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NFWF CONTACTS Jim Bond Senior Manager, California Forests Southern California Forests and Watersheds [email protected] 415-243-3107

Jessica Perla Coordinator, Regional Programs Program Operations [email protected] 202-595-2422

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ABOUT NFWF Chartered by Congress in 1984, the National Fish and Wildlife Forest fire in Angeles National Forest Foundation (NFWF) protects and OVERVIEW restores the nation’s fish, wildlife, The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) and the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) plants and habitats. Working with announced in August 2020 a round of funding for Southern California Forests and federal, corporate and individual Watersheds projects. Eleven new or continuing land and watershed recovery grants partners, NFWF has funded more totaling $2.5 million were awarded. The eleven awards announced generated $1.6 million than 5,000 organizations and in match from the grantees, providing a total conservation impact of $4.1 million. generated a total conservation impact of $6.1 billion. The Southern California Forests and Watersheds program invests in projects on the Angeles National Forest (ANF) and the Los Padres National Forest (LPNF) that aim to Learn more at www.nfwf.org capacity to effectively identify and address resource management issues caused from NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS restore watersheds affected by historic fire events. Investments will improve the USFS’s 1133 15th Street, NW trails, roads, and fuel breaks to support the goals of ecological restoration, while building Suite 1000 these fires, aid ecological recovery, and repair fire-damaged critical infrastructure such as Washington, D.C., 20005 202-857-0166 partnerships that encourage shared-stewardship(continued) of public lands. 2020 GRANT SLATE

Post fire landscape in Angeles National Forest

Improving Plant Diversity in Fire Affected Watersheds in and subsequently implement measures to reduce erosion Angeles National Forest (CA) from 13 stream crossing sites and 20 road surface discharge Grantee: California Botanic Garden sites, hydrologically disconnect 4 miles of road surfaces and Grant Amount:...... $201,552 cutbanks contributing to sedimentation, and restore altered Matching Funds: ...... $231,955 hydrologic runoff processes along 5 miles of road. Total Project:...... $433,507 Assessing the Restoration of Ecosystem Services in Post- Fire Chaparral Landscapes (CA) restorationImprove capacity of threatened for resource and endangered management plant and species,promote Grantee: monitoringresilience for and future assessment wildfires of through past and seed ongoing collection, chaparral Grant Amount:...... $425,413 restoration sites, and development of a best management MatchingUniversity Funds: . . of. .California . . . . . - Davis...... $214,406 practices and propagation manual for chaparral and coastal Total Project:...... $639,819 sage scrub species. Project will work to enhance and restore Assess and pilot restoration on targeted sites within the Piru biodiversity on the Angeles National Forest. wildlands following wildfire and protect the sensitive degradedfire scar in chaparral the LPNF. sites Project in comparison will collect todata unrestored on resultant sites Bird Surveys, Habitat Mapping, and Non-Native Cowbird toecosystem help inform services restoration benefits outcomes to assess and the prioritizeimpact on future restored Removal in Los Padres National Forest (CA) recovery work. Grantee: United Water Conservation District Grant Amount:...... $154,440 Tamarisk Removal and Monitoring in the Sisquoc River Matching Funds: ...... $78,708 Watershed in Los Padres National Forest (CA) Total Project:...... $233,148 Grant Amount:...... $239,191 native cowbirds in riparian areas within the LPNF to provide MatchingGrantee: Channel Funds: . Islands. . . . Restoration...... $109,360 dataConduct on sensitive habitat mapping, riparian birdcomplete populations. surveys, Project and trap will non- map Total Project:...... $348,551 breeding areas and trap cowbirds within the Piru Creek Treat and monitor tamarisk trees and seedlings in the watershed to assess the size and distribution of sensitive bird effort to eradicate the species from the upper watershed. management decisions and protect existing populations. ProjectSisquoc willRiver complete and nine surveys tributaries and awithin combination the LPNF in an species such as least Bell’s vireo in order to inform future of treatments, in addition to monitoring previously Manzana Creek Watershed Sediment Reduction, Aquatic completed tamarisk treatments. Protection and Road Restoration (CA) Improving Forest Health of Sawmill Liebre Plantations Grant Amount:...... $423,908 Affected by the Powerhouse Fire (CA) MatchingGrantee: Earth Funds: Island. . . Institute,. . . . . Inc...... $ 383,345 Grantee: National Forest Foundation Total Project:...... $807,253 Grant Amount:...... $120,236 Matching Funds: ...... $66,788 measures at active road sediment source sites within Total Project:...... $187,024 theImplement Manzana erosion Creek controlWatershed and in sediment the LPNF. prevention Project will support necessary environmental compliance processes Project Summary: Enhance and support post-fire restoration in the Powerhouse fire scar on the ANF. Project will treat 2020 GRANT SLATE

will treat 100 acres and will include the development of all

Trailappropriate Restoration safety withinmeasures, the includingJesusita Fire a fire Scar plan. in Los Padres National Forest (CA)

Grant Amount:...... $73,334 Grantee:Matching The Funds: Student. . . Conservation...... Association,...... Inc. . . .$15,994 Total Project:...... $89,328

area on the LPNF. Project will support a trail team that will completeRepair fire-damaged trail corridor trails brushing, within repairthe Jesusita trail tread, Fire burn rebuild drainage structures, and rebuild rock walls that support and prevent trail degradation on steep slopes. California condor Interpretive Signage for Areas Impacted by the Copper and native conifer plantations and oak stands through brush Powerhouse Fires (CA) canopy reduction, pruning, thinning, and dead tree removal along 120 acres to improve ecological function and resilience Grant Amount:...... $65,000 MatchingGrantee: Amigos Funds: .de . los. . Rios...... $65,000 Total Project:...... $130,000 Removalto future fires.of Invasive Spanish Broom in Los Padres National Forest (CA) PowerhouseResearch, develop, Fire impacts and produce on the educational, ANF. Project interpretive, will produce Grant Amount:...... $479,884 signageand wayfinding that includes signage information to boost awareness related to ofthe Copper ecology and and MatchingGrantee: Cachuma Funds: . .Resource . . . . .Conservation ...... District . . . . . $254,767 Total Project:...... $734,651 trail users, which will enhance trail sites, increase awareness Eradicate two isolated, invasive Spanish broom populations history of the region in addition to wayfinding information for in the LPNF to prevent further infestation. Project will apply herbicide treatments to invasives followed by planting of fire ecology, and promote responsible forest stewardship. of native chaparral plant species, and will also install interpretive signage to educate the public on invasive plant

Tamariskmanagement Removal and native in the plant Upper restoration Santa Ynez following River wildfires. Watershed in Los Padres National Forest (CA)

Grant Amount:...... $149,468 MatchingGrantee: Channel Funds: . Islands. . . . Restoration...... $146,800 Total Project:...... $296,268 Survey, locate, and treat tamarisk trees and seedlings in tributarythe upper streams Santa Ynez and River canyons and upstream monitor previously of Gibraltar treated Dam, recordtrees. Project the locations will survey of all the tamarisk upper treesSanta and Ynez seedlings, River and 14 additional tamarisk trees where encountered. monitor the results of last year’s treatments, and treat Treatment and Removal of Golden Spotted Oak Borer Infestations in Green Valley (CA) Grantee: California Conservation Corps Grant Amount:...... $172,733 Matching Funds: ...... $28,086 Total Project:...... $200,819 Treat and remove trees infested with the golden spotted oak borer within the Green Valley area and within the vicinity Angeles Nationa Forest of the Sawmill Liebre Road in the ANF in California. Project