Haskell Peak Meadows Restoration Project: Second and Largest Year of Implementation Completed this September
SYRCL, in partnership with the Tahoe National Forest, completed the second year of project implementation on 229 acres of meadow, fen,…
Meadow Restoration
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SYRCL Awarded $156,000 in Grant Funding from the Sierra Meadows Partnership Block Grant
SYRCL received $156,000 in grant funding from the Sierra Meadows Partnership Block Grant to advance meadow restoration in the North Yuba…
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Help Us Install Groundwater Wells
On Tuesday, September 17th and Thursday, September 19th, we are planning some field days to install groundwater wells in two meadows…
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Haskell Peak Meadows: Implementation Year Two and RFB Release
The SYRCL headwaters team is gearing up for another exciting year of implementation work on the Haskell Peak Meadows Restoration Project….
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SYRCL Launches Phase 2 of Van Norden Meadow Restoration Project with $2.5M Grant
The South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) is excited to begin Phase 2 of the Van Norden Meadow restoration work this summer. Phase 2 of the Van Norden Meadow Restoration Project will focus on reconnecting the Lytton Fan by completing in stream work in the upstream section of Lytton Creek and improvements to Lake Van Norden Dam Road, plus relocating & improving the Sheep Pens Trailhead. This work has been made possible through $2.5 million California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Nature Based Solutions: Wetlands and Mountain Meadows grant opportunity.
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Restoration Project Update: The Haskell Peak Meadows
The Haskell Peak Meadows Restoration Project aims to rehabilitate the meadow hydrology in five meadows, thereby restoring ecosystem function and increasing resilience in each of these meadows to expected changes in climatic conditions.
Meadows provide benefits that make them biodiversity and carbon sequestration hotspots, provide late season baseflows (the portion of the streamflow that is sustained between precipitation events), refugia habitat, and improve water quality and quantity for downstream users. Restoration of meadow hydrology, by re-connecting the stream channel to its natural floodplain, is the primary basis upon which other ecological values are sustained, including restoring historic riparian wet meadow, aquatic habitat, and wetland function, within the meadow system.
