The Sierra Spotlight
The Sierra Spotlight, our digital newsroom, draws upon the regional knowledge and expertise of Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) staff to highlight the most important restoration, scientific, and policy events in California’s Sierra Nevada-Cascade region.
Signs of a new tree mortality event showing up in the Sierra Nevada
After a third consecutive dry year, dead and dying fir trees are increasing across high-elevation forests in northern and central California.
Sly Park meadow restoration boosts water quality, recreation access
The Hazel Creek restoration projects improved the water quality at Jenkinson Lake and expanded recreation access with wheelchair-accessible facilities.
Mammoth Lakes ‘Donut’ Project to benefit eastern Sierra
This multi-year strategy to conduct fuels-reduction treatments on 56,000 acres around Mammoth Lakes will greatly reduce the threat of damaging wildfire.
’Inimim Forest restoration helps protect towns, wildlife habitat
We jointly funded up to 1,200 acres of fuels reduction work near Nevada City in the ‘Inimim Forest, 10 parcels managed by the Bureau of Land Management.
SNC to pilot wildfire resilience landscape investment strategy
In response to our region’s wildfire and forest health crises, our Landscape Grant Pilot Program will test two approaches to increase restoration.
Giant sequoia protection efforts underway in the southern Sierra
We funded the Grant Grove Big Stump Ecological Restoration Project, which will reduce wildfire risk in several groves around Sequoia & Kings Canyon.
Wildfire-safety work completed in South Fork Mokelumne watershed
We funded 285 acres of fuels reduction work in the South Fork Mokelumne River watershed, a high-priority area for protecting communities from wildfire.
A Year After the Caldor Fire
A year after the Caldor Fire ignited near Lake Tahoe, some lessons are clear. What we do before wildfires ignite can make all the difference on the ground.
The life of a forest & wildfire resilience project
We open the hood on forest restoration & wildfire risk reduction projects, showing what it takes to get a project on the ground and to completion.
Sierra Nevada ‘journeys’ for underserved youth continue with ranch acquisition
We provided a $1 million grant to Sierra Nevada Journeys, a nonprofit that provides outdoor programs to kids from Northern California and Nevada.