SCH Number 2024060313

Project Info

Title

Little Deer Creek Landscape Resilience Project (SNC 1637)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide funding to the Yuba Watershed Institute to improve forest health conditions through active forest management on land managed by the Bear Yuba Land Trust (BYLT) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) near Nevada City, California. The project would involve hand cutting, pile burning, and mechanical mastication. This project would improve landscape-level forest resilience on approximately 147 acres managed by the BLM and 48 acres managed by the BYLT. Expected outcomes from the project would be to increase ecological resiliency to disturbances, restore vegetation composition, reduce likelihood of large high-severity wildfires, reduce wildfire threat to surrounding communities, reduce risk of water-quality degradation from high-severity wildfires, increase forest-carbon sequestration in the project area, and protect community-recreation resources.

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