Northern Forests’ 2018 Grant Slate

NFWF CONTACT Candace Leong Manager, Forest [email protected] 415-593-8253

Lassen National Forest OVERVIEW The U.S. Forest Service’s Eldorado National Forest and , in ABOUT NFWF partnership with the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF), have dedicated more Chartered by Congress in 1984, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF) protects and than $6 million for planning and restoration projects that advance fire recovery efforts for restores the nation’s fish, wildlife, Thewatersheds Northern in Californianorthern CaliforniaForests and affected Watersheds by the program’s Power Fire 2018 and Storriegrant slate Fire. awarded over plants and habitats. Working with $1.64 million across eight projects. federal, corporate and individual partners, NFWF has funded more than 4,500 organizations and River watershed. The 2000 Storrie Fire on Lassen National Forest burned 27,000 acres generated a conservation impact The 2004 Power Fire on Eldorado National Forest burned 14,000 acres in the Mokelumne of more than $4.8 billion. Learn more at www.nfwf.org in the North Fork Feather River and Butte Creek watersheds, along with 25,000 acres on . Combined, these two fires burned more than 65,000 acres WESTERN PARTNERSHIP OFFICE of national forest lands and left a significant impact on the landscapes, watersheds and 90 New Montgomery Street ecosystems of the region. Suite 1010 strategies: San Francisco, California 94105 The program funds projects that address four key watershed and forest restoration 415-778-0999 • Watershed restoration and management • Species management NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS • Forest and upland restoration and management 1133 15th Street NW • ecreational and non-natural features Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20005 Management of r 202-857-0166 (continued) Northern California Forests and Watersheds – 2018 Grant Slate

Mokelumne watershed | Credit: ACCG

mile of stream, planting native vegetation, and monitoring restorationBased on proposals and management, received, grants (2) species in 2018 management were awarded and $215,450 (3)to projects management across of three recreational key strategies: and non-natural (1) watershed features. habitat and water flow benefits. Developing High-Priority Meadow Restoration Designs WATERSHED RESTORATION AND MANAGEMENT for Lassen National Forest

The following projects seek to improve watershed quality meadowPoint Reyes restoration Bird Observatory designs for dba meadows Point Blue within Conservation the Storrie and habitat. Projects can improve hydrologic connectivity Science will identify and develop up to five high-priority and aquatic organism passage; remove invasive species The project will assess 90 meadow data sets and group orthreatening improve existing aquatic watersheds,habitat or sensitive meadows, species; fens, riparianrestore Fire boundary on Lassen National Forest in California. corridorsand/or enhance and instream instream habitats. flow; or create, maintain, and/ recommendations, perform meadow site visits, and develop them by restoration need, develop restoration group Developing Restoration Designs for Three Meadows on Eldorado National Forest restorationup to five meadow implementation. restoration designs and associated Amador Resource Conservation District will develop $431,290environmental compliance documents required for future restoration designs for three meadows and meadow Developing Upper Humbug Valley Meadow Restoration Designs for Lassen National Forest projectboundaries will totalinggenerate 50 designs acres withinfor 13 acresthe Power of meadow Fire and boundary on Eldorado National Forest in California. The 23 acres of meadows and meadow boundaries, and develop Plumas Corporation will develop meadow restoration 37 acres of meadow boundary, thin and remove conifers on Forestdesigns in for California. Yellow Creek The project1 and 2 will within create Upper restoration Humbug for future restoration. designsValley and for the 47 Storrieacres of Fire meadow, boundary 90 acres on Lassen of riparian National $211,681environmental compliance documents which are required corridor, and generate environmental compliance

Foster Meadow’s Aquatic Organism Passage and $300,834 Meadow Restoration on Eldorado National Forest documents required for future restoration implementation. Warner Mountains Meadow Restoration near ForestPlumas in Corporation California. Thewill projectrestore willa meadow enhance and watershed aquatic California Deer Association will perform 878 acres of organism passage at Foster Meadow on Eldorado National hydrology by restoring 21 meadow acres, opening one (continued)meadow restoration on Alaska Canyon, Dry Creek, and Callie Northern California Forests and Watersheds – 2018 Grant Slate

Forest in California. The project will restore meadows, Spring within the Warner Mountains near Modoc National forremove mule conifers deer, antelope and juniper, and sage improve grouse. water flow, and $100,000monitor the restored areas, benefiting migratory corridors

SPECIES MANAGEMENT endangered species or species of special concern, and/ The following projects seek to benefit threatened and or conduct restoration activities that can benefit a suite of species, community or habitat. Projects can evaluate, restore or improve habitat specific to a species or suite of species of aboutinterest; issues perform concerning research these that species improves and understanding actions that can of species/population needs; or inform and educate the public Pacific marten | Credit: USFS

Developingbe taken to protect a Pacific them. Marten Habitat Connectivity Model for Lassen National Forest National Council for Air and Stream Improvement will develop a Pacific marten habitat connectivity model within modelthe Storrie that FireLassen boundary National for Forest Lassen can National use for Forestfuture inmarten habitatCalifornia. restoration The project and will management. develop a data-tested, flexible $254,731

Evaluating Meadow Restoration Techniques and Benefits for Sierra Amphibians using eDNA threeWashington threatened State or University endangered Vancouver amphibians will evaluate throughout multiple meadow restoration techniques and benefits for restoration effects on the Yosemite toad, Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog | Credit: USFWS Sierra Nevada in California. The project will study meadow yellow-legged frog and mountain yellow-legged frog, create localmeadow agencies restoration and practitioners. technique recommendations, and breaks; restore lands impacted from past fire management $25,000develop workshops and reports for key federal, state, and activities; implement best management practices to reduce U.S.invasive Forest species Service and/or approved pollutant user-created loads (particularly trails, roads those or MANAGEMENT OF RECREATIONAL campsites.from sediment/erosion); or restore and prevent non- AND NON-NATURAL FEATURES Performing Trail Maintenance for Soda Creek and non-natural features such as trails, roads, campsites Indian Springs on Lassen National Forest The following project seek to manage recreational and Student Conservation Association will perform trail improvement.and fuel breaks, and must be able to illustrate a benefit to watershed restoration and recovery or ecosystem Nationalmaintenance Forest for in Soda California. Creek and The Indian project Springs will provide for nearly critical The project can conduct field condition assessments traileight maintenance miles within thatthe Storriewill reduce Fire boundaryerosion and on includes Lassen and/or management recommendations to critical trails, reduction of user created trails, hazard tree and overgrown vegetation removal, sign installation, and other trail or improve degraded trails, roads, campsites or fuel improvements. roads, campsites or fuel breaks; relocate, maintain, and/ $130,509