National Forest, California Department of Water Resources, National Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management are building their capacity to plan and carry out meadow restoration on both Federal and private lands.
Officially launched in June 2017, the project began with an assessment of meadow conditions across the watershed. Levi Keszey from CalTrout’s Sierra Headwaters office trained working group members to use the American Rivers Rapid Meadow Assessment Scorecard in the field. The AR Scorecard method is both rigorous and accessible to non-specialists, making it an efficient way to evaluate conditions on the ground. The scorecard results in a score (out of 100) indicating the health of the meadow and collects important data that can be used to prioritize meadows and indicate which issues restoration needs to address. Meadow assessment also provides an organized database of meadows in the watershed that can be used in planning further restoration projects beyond this one.
Restoring "Cowboy Country"
Assessing conditions of important source water meadows like Modoc Meadows
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