Agreement Reached To Protect Sierra Nevada Land From Home Building
April 6, 2012 Kyriaki (Sandy) Venetis 
The Sierra Nevada mountain range. Photo courtesy of the Sierra Nevada Alliance.
An agreement has been reached that will protect the forests in the northern Sierra Nevada from being parceled off and developed for commercial purposes.
Sierra Nevada northern forest. Photo by Sierra Forest Legacy.In an effort that has been about four years in the making, an agreement has been reached between the Truckee Donner Land Trust, The Trust For Public Land, and the forest products company Sierra Pacific Industries will allow the company to continue logging the land near Jackson Meadows Reservoir north of Truckee, but the conservation agreement will prohibit property from being subdivided for development into homes.
The conservation agreement will mean permanent protection for the land, which includes streams, meadows, and a variety of plants and wildlife.
“These lands straddle the headwaters of four major rivers systems, which are the very heart of California’s water supply,” said David Sutton, The Trust for Public Land’s director for Northern California and Nevada.
“To get clean plentiful water out of the tap, the whole system has to be working right, but without healthy forests at the top, the water is threatened before it even begins to run downhill,” added Sutton.
The area will also still be available for recreation, including hiking, snowmobiling, and other uses.