Restoration of NID’s scenic English Meadow is just a few months away from finally starting. The district is now accepting contractor bids for the one-point-two-million dollar project. NID Environmental Resources Administrator, Neysa King, says the meadow, at the six-thousand foot elevation, is about a mile upstream from Jackson Meadows Reservoir. It’s one of the district’s largest water storage facilities. She says the project has critical goals of producing a more wildfire-resilient watershed, while also protecting water supply and quality. That will be done through restoring the connection between the Middle Yuba River and its floodplain on 380 acres…

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King says the project will expand fire fuels reduction and forest thinning efforts that have been initiated by NID throughout the county…

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King says it’s hoped the project will begin in June and be completed in about three-to-four months. Funding comes through a grant from the Wildlife Conservation Board.