PCWA and the French Meadows Partnership were featured on KVIE’s “Rob on the Road”
On November 9, PCWA and the French Meadows Partnership were featured on KVIE’s “Rob on the Road”. The 30-minute segment highlights efforts to protect California’s watersheds and, more specifically, the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project. PCWA General Manager Andy Fecko spoke with Rob on a live video chat.
After the 2014 King Fire in California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, it became clear that megafires are becoming more common and destructive. The fires not only impact homes, businesses and people, they also severely damage water quality, hydroelectric systems, forests, watersheds, soil, trees, wildlife, and mountain recreation.
To help reduce the risk of wildfires, PCWA, The Nature Conservancy, National Forest Service, Placer County, and other non-profit organizations and research universities created a coalition to secure funding and technical expertise for a first-of-its-kind, ecologically-based forest project: the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project. After years of planning, initial forest management work started in 2019 and is fully underway in 2020.
Two-thirds of California’s water supply comes from at-risk watersheds similar to the American River watershed where the project is located. The French Meadows Project is the best example in the country of active forest management using prescribed fire, tree thinning, planting and other ecologically-based techniques to ensure forests and everything within them are protected.
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