In 2019, Sierra Institute continued its work coordinating, facilitation and generally advancing the South Lassen Watershed Group project that involves work with over 25 groups focused on restoring 850,000 acres that includes federal, private industrial and non-industrial land encompassing three of the last free-running salmonid streams in the State of California and the headwaters of the state water project that serves 25 million people and three-quarters of a million acres of agricultural land. Sierra Institute staff conducted a variety of analyses on project sites to enable restoration work to advance. Sierra Institute successfully ran four youth crews conducting restoration projects and one sawyer crew that used hand saws to reduce fire risks as it thinned wilderness lands in Lassen Volcanic National Park. Sierra Institute won the volunteer of the year award from the National Park Service for this work. Additionally, Sierra Institute advanced clean-up of a former mill site and plann