Middle Yuba Watershed Forest Projects

The Middle Yuba River watershed (~134,500 acres) sits between two active forest-health planning efforts: the North Yuba Forest Partnership to the north and Nevada County’s community wildfire planning to the south. This map consolidates project data from multiple partners to show where existing and planned treatments have occurred — and where the planning gap remains.

Layers include the North Yuba Forest Partnership ROD 2 final treatment units and ROD 3 footprint; Tahoe National Forest Yuba River Ranger District fuels projects (Bear Trap, Highway 20, Washington, WNCCDP/Deer Creek, the Pike-Magnus Fuel Break, the planned Pliocene Ridge Roadside Fuel Break (2025 Categorical Exclusion; project footprint from the Forest Service decision map), and the South Yuba Roadside Fuel Break — both its corridor footprint and its delineated FACTS activity units); YWI landscape resilience projects (‘Inimim Forest, Round Mountain, Little Deer Creek, and South Yuba Rim); Nevada Irrigation District (NID) restoration projects, plus the draft proposed stand-treatment and meadow-restoration units for the NID / Tahoe NF Upper Middle Yuba (UMY) project, shown dashed and labelled draft because they are still subject to change; Yuba Water Agency fuels treatment; regional and county agency projects; Sierra Pacific Industries managed timberland (CAL FIRE timber harvest plan footprint, 2011–2025); and public and protected land ownership from CAL FIRE FRAP. All layers can be toggled on and off; click any feature for details.