Yuba Forest Network: The Numbers Behind a Full Year of Forest Work
The Yuba Forest Network's 2025 recap counts 1,600-plus log trucks off the Tahoe National Forest, a 30-year milestone for Sierra Streams Institute, and nearly 2,000 acres in restoration on San Juan Ridge.
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More than 1,600 log trucks hauled biomass off the Tahoe National Forest in 2025. That is fuel pulled out of the woods before it can feed a fire. It is one of the headline numbers in the Yuba Forest Network's year-in-review from the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL).
The recap marks another milestone. Sierra Streams Institute turned 30 this year, three decades of steady work on a Sierra watershed just north of the American River canyons.
The featured effort is the 'Inimim Forest Restoration Project. It covers nearly 2,000 acres of public and private land on San Juan Ridge, between the South and Middle Yuba Rivers. The Yuba Watershed Institute manages it in partnership with the Bureau of Land Management, and the project is entering a new phase that includes timber harvest.
Other treatments across the watershed add up. Crews worked aspen restoration on Salmon and Packer Creeks, a floodplain project at English Meadow, fuel reduction on the Hoyt-Purdon lands, and shaded fuel breaks with Sierra Pacific Industries. The network is a collaboration of agencies, nonprofits, and landowners. Forests do not follow property lines, and neither does fire.
If you want to take part, the next quarterly YFN meeting is Friday, February 6, 2026, from 10 a.m. to noon. It runs hybrid, in person near Nevada City and over Teams, and it is open to the public.
What works on the Yuba can inform how we care for the American River canyons. Read the full year-in-review from SYRCL for the detail behind the totals.