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Los Gatos Creek

Watershed Collaborative

Forest Health Grant Update

Status Update

Crews have progressed steadily with vegetation treatments on SJW property. Operations have moved up the watershed in the vicinity of Sears Road and Wright's Station Road and, this past week, near Morrill Road. The treatments near Morrill Road mark the southern extent of the work and the top of the watershed. Crews treated approximately 50 acres in May. 

Excavator working with a masticator head treating vegetation along Wright's Station Road. Photo: Dave Manson

Redwood forest near Sears Road, underbrush has been cleared. A native hazelnut tree is retained in the understory. Redwoods still show the burn scars from the 1985 Lexington Fire. Photo: Stephen Harrington

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