News release: Leveraging nature-based solutions for wildfire protection and carbon storage in Sierra-Cascade forests
… Reducing wildfire risk also supports biodiversity, regulates local climate, protects watersheds, and prevents soil erosion – all benefits to advancing California’s NBS climate targets. … When completed, the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project will restore forest health to the upper headwaters of the Middle Fork American River and help protect communities, resources, and vital water infrastructure including the French Meadows Reservoir, which supplies water to Placer County, Folsom Lake, and feeds into the federal Central Valley Project.