The USGS groundwater monitoring project is underway in our area.  A presentation by USGS explaining the project, which was shared during the July 2016 ACCG full meeting, is available here.

See the entire newsletter, here.

The Sierra Nevada Conservancy (SNC) Governing Board will hold its quarterly meeting in Markleeville in Alpine County on September 7-8. The public is invited to attend all SNC events; however, lunch and transportation are not provided.

The State Responsibility Area Fire Prevention Fund (SRAFPF) and Tree Mortality (TM) Grant Program has $15.75 million available for projects that focus on supporting local efforts to remove dead and dying trees that pose a threat to public health and safety and for projects that reduce the wildfire threat to habitable structures within State Responsibility Areas (SRA).

See details about Prescribed fire on private land training,, Managing habitat for red legged frog, the new California Rangeland Research and Information Center website, and about other resources.

Release Date: Aug 18, 2016   Placerville, CA Contact(s): Jennifer Chapman, 530-957-9660   Woodcutting permits on the Eldorado National Forest have been changed to allow larger standing dead conifer trees to be cut for firewood. "This change in our woodcutting...

Faced with thousands of acres of dead trees that have contributed to devastating wildfires in the Sierras, the Bureau of Land Management has formed a team to determine how to manage the dead trees to minimize wildfire risk and protect the public. The Mother Lode Field Office is facing one of the largest tree mortality events in recent history. Approximately one third of its land, nearly 60,000 acres, has been affected with conifer mortality.

Cutting down dead trees may not reduce wildfire risk. It may seem logical that all these dead trees would fuel massive conflagrations. Scientists, however, say climate, not dead trees, drives fire risk. That leaves California poised to log millions of standing dead trees without addressing a central -question: Are they actually a fire hazard?