Join SYRCL at the First North Yuba Forest Partnership Community Engagement Night
Gathering the Community to Discuss Forest Restoration on the North Yuba
On July 1st, SYRCL will host the first North Yuba Forest Partnership (NYFP) Community Engagement Night alongside other Partnership members at the Madelyn Helling Library in Nevada City.
All community members interested in forest restoration efforts happening in the North Yuba River watershed are welcome to join for a townhall-style presentation and community discussion from 5:30 – 7:30 pm in the Gene Albaugh Community Room.
The NYFP is a formal collaborative of nine local and regional partners who are working together to plan, fund, and implement a landscape-scale forest restoration project (called the North Yuba Landscape Resilience Project, or “Project”) covering 275,000 acres of the North Yuba River watershed. Forest treatments for the project are taking place across the Yuba District of the Tahoe National Forest. Project goals are to treat the overstocked, dense forestlands of the North Yuba to improve forest health and climate resilience, reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire, protect local communities from high-severity wildfire, and protect and secure water supplies by restoring function to the watershed.
The NYFP has made significant strides in 2025, and several priority project areas are scheduled for treatment later this year and throughout 2026. Several NYFP partners—including the National Forest Foundation, the Tahoe National Forest, and Sierra County—are busy preparing treatment areas near Downieville, Camptonville, New Bullards Bar, and along Pliocene Ridge Road.
SYRCL is a lead coordinating partner for the NYFP and has been supportive of project efforts since the Partnership was officialized in 2018. In addition to Partnership facilitation and communications, SYRCL contributes to project monitoring efforts such as assessing watershed condition response to forest treatments.
SYRCL is also leading efforts to restore almost 300 acres of quaking aspen habitat in the headwaters of the North Yuba. This project, called the Salmon & Packer Creek Aspen Restoration Project, is an exciting opportunity for SYRCL to manage and implement forest restoration work on the North Yuba landscape. Aspen stands are a unique ecosystem specifically identified by the NYFP as crucial habitat for restoring forest resilience within the watershed.
SYRCL has partnered with the Forest Service for many years on a variety of planning and restoration work throughout the Yuba watershed including meadow restoration and monitoring, invasive plant management, and watershed resilience project planning. Through the years, SYRCL and Tahoe National Forest Staff have developed a strong partnership, with shared values and mutual dedication to watershed restoration.
SYRCL is grateful to work so closely with the dedicated staff of the Tahoe National Forest, who continue to steward the public lands of the Yuba, American, and Truckee Watersheds through the ebbs and flows of federal land management. There is much left to do to restore the health and resilience to our local forests, and there are many opportunities for continued collaboration and shared learning.
The North Yuba Forest Partnership continues to be an excellent example of how local and regional partners can leverage each other’s strengths to reach shared goals and restore the health of our watershed.
To find out more about the North Yuba Forest Partnership, please visit www.yubaforest.org.
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