Community Capacity and Land Stewarship Grants
Community Capacity and Land Stewardship Grant information is available at the link below. Deadline is Nov. 19, 2015.
Butte Fire Recovery Resources Meeting Oct. 28, 2015
The University of California Cooperative Extension and the Natural Resources Conservation Service are hosting a meeting focused on post wild fire resources for private land owners. The flyer is below.
Sierra Nevada Conservancy/USFS Webinar for Watershed Improvement Program Oct 8
Dear Partners:
At the Sierra Nevada Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service, your participation and support is critical to our future success. Last year, we decided that the formidable challenges facing us in the Sierra Nevada in the form of drought, tree mortality, uncharacteristically large fires, poor air quality, and climate change required bold action. As you know, we launched the Sierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program in March 2015. We have been hard at work over the last six months building the foundation pieces to support the Program.
We will be hosting a webinar on Thursday, October 8, from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m., to discuss the present status and future plans for the Sierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program and complementary California Headwaters Designation. This will consist of a basic overview of the Program, and a discussion of opportunities to leverage your organizational goals and projects through these two programs. We hope that you can join us for this event, as well as share it with other potential partners. Please include those who may not be located in the Sierra Nevada, but whose future is dependent upon its health.
To review the agenda, visit our partner webinar page. To learn more about the Sierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program, visit our webpage.
Please RSVP for the webinar by October 5, 2015. Webinar access information will be sent once you’ve RSVP’d. Please forward this email to others who might be interested. We look forward to talking with you in October!
Best regards,
| Jim Branham, Executive Officer
(530) 823-4667 (o) (530) 721-0018 (c) Jim.Branham@sierranevada.ca.gov 11521 Blocker Drive, Suite 205 Auburn, CA 95603 |
Articles on Collaboration and Collaboratives
Links to two interesting articles concerning collaboratives.
Collaboration Implementation on Public Lands – Butler et al, 2014
Journal Articles on the Historic Range of Beaver in the Sierra
In relation to the Beaver as a Restoration Tool presentation given by Gordon Long at the last ACCG meeting, links to two articles on the historic range of beaver in the Sierra are provided.
The Historical Range of Beaver in the Sierra Nevada: A Review of the Evidence – Lanman et al, 2012
Deer Valley 4wd Meadow and Blue Lakes Meadow Lake Road Maintenance Project Public Comment Notice
The Amador Ranger District has prepared an Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Deer Valley 4wd Trail and Blue Lakes/Meadow Lake Road Project. Public Comments concerning this action will be accepted for 30 calendar days following publication of the notice in the Mountain Democrat (expected on August 14, 2015). Please see the attached letter (link below) for further information. The EA and supporting documentation are available at: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=45439 . If you would like a paper copy of the EA and/or supporting documents please contact Matt Brown.
Matt Brown
South Zone Botanist
Forest Service
Eldorado National Forest
p: 530-642-5110
100 Forni Road
Placerville, CA 95667
Deer Valley 4wd Meadow and Blue Lakes Meadow Lake Road Maintenance Project Public Comment Notice
SNC Funding Prop 1 Watershed Restoration Grant Program now accepting applications
The CA Department of Fish and Wildlife is now accepting applications for their Prop 1 Watershed Restoration grant program. This program has allocated $24 million for water quality, river, and watershed protection and restoration projects of statewide importance outside of the Delta region. (There is a separate funding stream for projects within the Delta region.)
Proposal categories include planning, implementation, and acquisition. Note that planning grants can include funding to complete CEQA/NEPA for future implementation projects. Project priorities include:
- Projects that manage headwaters for multiple benefits by 1) restoring forest health through ecologically sound forest management, 2) protecting and restoring degraded stream and meadow ecosystems to assist in natural water management and improved habitat, and 3) protecting lands within watersheds to ensure that conversion of these lands does not have a negative impact on water resources.
- Projects that address fish migration.
- Projects that restore mountain meadow habitat in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain ranges that provide potential benefits such as increased groundwater storage, reduced and delayed peak flows on streams that flow through meadow systems, improved water quality, protection of climate refugia, and restored and expanded habitat for native species.
- Projects to protect, restore, or enhance water dependent habitats (e.g., streams, rivers, lakes and wetlands) for fish and wildlife.
Federal agencies are not eligible to apply, but there is no restriction on the work being done on federal land except that the applicant must have adequate land tenure and site control of the properties to be improved and restored for a minimum of 25 years.
The deadline for applications is September 16, 2015. More information is available at the CDFW website: https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Watersheds/Restoration-Grants.
Beaver as a Restoration Tool
Follow the link below to view a PDF of the Beaver as Restoration Tool webinar of July 29, 2015, which was hosted by the Association of State Wetland Managers.
ACCG Presentation to UMWRA
View the ACCG’s presentation at the July 24th 2015 meeting of the Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority (UMRWA), which was previewed at the July 15, 2015 ACCG Meeting, with the link below.
Sawmill Demonstration
At the last ACCG meeting, interest was expressed in seeing a live timber harvest. This opportunity may be of interest
Amador - Calaveras Consensus Group 