A final environmental impact statement and three draft decisions were released last Friday by the U.S. Forest Service for the Forest's largest green forest project in its 124-year history!
This project will be reducing fire threats North of Highway 108 on Forest Service lands from Columbia to upstream of Beardsley Reservoir. The Social and Ecological Resilience Across the Landscape (SERAL) was born through the ongoing partnership between the Forest Service, the Collaborative Yosemite Stanislaus Solutions group (made up of a wide range of stakeholders including Sierra Pacific Industries, the Tuolumne River Trust, and the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center in Twain Harte), and Tuolumne County. The YSS group has played a critical role in developing and funding this project.
This project will implement forest health treatments on a little over 70,000 acres to protect and increase fire resiliency for roughly 118,000 acres of public and private lands.
To learn more about this project, click HERE.
