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Los Gatos Creek Watershed Collaborative Forest Health Grant

Update

Status Update

The big news this week, besides the sun coming out, is that crews have begun work on the San Jose Water Company lands adjacent to the Chemeketa neighborhood. The crews are using hand tools, not mechanized equipment, on this first part of the job. We would like to thank the Chemeketa neighbors for their cooperation and assistance with access on this part of the project. This week crews have completed about 4 acres.

Also, this past week, crews restarted work in MROSD. We are hoping that weather continues to cooperate as we work through the Bear Creek Redwoods Preserve. MROSD crews are working hard to clear downed trees and slides that have affected access to the treatment areas. Storm damage was extensive and will take time to clear. 

Crew clearing underbrush and small trees from ridge above Los Gatos Creek

(Photo: Stephen Harrington)

The Santa Clara County FireSafe Council (SCCFSC), CAL FIRE, San Jose Water Company (SJW), Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District (MROSD) and Santa Clara County Parks (SCCP) have formed a collaborative partnership known as the Los Gatos Watershed Collaborative to implement forest health treatments on approximately 938 acres strategically located throughout the Los Gatos Creek Watershed in the Santa Cruz Mountains. These treatments will thin underbrush and remove dead and dying trees to improve forest health and fire resilience.

The Los Gatos Creek Watershed Collaborative Forest Health Grant is part of California Climate Investments, a statewide program that puts billions of Cap-and-Trade dollars to work reducing greenhouse gas emissions, strengthening the economy, and improving public health and the environment — particularly in disadvantaged communities.

Santa Clara County FireSafe Council 

Info@SCCFireSafe.org

408-975-9591 

www.sccfiresafe.org