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Building capacity to integrate best practices to reduce habitat fragmentation and maintain wildlife habitat and connectivity in local land-use plans in New York
Location: Lewis County, NY Updated: February 02, 2010
Organization: Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Primary contact: Heidi Kretser
This project works to leverage existing research and partnerships in New York state to positively impact Species of Greatest Conservation Need through improved local landuse planning. WCS will build networks, enhance outreach, and work with pilot communities to integrate policies that maintain intact habitats and benefit wildlife.
Bear Valley Meadow Restoration Project
Location: Nevada County, CA Updated: February 12, 2010
Organization: The Sierra Fund Primary contact: Elizabeth "Izzy" Martin
The Bear Valley Meadow Restoration Project will restore approximately 640 acres of critical meadow habitat along the upper Bear River, a tributary to the Feather River. The meadows of Bear Valley were once grazed for cattle and utilized as an important source of fodder for emigrant parties after crossing the Sierra Nevada. Additionally, the 1844 Emigrant Trail ran through Bear Valley and a narrow gauge rail line traversed the valley in the 1880s and 1890s. While grazing was discontinued in Bear Valley about a decade ago, the significant legacy of 150 years of grazing and human impact remains imprinted on the landscape. Several factors contribute to the existing state including past grazing and logging, but the primary ongoing cause of its present state is that the Bear River has incised 6 to 15 feet into the meadow. This downcutting has changed the stream from a meadow type to a canyon bottom type. Restoration actions will elevate the stream channel out of its current gullied depth back to meadow elevation reconnect the meadow to its floodplain. This will allow for groundwater recharge, which usually results in reduced stream water temperatures in summer. Restoration will also reduce erosion and sediment delivery, improve aquatic and terrestrial habitat for native species, increase waterfowl use, enhance habitat for Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog, reverse the vegetative trend from xeric species to a vigorous community of wet meadow species, and increase local trout population levels.