North Yuba Landscape Resilience Project

Scenic image of North Yuba Landscape

What is NYLRP?

The North Yuba Landscape Resilience Project is the largest “green” forest management project in the State of California. The project stretches from New Bullards Bar Reservoir east up to the Sierra Crest along Highway 49. The planning area is approximately 275,000 acres, of which approximately 210,000 acres are National Forest System lands. The watershed includes substantial forest habitat, is an important source of water to downstream users, supports high biodiversity, offers excellent opportunities for recreation, and is home to the communities of Camptonville, Downieville and Sierra City.

Selected by the Forest Service as one of 10 initial landscapes for Bipartisan Infrastructure Law investments in 2022, the project is a landscape-scale, vegetation and fuels management project designed to reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire, promote fire adapted communities, improve forest health and promote mature old growth forest that is resilient to fire, drought, insects and disease.

This project will:

Change fire behavior to protect communities, escape routes, and utility infrastructure
Improve forest health to protect important habitats, enhance resilience to climate change, and promote the growth of old forest ecosystems
Provide economic development in the rural communities in and adjacent to the area

Vist the PROJECT SITE

Here you will find our project documents and a host of information detailing how we came to our proposed decisions and all of the impacts, comments and other input we took into account on the road to implement this project.

NYLRP Area Map

Partners

The Forest Service and a collaborative group of eight partners established the North Yuba Partnership. Together, agencies are working to implement the Forest Service's Wildfire Crisis Strategy in the North Yuba Landscape.

The partnership includes: U.S. Forest Service, Yuba Water Agency, The Nature Conservancy, South Yuba River Citizens League, Camptonville Community Partnership, Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Tribe, National Forest Foundation, Sierra County and Blue Forest Conservation.