The United States Forest Service (USFS), Pacific Southwest Region has awarded the French Meadows Partnership (Partnership) with its 2020 Regional Forester’s Honor Award for Ecological Restoration - All Lands Watershed and Forest Health. The award recognizes the Partnership’s successful French Meadows Forest Restoration Project. Read more...

After six months of strategic forest treatments, partners of the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project (Project) are wrapping up their second season of implementation work. Located in the headwaters of the Middle Fork American River, in the Tahoe National Forest, the Project aims to restore forest health by reducing high-severity fires across 28,000 acres of critical watershed, and to study the effects of forest treatments on ecosystem health. Read more...

PCWA and the French Meadows Partnership will be featured on Rob Stewart of KVIE’s “Rob on the Road” on November 9 at 7:30 p.m. on Channel 6, a PBS station. The 30-minute segment features the French Meadows Forest Restoration Project. PCWA General Manager Andy Fecko and Jay Ziegler, Director of External Affairs and Policy at The Nature Conservancy, spoke with Rob over Zoom in a virtual format. Read more...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has recognized PCWA with a 2020 WaterSense Excellence in Education and Outreach Award for promoting WaterSense and water efficiency in 2019. PCWA was one of 28 utilities, manufacturers, builders, and other organizations who received national recognition as part of WaterSense’s Partner of the Year Awards. Read more...