Sierra Foothill Forest and Climate Resilience Project
Project Overview
Basics
Sierra Foothill Forest and Climate Resilience Project
Implementation
Landscape-scale forestry project including a Firewise community, three outdoor school parcels and BLM land. Funded by the Wildlife Conservation Board.
2021
2023
2027
3/20/2025
Project Attributes
Footprint Acres
625
acres
Location
None Selected
Not adjacent to NF land
Organizations
| Funder | |
| Lead Implementer | |
| Partner | |
| Other Partners | California Heritage Indigenous Research Partnership, Sierra Institute |
Contacts
Erin Andrew - Sierra Streams Institute (SSI) (erin@sierrastreamsinstitute.org)
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | Treatment Phases: Initial Treatment Type: Hand Thinning | 47.6 acres |
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | Treatment Phases: Initial Treatment Type: Mechanical Thinning | 44.1 acres |
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | Treatment Phases: Initial Treatment Type: Broadcast Burning | 8.5 acres |
| Acres Reforested | 6 acres | |
| Completed Planning Documents | Plan Type: Forest Management Plan | 4 count |
Reported Performance Measures
| Acres of Forest Fuels Reduction Treatment | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critical Zone | Treatment Phases | Treatment Type | Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units |
| Unspecified | Initial | Broadcast Burning | 8.5 | N/A | 8.5 | N/A | acres |
| Unspecified | Initial | Mechanical Thinning | 44.1 | N/A | 44.1 | N/A | acres |
| Unspecified | Initial | Hand Thinning | 47.6 | N/A | 47.6 | N/A | acres |
| Total | 100.2 | 0 | 100.2 | 0 | acres | ||
| Acres Reforested | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units | |
| 6 | 3 | 3 | N/A | acres | |
| Total | 6 | 3 | 3 | 0 | acres |
| Completed Planning Documents | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plan Type | Total | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | Units |
| Forest Management Plan | 4 | N/A | N/A | 4 | count |
| Total | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | count |
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| California Wildlife Conservation Board (WCB) | $73,000.00 | $73,000.00 | $73,000.00 | $553,646.54 | $0.00 | $772,646.54 |
| Grand Total | $73,000.00 | $73,000.00 | $73,000.00 | $553,646.54 | $0.00 | $772,646.54 |
| Note: | None provided |
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Pillars of Resilience
Pillars of Resilience
This project improves air quality through the reduction in wildfire severity in the project area.
This project improves biodiversity through planting of climate-smart species and reducing fuels, promoting a "clump and gap" approach. Climate refugia sites are retained for water and habitat retention.
Reducing fuels will enable residual trees to fare better and take in more carbon with accelerated growth.
Working with CCC to clear BLM land aids in workforce development. We also hire a diversity of local contractors to support local businesses.
This project works with the Jones Bar Firewise community specifically to treat across parcels within the WUI to keep this community safer in the event of a wildfire. The outreach for this project also serves as an education component to inform landowners on different treatment types and forest ecology in general.
Fuels reduction in this footprint aims to limit high-severity fire in the area. Gaps and lack of ladder fuels can break up wild fire continuity and transfer fire to the ground.
This project aims for variation in forest structure and reduction of fuels, which promotes forest resilience. By planting tree species that are more drought-adapted and from lower elevation, we aim to encourage climate-resilient forestland in a fire scar.
The Jones Fire (2020) occurred in the project area, burning down infrastructure and forest land. Implementing fuels reduction within and outside this burn scar based on landowner feedback improves a sense of safety in the area. Landowners are encouraged to abate regrowth that occurs from this project, which is made easier by these initial treatments.
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