North Yuba Forest Partnership advances wildfire risk reduction near Camptonville and New Bullards Bar Reservoir

NEVADA CITY, Calif. — The North Yuba Forest Partnership, nine organizations committed to collaboratively planning, funding and implementing forest restoration across the North Yuba River watershed, announced that wildfire risk reduction treatments will begin near the community of Camptonville and New Bullards Bar Reservoir. Following the Tahoe National Forest’s signing of the Record of Decision for Subproject Area #2 of the North Yuba Landscape Resilience Project (NYLRP), implementation is now cleared to begin within this priority area.

The NYLRP spans 275,000 acres and represents one of the largest landscape-scale vegetation and fuels management efforts in the Sierra Nevada. The project is designed to:

Reduce the risk of catastrophic wildfire

Create fire-adapted communities

Improve fo