Landscape grant pilot update: HELP at work in Crystal Basin; other areas ready for funding
Members of the Healthy Eldorado Landscape Partnership (HELP) and project funders, including the SNC and CAL FIRE, tour the Crystal Basin in the...
Weather whiplash in the Sierra-Cascade and the need to accelerate resilience
Winter began in earnest when an atmospheric river drenched Northern California with record-breaking rainfall totals and dropped a thick blanket of...
Meadow restoration in the Sierra-Cascade—keeping the momentum flowing
Experts and trainees from Trout Unlimited, Anabranch Solutions, and the Tübatulabal Tribe are restoring Troy Meadow in Sequoia National Forest by...
Who’s ready? Scaling forest restoration requires strong partnerships
In recent years, the conversation in California has shifted from whether to invest heavily in climate and wildfire resilience to how to most...
2022 fire season: a break from fire & smoke, but not from risk
The 2022 Sierra Nevada-Cascade fire season was relatively quiet, with approximately 132,000 acres burned, compared with the record-breaking 2020 and...
Signs of a new tree mortality event showing up in the Sierra Nevada
Dead and dying coniferous trees are scattered across the landscape near Yuba Pass in October of 2022. As California wraps up a third consecutive dry...
A Year After the Caldor Fire
One year ago, the world watched as the Caldor Fire ignited in the Sierra Nevada foothills and burned up and over the rocky crest of the mountains to...
The life of a forest & wildfire resilience project
Forest restoration and wildfire risk reduction projects are complex, involving many steps and moving parts that determine whether a project will...