Outside SPD Grocery store in downtown Nevada City, two days following large scale evacuations. The River Fire had the highest combustion rate in lived memory as measured by the regional fire chief.
Trees marked for selective thinning in the Tahoe National Forest.
Equipment of a tree marking crew member for the National Forest Service.
Smoke settles around Nevada City for most of the summer with AQI levels reaching as high as 600 on some days.
A forest service crew member passes through manzanita while marking a treatment site.
Forest Service biologists conduct a survey for Sierra Yellow Legged Frogs as part of the NEPA process for a proposed treatment site.
A Forest Service biologist conducts a survey for Sierra Yellow Legged Frogs as part of the NEPA process for a proposed treatment site.
Forest Service biologists conduct a survey for Gosshawks as part of the NEPA process for a proposed treatment site. The call box projects different bird calls.
Fire fighters conduct a mop up operation the day of the Bennett Fire in downtown Grass Valley.
Fire fighters conduct a mop up operation the day of the Bridge Fire in downtown Grass Valley.
Inmate members of the Growlersburg Conservation Crew contain a spot fire at the Bridge Fire near Auburn, CA.
Inmate members of the Growlersburg Conservation Crew conduct a back burn to contain the Bridge Fire near Auburn, CA.
The first community meeting as part of the NEPA for the 270,000 acre North Yuba Forest Partnership project.
A truck of biomass departs a meadow restoration worksite in the Tahoe National Forest, destined for a biomass facility.
A feller bunches clears smaller trees as part of the mechanical thinning process in the Tahoe National Forest.
Biomass is produced and loaded at a meadow restoration project in the Tahoe National Forest.
A loading yard operates at night in the Tahoe National Forest.
A meadow restoration project in the Tahoe National Forest. Seen here are lodgepole pine that had encroached on the meadow. Not a commercially viable species of wood, this lodgepole is ground into biomass to be taken to biomass energy facilities, a heavily subsidized, but potentially viable future destination for all of the forest mass that needs to removed from forests.
A hand feller sizes down a larger tree that was removed as part of a meadow restoration project in the Tahoe National Forest.
Scientists from UC Merced and Berkeley drag a fallen snag to open a road in the Dixie burn area as they salvage hydrological monitoring equipment that was destroyed in the fire.
Scientists from UC Merced and Berkeley salvage hydrological monitoring equipment that was destroyed in the Dixie fire.
A stand replacing fire in the Dixie Fire.
Members of the Tahoe National Forest Hotshots conduct a pile burn to remove excess fuels and reduce future fire risk in the Tahoe National Forest.
Members of the Tahoe National Forest Hotshots conduct a pile burn to remove excess fuels and reduce future fire risk in the Tahoe National Forest.
Members of the Tahoe National Forest Hotshots conduct a pile burn to remove excess fuels and reduce future fire risk in the Tahoe National Forest.
Endless piles of salvage timber wait at a loading yard in Oroville before they are eventually taken 8 hours north to the nearest mill.
Endless piles of salvage timber wait at a loading yard in Oroville before they are eventually taken 8 hours north to the nearest mill.
Employees yard timber, marking deficits and recording sizes before timber is stacked into piles at a a loading yard in Oroville.
An employee at an independent mill in Weaverville oversees one of many automated processes that process the timber into lumber.
An employee at an independent mill in Weaverville oversees one of many automated processes that process the timber into lumber.