monument and the Lower Klamath Basin and Modoc National Wildlife Refuges.  Ranger District identifiers use the numbers 3, 4, 5 and 6.  Lava Beds National Monument use the number 7 and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service uses the number 8.  The identifier of the Communications Center is "Modoc."
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-|+ style="font-size: larger" | '''Modoc National Forest Channel Lineup'''
+|+ style="font-size: larger" | '''Plumas National Forest Channel Lineup'''
 |'''Channel '''||'''Tone(s) '''||'''Rx '''||'''Tx '''||'''Alpha Tag '''||'''Description '''
 |-
-|1||1||168.7500||168.7500||MDF1 FrstNet Dir||Modoc NF Forest Net Direct
+|1||1-14||170.5500||169.9000||PNF1 FrstRep||Plumas NF Forest Net Repeater
 |-
-|2||1-8||168.7500||170.1750||MDF2 FrstNet Rpt||Modoc NF Forest Net Repeater
+|2||1-14||171.4250||172.3500||PNF2 AdmRpt||Plumas NF Admin Net Repeater
 |-
-|3||1||173.7875||173.7875||MDF3 Adm Dir||Modoc NF Admin Net Direct
+|3||1-14||164.1250||164.8250||PNF3 Serv Rpt||Plumas NF Service Net Repeater
 |-
-|4||1-8||173.7875||162.4875||MDF4 Adm Rpt||Modoc NF Admin Net Repeater
+|4||||164.1250||164.1250||PNF4 Serv Dir||Plumas NF Service Net Direct
 |-
-|5||1-8||164.1000||164.8000||MDF5 Serv Rpt||Modoc NF Service Net Repeater
+|5||||168.2000||168.2000||PNF5 NIFC T2||NIFC Tac 2
 |-
-|6||||168.0500||168.0500||MDF6 NIFC T1||NIFC Tac 1
+|6||||167.5000||167.5000||PNF6 A/G14 CA2  P||National Air-Ground 14 CA2 Zone Primary
 |-
-|7||||168.2000||168.2000||MDF7 NIFC T2||NIFC Tac 2
+|7||||168.0500||168.0500||PNF7 NIFC T1||NIFC Tac 1
 |-
-|8||||168.6000||168.6000||MDF8 NIFC T3||NIFC Tac 3
+|8||||168.6000||168.6000||PNF8 NIFC T2||NIFC Tac 3
 |-
-|9||||167.6000||167.6000||MDF9 AG43 P||National Air to Ground 43 CA Zone 01 Primary
+|9||||168.6625||168.6625||PNF9 R5 Proj||Region 5 Project
+|}
+==='''Channel Plan Upcoming Changes'''===
+{| border="4" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="0" style="margin: 1em 1em 1em 0; background: #f9f9f9; border: 2px #777777 solid; border-collapse: collapse;" class="wikitable sortable"
+|+ style="font-size: larger" | '''Plumas National Forest Channel Lineup'''
+|'''Channel '''||'''Tone(s) '''||'''Rx '''||'''Tx '''||'''Alpha Tag '''||'''Description '''
 |-
-|10||||168.6625||168.6625||MDF10 R5 Proj||Region 5 Project/Fire Net
+|1||1-14||170.5500||164.8750||PNF1 FireRep||Plumas NF Fire Net Repeater (Changes Spring 2016)
 |-
-|11||4||171.6250||171.6250||MDF11 NODFireD||BLM Northern California District Fire Net Direct
+|2||1-14||171.4250||163.1625||PNF2 AdmRpt||Plumas NF Admin Net Repeater (Changes 2017)
 |-
-|12||1-8||171.6250||164.2500||MDF12 NODFireR||BLM Northern California District Fire Net Repeater
+|3||1-14||171.5000||164.8250||PNF3 Serv Rpt||Plumas NF Service Net Repeater (Completed Summer 2015)
 |-
-|13||||151.2500||151.2500||MDF13 LMU Dir||Cal Fire Lassen-Modoc-Plumas Local Direct
+|4||||171.5000||171.5000||PNF4 Serv Dir||Plumas NF Service Net Direct (Completed Summer 2015)
 |-
-|14||xx||151.2500||159.405||MDF14 LMU Rpt||Cal Fire Lassen-Modoc-Plumas Local Repeater
 |}
-On Channels 1 & 3 Tone 1 (110.9) must be used to contact dispatch or a Ranger District office.
 ==='''Tones'''===
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-|+ style="font-size: larger; font-weight: bold;" |MDF Repeaters
+|+ style="font-size: larger; font-weight: bold;" |Plumas NF Repeaters
 !Tone
 !Location
 !CTCSS Tone
 |-
-|1||Channels 1&3||110.9
+|1||Black Mtn.||110.9
 |-
-|2||Sugar Hill||123.0
+|2||Sage Mtn.||123.0
 |-
-|3||Likely Mtn.||131.8
+|3||Thompson Peak||131.8
 |-
-|4||49 Mtn.||136.5
+|4||Mills Peak||136.5
 |-
-|5||Grouse Mtn.||146.2
+|5||Kettle Rock||146.2
 |-
-|6||Fire Repeater||156.7
+|6||Mt. Hough||156.7
 |-
-|7||Red Shale Butte||167.9
+|7||Dixie Mtn.||167.9
 |-
-|8||Widow Mtn.||103.5
+|8||Claremont||103.5
+|-
+|9||Bloomer||100.0
+|-
+|10||Big Bar||107.2
+|-
+|11||Sunset||114.8
+|-
+|12||Pike Country||127.3
+|-
+|13||Lexington||141.3
+|-
+|14||Red Hill||151.4
 |}
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 ===Related Links===
 *[[National Incident Radio Support Cache]] - These frequencies are used for large incidents, usually when a Type I or Type II Incident Management Team is assigned. This cache is used for fires, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, visits of high ranking officials, such the U.S. President and the presidents of other countries, large law enforcement incidents, special events and other incidents where the federal government is utilizing the Incident Command System.

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