- Posted By: Kim Ingram
- Written by: Bear Yuba Land Trust
This past year Bear Yuba Land Trust (formerly Nevada County Land Trust) has been working with the Stewardship Council to facilitate the permanent protection of more than 10,000 acres of land in the Bear River and Yuba River watersheds of Nevada and Yuba Counties. Another 7,000 acres is located in adjacent areas of Placer County.
The land is surrounded by a checkerboard mixture of private lands and Tahoe National Forest with open space represented in the forests and barren rock covered mountain slopes typical of the Sierra Nevada. The land is diverse range of high elevation wildlife and plant habitats including special status species American marten, Pacific fisher, mountain yellow-legged frog, and California wolverine. In addition, willow flycatchers are known to breed in the region and California spotted owl.
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