Restoration work completed and on-going on Usal Redwood Forest:

  • Salmonid habitat enhancement – 14 stream miles
  • Road decommissioning – 46 road miles
  • Removing or fixing failed crossings to prevent 140,000 cubic yards of sedimentation into streams
  • Reforestation across 1500 acres
  • Meadow habitat restoration
  • Forest health hill slope treatments including fuel reduction and landscape scale
  • Shaded fuel break development in collaboration with neighboring landowner
  • Reintroduction of prescribed fire
  • Conversion of biomass to biochar
  • Soil plot monitoring for effect of biochar on forest soils
  • Watershed scale planning for restoration project implementation
  • Streamflow monitoring to quantify the effect of hillslope treatments on streamflow