Sierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program 4th Annual WIP Summit Recording and Materials Available Here http://restorethesierra.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/WIP-Summit-Recap-Promo.mp4 Key Focus Areas Latest NewsSierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program History and Accomplishments Web Story The Sierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program History and Accomplishments web story provides viewers with an overview of our progress made to date and efforts underway to help make our forests and watersheds more resilient to future stressors. Visit the following segments to learn more: Testing […]... Read more...Wildfires and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Wildfires in southern California are blanketing the southern part of the state in smoke and bringing more attention to the consequences that large, damaging wildfires have on California’s efforts to curb greenhouse gas emissions. This story from the San Francisco Chronicle and this story from CALmatters explain more.... Read more...NEWS RELEASE CONTACT: Stephanie Gomes, Tree Mortality Team Lead, U.S. Forest Service 707-653-3579 Scott McLean Information Officer (916) 651-FIRE (3473) @CALFIRE_PIO RELEASE DATE: December 12, 2017 Record 129 Million Dead Trees in California USDA Forest Service and CAL FIRE Working Together to Address Forest Health VALLEJO, Calif., December 11, 2017 – The USDA Forest […]... Read more...Sierra Nevada Watershed Information Network Use the Sierra Nevada Watershed Information Network (WIN) to engage with stories, maps, and data focused on the Sierra Nevada Region. The Sierra Nevada Watershed Information Network provides an online environment that connects resources, partners, successes, failures, lessons learned, needs, opportunities, and existing Watershed Improvement Program (WIP) related efforts. The WIN also provides opportunities to explore new […]... Read more... NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: August 23, 2017 Media Contacts: Brittany Covich, Sierra Nevada Conservancy: (530) 823-4686 or brittany.covich@sierranevada.ca.gov Chris Mertens, California Tahoe Conservancy: (530) 543-6057 or chris.mertens@tahoe.ca.gov Paul Wade, U.S. Forest Service: (707) 562-9010 or pwade@fs.fed.us New partnership established to protect Tahoe and the Central Sierra (SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.) – Yesterday […]... Read more...New research to help guide policy decisions By Aaron Hilf May 25, 2017 New research from a multi-university team of biologists shows what could be a startling drop in the amount of carbon stored in the Sierra Nevada mountains due to projected climate change and wildfire events. The study, “Potential decline in carbon carrying […]... Read more...The State of the Sierra Nevada’s Forests Report: From Bad to Worse In 2014 the Sierra Nevada Conservancy produced the first State of the Sierra Nevada’s Forests Report. However, when the 2014 report was released, tree mortality wasn’t even mentioned. This update to the State of the Sierra Nevada’s Forests report explores the changes the […]... Read more...Sierra Nevada Watershed Improvement Program Annual Summit Interest on a Past-Due Bill: Funding Watershed Restoration and Forest Health Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Time: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Location: CalEPA Headquarters Building, Byron Sher Auditorium, 1001 I Street, 2nd Floor, Sacramento, CA 95814 RSVP here Members of the Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) Board and staff, […]... Read more...By Bettina Boxall January 28, 2017 Reporting from Sequoia National Park, CA The ponderosa pine had taken root decades before the Revolutionary War, making a stately stand on this western Sierra Nevada slope for some 300 years, Nate Stephenson figures. Then came the beetle blitzkrieg. Now the tree is a dab in the gray and […]... Read more...CALIFORNIA’S DRAFT FOREST CARBON PLAN – AN OPPORTUNITY FOR ACTION The 2008 Climate Change Scoping Plan, which is the framework for implementing Assembly Bill 32, recognized the important role forests play in meeting the state’s greenhouse reduction goals, stating that actions should be taken to “preserve forest sequestration and encourage the use of forest biomass […]... Read more...
