Protecting the North Yuba landscape with thousands of forest acres thinned and restored in California
Since 2018, partners have been working together to collaboratively plan, analyze, finance, and implement forest restoration across the North Yuba River watershed in Tahoe National Forest. Photo courtesy of Yuba Water Agency
Established in the Sierra Nevada during the Gold Rush of 1849,…
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Picking up sticks: Fire Resilient Landscapes and the public good
Editor's note: The Innovative Finance for National Forests grant program supports partner organizations developing out of the box financial solutions to some of forest management’s most vexing challenges. One partner, Wisewood Energy is focused on reducing small woody materials on the forest floor and how it could mitigate extreme wildfires, improve forest health and provide benefits to…
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Thinning the Forest for the Trees
A massive crane clears a dense forest stand in a forest health management process called mechanical thinning. When a forest has too many trees it creates many problems for the health of the entire ecosystem. (Forest Service photo.)
Imagine you are miles from the nearest highway, in lands where dinosaurs…