The JMT Wilderness Conservancy was successful in a highly-competitive process to WIN a $1.8 million grant the State of California, Wildlife Conservation Board! YOU, our donors, made this possible by matching those state funds! Thank you!
This 4-year grant will jump-start wide-scale restoration of the diverse wilderness along a 24-mile stretch of the John Muir Trail between Selden Pass in Sierra National Forest and Muir Pass in Kings Canyon National Park. It will fund meadow restoration from heavy human impacts, trail re-routes around fragile fens (fragile peat bogs that circulate underground water), repairs of stream banks and aquatic habitat that add new durable stream crossings, and repairs and consolidation of braided and social trails that disrupt watershed. Additionally, this project will support two state and federally-listed endangered species: the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and the mountain yellow-legged frog.
This program will work in the heart of the San Joaquin River watershed, the source of fresh water for the agricultural lands and communities in the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin. This is the richest agricultural valley in the nation. As our efforts expand to a full 10-years, this will improve the region’s ecological health and strengthen its resilience to the extremes of climate change and increasing recreational impacts.
The JMT Wilderness Conservancy was successful in a highly-competitive process to WIN a $1.8 million grant the State of California, Wildlife Conservation Board! YOU, our donors, made this possible by matching those state funds! Thank you!
This 4-year grant will jump-start wide-scale restoration of the diverse wilderness along a 24-mile stretch of the John Muir Trail between Selden Pass in Sierra National Forest and Muir Pass in Kings Canyon National Park. It will fund meadow restoration from heavy human impacts, trail re-routes around fragile fens (fragile peat bogs that circulate underground water), repairs of stream banks and aquatic habitat that add new durable stream crossings, and repairs and consolidation of braided and social trails that disrupt watershed. Additionally, this project will support two state and federally-listed endangered species: the Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep and the mountain yellow-legged frog.
This program will work in the heart of the San Joaquin River watershed, the source of fresh water for the agricultural lands and communities in the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare Basin. This is the richest agricultural valley in the nation. As our efforts expand to a full 10-years, this will improve the region’s ecological health and strengthen its resilience to the extremes of climate change and increasing recreational impacts.