SCH Number 2019068043

Project Info

Title

Sagehen Forest Project - pushing the larger landscape into resiliency through fire (SNC 1056)

Description

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) would provide $1,000,000 in funding to the UC Regents -UC Berkeley- Sagehen Creek Field Station for broadcast burning and pile burning on 1,100 to 4,906 acres of lands in the Tahoe National Forest. These prescribed burning treatments will increase water resources for the ecosystem and downstream water users and enhance key reproductive and foraging habitat for wildlife. Restructuring the forest through low-intensity landscape !eve! burning benefits wildlife and human communities and increases forest resiliency and resistance to destructive wildfire, climate change, and disease and insect infestation.

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