Feather River Water & Watershed Portal

Almanor Basin Watershed Advisory Committee

The Almanor Basin Watershed Advisory Committee was created by the Plumas County Board of Supervisors to address water quality, land use, and critical habitat issues in the Lake Almanor Basin.

Feather River Land Trust

The mission of the Feather River Land Trust is to conserve, restore and manage land in the Feather River region in cooperation with willing landowners for the benefit of current and future generations.

Feather River Resource Conservation District

The mission of the Feather River Resource Conservation District is to advocate resource conservation through education and collaborative efforts with willing landowners and organizations that promote economic and ecological sustainability.

Mountain Meadows Conservancy

The mission of the Mountain Meadows Conservancy is to conserve and enhance the natural beauty and environmental health of the Mountain Meadows watershed; protect its significant Mountain Maidu burial and cultural sites; and provide recreation and public access for generations to come.

Plumas County Fire Safe Council

The mission of the Plumas County Fire Safe Council is to reduce the loss of natural and manmade resources caused by wildfire through pre-fire activities.

Project 2105 Committee

The 2105 Committee was created by the Plumas County Board of Supervisors with citizens from the Lake Almanor area who are working to ensure that the new Federal Energy Regulatory Commission license for PG&E's Upper North Fork Feather River hydroelectric project contains provisions that recognizes the importance of the project, and in particular the lake, to the Lake Almanor area. 

Sierra Institute for Community and Environment

The Sierra Institute for Community and Environment works with rural communities to advance rural community wellbeing and sustainable ecosystems.

Sierra Valley Resource Conservation District

The Sierra Valley Resource Conservation District serves residents and the natural resources within the district encompassing Plumas, Sierra and Lassen Counties, to conserve and protect natural resources.

U.C. Davis – California Hydrologic Research Laboratory

The Hydrologic Research Laboratory, within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of California-Davis, focuses on modeling hydrologic and environmental processes at hillslope scale, watershed scale, regional scale, and global scale.

Upper  Feather  River  Watershed  Group

The Upper Feather River Watershed Group is a nonprofit group of agriculture interests and operators in the upper Feather River watershed region including Sierra Valley, American Valley, Indian Valley, Mohawk Valley, and other areas of Plumas and Sierra Counties.  The Upper Feather River Watershed Group offers individual irrigators and operators the opportunity to work together as a coalition to address water quality issues pertaining to agricultural discharges.  The group works closely with the Plumas-Sierra County University of California Cooperative Extension to monitor area creeks and streams to determine the effects, if any, of local agriculture and rural communities on waters flowing into the Feather River tributaries.