About the Project

In August 2020 the Feather River basin and a large swath of the Plumas National Forest burned in the Bear Fire, part of the devastating North Complex Fire. Prior to the fire, the area was surrounded by high fire risk industrially owned and managed timberlands, where forest densities made high severity fire likely.  In 2023 the landowners partnered with Mast Reforestation to restore and rehabilitate this stunning site. Mast created a custom reforestation plan,  prepared the ground to reduce competing vegetation, felled snags, chipped dense biomass, and reduced overall fuel loading to reduce future fire risk. We sourced seed from seed zones that would match this location well, increasing the climate resilience of this forest, grew seedlings at our nurseries, and replanted this site with a diverse native species mix. The forest will be stewarded in the future to manage healthy densities via thinnings, and the land will be protected by a perpetual conservation easement preventing conversion to commercial use and requiring reforestation in the event of future disturbances.