Tuolumne county, collaborating with yosemite stanislaus solutions (YSS), on advancing social and ecological resilience across the landscape (seral) project within the larger stanislaus landscape…

This federal Project Grant award, with a total funding amount of $498,331.00, was provided by the Bureau of Reclamation under the Applied Science Grants program (CFDA 15.557). The purpose of the grant is to advance the understanding of the ecohydrological impacts of watershed restoration treatments in the upper Stanislaus and Tuolumne River basins in California.

The key activities to be performed under this grant include leveraging existing data and science to quantify the combined impacts of climate, watershed management, and wildfire on watershed health and water security. The expected deliverables include providing a scientific basis for advancing nature-based solutions for wildfire risk reduction, refining nature-based solutions prescriptions, and building partnerships through the quantification of multiple secondary benefits such as erosion control, water security, forest health, and carbon sequestration. The grant award was made to Tuolumne County, which is collaborating with Yosemite Stanislaus Solutions on this project located on U.S. Forest Service land managed by the Stanislaus National Forest.

Activities

The project will advance our understanding of ecohydrological impacts of watershed restoration treatments in the upper stanislaus and tuolumne river basins by leveraging existing best available science and data, including quantifiable metrics of current and expected conditions, to separate the combined impacts of climate, watershed management, and wildfire on watershed health and water security. Expected deliverables or outcomes: the project outcomes will provide a scientific basis for advancing nbcs for wildfire risk reduction, data for refining nbcs prescriptions in the case of a negative outcome, and build partnerships through the quantification of multiple secondary benefits (e.g., erosion control, water security, forest health, carbon sequestration).

Intended beneficiaries

Wildfire risk reduction erosion control, water security, forest health, carbon sequestration.subrecipient activities (if known or specified at time of award): n a