A meadow below Deadman’s Peak, just a short distance east of Champman CampgroundBASSETTS — Starting this past September, the Upper North Yuba Forest Resilience Project commenced, and we are delighted to report the results are simply astounding.
Back in 2018, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC), a State of California agency created by legislation passed in 2004 with a mandate to aid in the preservation of working landscapes, reducing the risk of wildfires, plus protecting and improving water and air quality, awarded a grant of $500,000 to Sierra County to help fund the thinning 267 acres of conifers lining the Highway 49 “scenic” corridor from just below the headwaters of the North Yuba to roughly a quarter mile east of Bassetts Station.
In addition, the US Forest Service allocated $2.7 million to support the thinning work, and the sale of timber and biomass was slated to complete the funding of the $3.7 million project.
For a variety of reasons, including the intense fire seasons of 2020 ...