Funding Secured – Galiano Fen & Haypress West Meadow Restoration Planning Project

SYRCL has secured funding from the Wildlife Conservation Board Block Grant being administered by Point Blue and the Sierra Meadows Partnership (SMP) to plan restoration work in two distinct wetland sites within the North Yuba River watershed.  

This Project will complete planning on 100-acres of high priority meadow, fen, and associated aspen & forest habitat in the North Yuba Landscape Resilience Project (NYLRP).  

The NYLRP is a USFS Priority Landscape managed by the Tahoe National Forest (TNF) and the North Yuba Forest Partnership (NYFP), of which SYRCL is a founding member. TNF has identified watershed resilience as a primary objective and is currently planning projects at a landscape level scale, but with a sole emphasis on upland habitats. The NYFP recognizes that restoration of aquatic habitats such as meadow, fen, and aspen are a key part of achieving forest health and watershed resilience.

To increase pace and scale of sensitive ecosystem work on the NYLRP footprint, SYRCL has identified 100-acres of high priority meadow and fen habitat, with surrounding forests and aspen stands, for restoration planning: Galiano Fen and an unnamed meadow—dubbed Haypress West. 

Last fall, SYRCL staff and Tahoe National Forest partners visited Galiano Fen for a project kick-off meeting. Check out these pictures from our cold rainy visit. Can you identify the degradation and hypothesize the cause?  Click on the button below the photos to find out more information about meadow degradation.

This project is in the very early stages. We will be sure to update you as project designs become finalized and eventually when we secure implementation funding and start restoration work.