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Los Gatos Creek

Watershed Collaboration

Forest Health Grant Update

December 2025

Status Update

In November, crews continued steady progress across priority treatment areas. A total of 16.20 acres were treated on San Jose Water Company lands and 2.55 acres on Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District project sites. Work advanced on both the West Branch and South Branch portions of Forest Health Grant 2.


Below are a few pictures taken by Dave Manson of the work completed in Saratoga and some of the machines that were used.

Field Highlights


Photos captured this month by Miranda Mathiesen and our Project Manager Rosie Eisner document fungi, salamanders, banana slugs and newts in the Los Gatos Creek Watershed! 

To implement forest health treatments on approximately 1778 acres of strategically identified areas, The Santa Clara County Firesafe Council has partnered with the San Jose Water Company, Santa Clara County Parks, Midpeninsula Regional Open Space District and smaller, private landowners, to form the Los Gatos Creek Watershed Collaboration.


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.

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