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== '''Shasta-Trinity National Forests (SHF - Forest #14) "Redding" KME 2-5''' ==
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== '''Sierra National Forest (SNF - Forest #15) "Sierra" KME 2-6''' ==
  
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The Shasta-Trinity National Forest, the largest of the 18 National Forests in California, was established by President Theodore Roosevelt’s proclamation of 1905. Initially, there were two forests; the Trinity National Forest (headquartered in Weaverville) and the Shasta National Forest (headquartered in Mt. Shasta City). The two forests were administratively combined into one in 1954. Forest Service employees, both on this forest and from National Forests all over the west, refer to the Shasta-Trinity National Forest as "the Shasta-T" 
 
  
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The more westerly section of the forest (formerly the Trinity National Forest) is located in the eastern portions of the California Coast Ranges, with an area of 1,043,677 acres. The more easterly part of the forest (formerly the Shasta National Forest) section is located between California's Central Valley and the Shasta Valley to the north, with an area of 1,166,155 acres. This is a total of 2.1 million acres with over 6,278 miles of streams and rivers ad well as hundreds of lakes. It ranges from 1,000 in elevation (Shasta Lake and its general area) to the spectacular Mt. Shasta with its impressive elevation of 14,162 feet.  The Shasta–Trinity NF lies at the intersection of the eastern Klamath Mountains and the southern Cascades and is largely forested, though at low elevations there are areas of chaparral, woodland, and grassland. At high elevations in the Trinity Alps, Eddys, and Mt. Shasta, forest gives way once again to montane chaparral, subalpine woodlands, and ultimately to alpine rock and scree. The SHF includes portions of five designated Wilderness Areas: Castle Crags, Chanchellulla, Mount Shasta, Trinity Alps and Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel. The main branch of the Trinity River is a designated Wild and Scenic River which runs through the forest. It is located within the 246,087 acre Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area.
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National Forests were called "Forest Reserves" when they were first established by Presidential Proclamation under the Forest Reserve Act of 1891. The U.S. Forest Service was established in 1905 and in 1907, the "Forest Reserves" were all renamed "National Forests."  The Sierra Forest Reserve was established in 1893 and was 6 million acres in size. It covered lands that are now part of Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park: and the Stanislaus, Toiyabe, Inyo and Sequoia National Forests.  The large size of this reserve was too large to manage and the "Sierra South Forest Reserve" was established in 1910, covering the land south of the Kings River.  Other portions of this original forest reserve were eventually split up between the Sierra, Toiyabe, Inyo and Sequoia National Forests. The remaining National Forest land became the present Sierra National Forest.  Located on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada, it is known for its spectacular mountain scenery and abundant natural resources. The Sierra National Forest encompasses more than 1.3 million acres between 900 and 13,986 feet in elevation. The terrain includes rolling, oak-covered foothills, heavily forested middle elevation slopes and the starkly beautiful alpine landscape of the High Sierra. Abundant fish and wildlife, varied mountain flora and fauna and numerous recreational opportunities make the Sierra National Forest an outdoor lover's paradise. The Forest's many rugged wilderness areas makes it one of the most popular National Forests in the United States.  
  
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Congress established the Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity NRA on November 8, 1965. Each of the units encompasses a large reservoir (man made lake) and its surrounding natural features, habitats, and terrain. Whiskeytown NRA, managed by the National Park Service, is comprised of 42,503 acres including the 6,209-foot Shasta Bally (a mountain peak). The U.S. Forest Service manages the 203,587 acre Shasta-Trinity units. Shasta Lake is the largest man-made reservoir in California. When full, the lake has 370 miles of shoreline, which exceeds that of San Francisco Bay. Shasta Lake contains 30,000 surface acres and holds 4,550,000 acre-feet of water. Shasta Lake lies behind Shasta Dam, which is the second largest (after Grand Coulee Dam) and second tallest concrete dam (after Hoover Dam) in the United States.  The Shasta Lake area includes three arms: Sacramento, McCloud, and Squaw / Pit. Each is a wonderland of scenic beauty and phenomenal outdoor recreation.
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Approximately 383,000 acres of the forest are old growth, containing Lodgepole pine (''Pinus contorta''), Red fir (''Abies magnifica''), White fir (Abies concolor), Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) and Ponderosa pine (''Pinus ponderosa'').  The Sierra National Forest has two Giant Sequoia groves, the Nelder Grove and the McKinley Grove.
  
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Trinity Lake, when full, has 145 miles of shoreline, contains 17,000 surface acres and holds 2,500,000 acre-feet of water. Trinity Lake Dam is one of the highest earth filled dams in the world.  The Trinity Lake area can be divided into four subunits: Lewiston lake, Trinity Dam, Stuart Fork, and North Lake areas. .
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The Sierra National Forest is divided into the Bass Lake (District 1) (north of the San Joaquin River) and High Sierra (District 2) (south of the River) Ranger Districts.  The Forest Supervisor's is in Clovis.  
  
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The Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity National Recreation Area was established to manage the recreation use the lakes attract.  The dams forming these lakes are a part of the greater Central Valley Project, built to provide irrigation water for both the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys. 
 
  
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This National Forest contains about 230,136 acres of old growth forest.  The primary tree species include Douglas fir (''Pseudotsuga menziesii var. menziesii''), Tanoak (''Lithocarpus densiflorus''), Pacific madrone (''Arbutus menziesii''), Red fir (''Abies magnifica''), White fir (''Abies concolor''), Ponderosa pine (''Pinus ponderosa'') and Jeffrey pine (''Pinus jeffreyi'').
 
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The forest is divided into management units and Ranger Districts, those being:  the South Fork Management Unit consisting of the Yolla Bolla (District 1) and Hayfork (District 2) Ranger Districts; the Trinity River Management Unit consisting of the Big Bar (District 3) and Weaverville (District 4) Ranger Districts; Whiskeytown-Shasta-Trinity NRA Management Unit consisting of the Shasta Lake (District 5) Ranger District; and the Shasta-McCloud Management Unit consisting of the Mt. Shasta (District 6) and McCloud (District 7) Ranger Districts. The NRA management unit has an office in the Shasta Lake Ranger Station in Redding and shares office space with the Trinity River unit in the Weaverville Ranger Station. The NRA unit also operates the Shasta Lake Visitor Center located across the street from the Shasta Lake Ranger Station, which is located next to northbound I-5 north of Redding just south of the small community of Mountain Gate.  The Forest Supervisor's Office is located adjacent to the Redding Airport, the Redding Air Attack Base, the home of the Redding Hotshot Crew and the Redding Smoke Jumpers and the Operations Northern California GACC. 
 
  
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[[File:R5 Sierra NF RD Map 2014.jpg]]
  
  
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[[File:R5 2014 Shasta Trinity NF Ranger Distict Map.JPG]]
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==='''RADIO SYSTEM'''===
  
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The Sierra National Forest has an "Emergency Net" and an "Admin Net."  The emergency net is used by fire management and law enforcement.  The admin net is for all other functions. Channels have been provided to enable direct or simplex communications on each net.  The installation of 5 of 11 of the NIFC command frequencies in the primary group of channel assignments is unusual.  Another unusual feature of the forest's radio system is that the repeater input or access tone is not transmitted on the output frequency, instead a different set of tones is transmitted on the output.  For example, the input tone for the Shuteye Peak repeater is Tone 5 - 146.2, but the tone transmitted on the output frequency is 82.5.  The assignment of the output tones of the remaining repeaters has not been determined.  They are all in the lower frequency range of CTCSS tones, such as 71.9 and 77.0.  The linking system the forest uses is to be determined.  The system's hub remote base is likely on Musick Mountain or Mt. Givens. 
  
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The Sierra uses the district number,''' function number''', position number identifier system for ranger district non fire management personnel.  The Forest Supervisor's Office uses the '''"function name"''' system position identifier system.  The Bass Lake District Ranger uses "Ranger 1" and the High Sierra District Ranger uses "Ranger 2."  Starting in 2015 the entire forest will be using the '''"function name"''' position identifier system. It is believed that the Bass Lake District will become "Distict 1" and the High Sierra District will become "District 2" when the function name system is established.  A consolidation of the Mariposa Ranger District and the Minarets Ranger District into what is now called the "Bass Lake Ranger District"; and the consolidation of the Pineridge Ranger District and Kings River Ranger District into what is now called the "High Sierra Ranger District;" occurred in the late 1990s.  The fire management function is organized into battalions based on the old ranger districts.  Battalion 1 (the old Mariposa RD) is used for the Jerseydale, Midpines, Westfall and Batterson stations.  Battalion 3 (old Pineridge RD) is used for the Mountain Rest and Big Creek stations.  Battalion 4 (old Kings River RD) is used for the Trimmer, Blue Canyon and Dinkey stations.  Finally, Battalion 5 (old Minarets RD) is used for the North Fork, Clearwater and Minarets stations. It is believed that non fire employees are assigned identifiers with the first number of 2 if they work on the Bass Lake RD and the number 3 if they work on the High Sierra District.  Function numbers are:  2 administrative, 3 ecosystems, 4 timber, 5 lands and special uses, 6 recreation and wilderness, 9 silviculture (art and science of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health and quality of forests and woodlands to meet the diverse needs and values of landowners and society on a sustainable basis).
  
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San Luis National Refuge personnel identify in the 8100 series.  3 of their engines are assigned number in the 3100 series and one in the 8100 series.
  
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The Shasta-Trinity National Forest radio system is not like any other in Region 5.  There are two nets with repeaters, the Forest Net and the Service Net.  The Forest does not have a net called "admin," however, there are 4 management area simplex nets. Local reports are needed to understand how the management area nets are used. For example, is there ever any fire traffic on the management unit nets?  How do field units communicate with each other when they are unable to do so on a management unit net, if at the same time, the Forest Net is saturated with fire traffic?  How is the Service Net used?  Other features of the forest's radio system are needed as well.  Are repeaters and/or remote bases linked with microwave, UHF or some combination of such?  It is also not known how many remote bases exist on the Forest and where they are located.   
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The Sierra National Forest Emergency Command Center provides service to the Sierra National Forest and the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex located adjacent to the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley.  The San Luis NWR Complex includes the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), the Merced NWR, San Joaquin River NWR, and Grasslands Wildlife Management Area. The Complex office is in Los Banos. The Command Center is located at the Fresno Air Attack Base, an interagency Forest Service - Cal Fire facility at the Fresno Airport.  The center is co located with Cal Fire's Fresno-Kings Unit Emergency Command Center.  Each agency is included on the automatic initial attack dispatch plan of the other agency.  The Forest Service dispatchers use the identifier "Sierra."    
  
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==='''Other'''===
 
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Non fire personnel are assigned identifiers using the '''district number''', function number and position number system.  Redding Interagency Command Center provides dispatch services for the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area and CAL FIRE Shasta-Trinity Unit.  It is located the the Cal Fire unit headquarters in Redding.
 
  
  
 
==='''Channel Plan'''===
 
==='''Channel Plan'''===
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|+ style="font-size: larger" | '''Shasta-Trinity National Forests Channel Lineup'''
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|+ style="font-size: larger" | '''Sierra National Forest Channel Lineup'''
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|'''Channel '''||'''Tone(s) '''||'''Rx '''||'''Tx '''||'''Alpha Tag '''||'''Description '''
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|'''Channel '''||'''Tone(s) '''||'''Rx '''||'''Tx '''||'''Alpha Tag '''||'''Description '''||'''Confirmation/ReConfirmatons'''
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|1||||171.4750||171.4750||SNF1 Adm/LE Dir||Sierra NF - Admin/Law Enforcement Net Direct||
 
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|1||||171.5750||171.5750||SHF1 Frst Dir||Shasta-Trinity NF Forest Net Direct
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|2||1-9,12||171.4750||169.8750||SNF2 Adm/LE Rpt||Sierra NF - Admin/Law Enforcement Net Repeater|| (85.4 Hz), also 79.7, 82.5 & 77.0 2016.01 Inigo88/kma371
 
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|2||1-15||171.5750||169.1000||SHF2 Frst Rpt||Shasta-Trinity NF Forest Net Repeater
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|3||||172.2250||172.2250||SNF3 Emer/Fire Dir||Sierra NF - Emergency/Fire Net Direct||
 
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|3||7||167.2250||167.2250||SHF3 S Fork||Shasta-Trinity NF - South Fork Management Unit
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|4||1-9||172.2250||169.9250||SNF4 Emer/Fire Rpt||Sierra NF - Emergency/Fire Net Repeater|| (85.4 Hz) 2015.08 Inigo88
 
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|4||7||168.9625||168.9625||SHF4 T Riv||Shasta-Trinity NF - Trinity River Management Unit
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|5||||168.6625||168.6625||SNF5 R5 Proj||R5 Project ||
 
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|5||7||166.9875||166.9875||SHF5 ShstMcC||Shasta-Trinity NF - Shasta McLoud Management Unit
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|6||||168.0500||168.0500||NIFC T1||NIFC Tac 1||
 
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|6||7||167.7250||167.7250||SHF6 NRA||Shasta-Trinity NF - National Recreation Area
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|7||||168.2000||168.2000||NIFC T2||NIFC Tac 2||
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|8||||168.6000||168.6000||NIFC T3||NIFC Tac 3||
 
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|7||1||154.3400||154.3400||SHF7 Med-A||Med-Alph (Old Medical Net)
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|9||||167.4750||167.4750||A/G 41 CA3 P||National Air-Ground 41 CA Zone 3 Primary||
 
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|8||6||156.0750||156.0750||SHF8 Clcd||Calcord Tone 6 Rx and Tx Sides
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|10||||168.6375||168.6375||A/G 24 CA3 S||National Air-Ground 24 CA Zone 3 Secondary||
 
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|9||||171.5000||171.5000||SHF9 Svc Dir||Shasta-Trinity NF Service Net Direct
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|11||1-4||168.7000||170.9750||NIFC C1 Rpt||NIFC Command 1 Repeater||
 
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|10||1,4,6,12||171.5000||164.8250||SHF10 Svc Rpt||Shasta-Trinity NF Service Net Repeater
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|12||1-4||168.1000||170.4500||NIFC C2 Rpt||NIFC Command 2 Repeater||
 
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|11||||168.0500||168.050||SHF11 NIFC T1||NIFC Tac 1
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|13||1-4||168.0750||170.4250||NIFC C3 Rpt||NIFC Command 3 Repeater||
 
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|12||||168.2000||168.2000||SHF12 NIFC T2||NIFC Tac 2
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|14||1-4||166.6125||168.4000||NIFC C4 Rpt||NIFC Command 4 Repeater||
 
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|13||||168.6000||168.6000||SHF13 NIFC T3||NIFC Tac 3
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|15||1-4||167.1000||169.7500||NIFC C5 Rpt||NIFC Command 5 Repeater||
 
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|14||||167.6000||167.6000||A/G43 CA1 P||National Air-Ground 43 CA Zone 1 Primary
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|16||1||168.6250||168.6250||Natl Air Grd||National Air Guard - Tone 1 Rx & Tx Side||
  
 
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Tone 7 must be used on Channels 3-6 to transmit to any District Office on these frequencies.
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==='''Channel Plan Upcoming Changes'''===
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|'''Channel '''||'''Tone(s) '''||'''Rx '''||'''Tx '''||'''Alpha Tag '''||'''Description '''
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|2||1-9,12||171.4750||163.6875||SNF2 Adm/LE Rpt||Sierra NF - Admin/LE Net Repeater (Changing Late Spring 2016)
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==='''Tones'''===
 
==='''Tones'''===
  
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The Sierra National Forest repeaters transmit a different and non-standard tone on the repeater output frequency. The tone for all repeaters is yet to be determined.  These tones are in the lower CTCSS frequency range, i.e. 67.0 - 97.4.  
  
 
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!Input Tone
 
!Location
 
!Location
 
!CTCSS Tone
 
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!Confirmation/ReConfirmations
 
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|2||Signal Peak||123.0||85.4||2015.08 Inigo88
 
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|6||Black Mtn.||156.7||||
 
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===Related Links===
 
===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.
 
*[[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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Revision as of 19:25, 29 June 2016

(From: US Forest Service - Sierra 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


Sierra National Forest (SNF - Forest #15) "Sierra" KME 2-6

National Forests were called "Forest Reserves" when they were first established by Presidential Proclamation under the Forest Reserve Act of 1891. The U.S. Forest Service was established in 1905 and in 1907, the "Forest Reserves" were all renamed "National Forests." The Sierra Forest Reserve was established in 1893 and was 6 million acres in size. It covered lands that are now part of Yosemite National Park, Kings Canyon National Park: and the Stanislaus, Toiyabe, Inyo and Sequoia National Forests. The large size of this reserve was too large to manage and the "Sierra South Forest Reserve" was established in 1910, covering the land south of the Kings River. Other portions of this original forest reserve were eventually split up between the Sierra, Toiyabe, Inyo and Sequoia National Forests. The remaining National Forest land became the present Sierra National Forest. Located on the western slope of the central Sierra Nevada, it is known for its spectacular mountain scenery and abundant natural resources. The Sierra National Forest encompasses more than 1.3 million acres between 900 and 13,986 feet in elevation. The terrain includes rolling, oak-covered foothills, heavily forested middle elevation slopes and the starkly beautiful alpine landscape of the High Sierra. Abundant fish and wildlife, varied mountain flora and fauna and numerous recreational opportunities make the Sierra National Forest an outdoor lover's paradise. The Forest's many rugged wilderness areas makes it one of the most popular National Forests in the United States.

Approximately 383,000 acres of the forest are old growth, containing Lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), Red fir (Abies magnifica), White fir (Abies concolor), Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi) and Ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa). The Sierra National Forest has two Giant Sequoia groves, the Nelder Grove and the McKinley Grove.

The Sierra National Forest is divided into the Bass Lake (District 1) (north of the San Joaquin River) and High Sierra (District 2) (south of the River) Ranger Districts. The Forest Supervisor's is in Clovis.


R5 Sierra NF RD Map 2014.jpg


RADIO SYSTEM

The Sierra National Forest has an "Emergency Net" and an "Admin Net." The emergency net is used by fire management and law enforcement. The admin net is for all other functions. Channels have been provided to enable direct or simplex communications on each net. The installation of 5 of 11 of the NIFC command frequencies in the primary group of channel assignments is unusual. Another unusual feature of the forest's radio system is that the repeater input or access tone is not transmitted on the output frequency, instead a different set of tones is transmitted on the output. For example, the input tone for the Shuteye Peak repeater is Tone 5 - 146.2, but the tone transmitted on the output frequency is 82.5. The assignment of the output tones of the remaining repeaters has not been determined. They are all in the lower frequency range of CTCSS tones, such as 71.9 and 77.0. The linking system the forest uses is to be determined. The system's hub remote base is likely on Musick Mountain or Mt. Givens.

Other

The Sierra uses the district number, function number, position number identifier system for ranger district non fire management personnel. The Forest Supervisor's Office uses the "function name" system position identifier system. The Bass Lake District Ranger uses "Ranger 1" and the High Sierra District Ranger uses "Ranger 2." Starting in 2015 the entire forest will be using the "function name" position identifier system. It is believed that the Bass Lake District will become "Distict 1" and the High Sierra District will become "District 2" when the function name system is established. A consolidation of the Mariposa Ranger District and the Minarets Ranger District into what is now called the "Bass Lake Ranger District"; and the consolidation of the Pineridge Ranger District and Kings River Ranger District into what is now called the "High Sierra Ranger District;" occurred in the late 1990s. The fire management function is organized into battalions based on the old ranger districts. Battalion 1 (the old Mariposa RD) is used for the Jerseydale, Midpines, Westfall and Batterson stations. Battalion 3 (old Pineridge RD) is used for the Mountain Rest and Big Creek stations. Battalion 4 (old Kings River RD) is used for the Trimmer, Blue Canyon and Dinkey stations. Finally, Battalion 5 (old Minarets RD) is used for the North Fork, Clearwater and Minarets stations. It is believed that non fire employees are assigned identifiers with the first number of 2 if they work on the Bass Lake RD and the number 3 if they work on the High Sierra District. Function numbers are: 2 administrative, 3 ecosystems, 4 timber, 5 lands and special uses, 6 recreation and wilderness, 9 silviculture (art and science of controlling the establishment, growth, composition, health and quality of forests and woodlands to meet the diverse needs and values of landowners and society on a sustainable basis).

San Luis National Refuge personnel identify in the 8100 series. 3 of their engines are assigned number in the 3100 series and one in the 8100 series.

The Sierra National Forest Emergency Command Center provides service to the Sierra National Forest and the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge Complex located adjacent to the San Joaquin River in the Central Valley. The San Luis NWR Complex includes the San Luis National Wildlife Refuge (NWR), the Merced NWR, San Joaquin River NWR, and Grasslands Wildlife Management Area. The Complex office is in Los Banos. The Command Center is located at the Fresno Air Attack Base, an interagency Forest Service - Cal Fire facility at the Fresno Airport. The center is co located with Cal Fire's Fresno-Kings Unit Emergency Command Center. Each agency is included on the automatic initial attack dispatch plan of the other agency. The Forest Service dispatchers use the identifier "Sierra."


Channel Plan

Sierra National Forest Channel Lineup
Channel Tone(s) Rx Tx Alpha Tag Description Confirmation/ReConfirmatons
1 171.4750 171.4750 SNF1 Adm/LE Dir Sierra NF - Admin/Law Enforcement Net Direct
2 1-9,12 171.4750 169.8750 SNF2 Adm/LE Rpt Sierra NF - Admin/Law Enforcement Net Repeater (85.4 Hz), also 79.7, 82.5 & 77.0 2016.01 Inigo88/kma371
3 172.2250 172.2250 SNF3 Emer/Fire Dir Sierra NF - Emergency/Fire Net Direct
4 1-9 172.2250 169.9250 SNF4 Emer/Fire Rpt Sierra NF - Emergency/Fire Net Repeater (85.4 Hz) 2015.08 Inigo88
5 168.6625 168.6625 SNF5 R5 Proj R5 Project
6 168.0500 168.0500 NIFC T1 NIFC Tac 1
7 168.2000 168.2000 NIFC T2 NIFC Tac 2
8 168.6000 168.6000 NIFC T3 NIFC Tac 3
9 167.4750 167.4750 A/G 41 CA3 P National Air-Ground 41 CA Zone 3 Primary
10 168.6375 168.6375 A/G 24 CA3 S National Air-Ground 24 CA Zone 3 Secondary
11 1-4 168.7000 170.9750 NIFC C1 Rpt NIFC Command 1 Repeater
12 1-4 168.1000 170.4500 NIFC C2 Rpt NIFC Command 2 Repeater
13 1-4 168.0750 170.4250 NIFC C3 Rpt NIFC Command 3 Repeater
14 1-4 166.6125 168.4000 NIFC C4 Rpt NIFC Command 4 Repeater
15 1-4 167.1000 169.7500 NIFC C5 Rpt NIFC Command 5 Repeater
16 1 168.6250 168.6250 Natl Air Grd National Air Guard - Tone 1 Rx & Tx Side

Channel Plan Upcoming Changes

Sierra National Forest Channel Lineup
Channel Tone(s) Rx Tx Alpha Tag Description
2 1-9,12 171.4750 163.6875 SNF2 Adm/LE Rpt Sierra NF - Admin/LE Net Repeater (Changing Late Spring 2016)
4 1-9 172.2250 164.7875 SNF4 Emer/Fire Rpt Sierra NF - Emergency/Fire Net Repeater (Changing Fall 2017)
? ? 173.7625 164.8250 SNF? Serv Rpt Sierra NF - Service Net Repeater (Changing Fall 2015)

Tones

The Sierra National Forest repeaters transmit a different and non-standard tone on the repeater output frequency. The tone for all repeaters is yet to be determined. These tones are in the lower CTCSS frequency range, i.e. 67.0 - 97.4.

SNF Repeaters
Input Tone Location CTCSS Tone Output Tone Confirmation/ReConfirmations
1 Mt. Bullion 110.9
2 Signal Peak 123.0 85.4 2015.08 Inigo88
3 Musick Mtn. 131.8
4 Patterson Mtn. 136.5 85.4 2015.08 Inigo88
5 Shuteye Peak 146.2 85.4 2015.08 Inigo88
6 Black Mtn. 156.7
7 Mt. Tom 167.9
8 Delilah 103.5
9 Mt. Givens 100.0 - for use on Channel 2, Admin Net
9 Whitebark Vista 100.0 - for use on Channel 4, Emergency Net
10 Not Assigned 107.2
11 Not Assigned 114.8
12 Fence Meadow 127.3 - for use on Channel 2, Admin Net ONLY

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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Cleveland Klamath Los Padres Plumas Shasta-Trinity Stanislaus
Eldorado Lake Tahoe BMU Mendocino San Bernardino Sierra Tahoe


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