Following approval by the Board of Supervisors on April 8, 2025, San Mateo County Parks, in partnership with the San Mateo Resource Conservation District, have developed implementation plans for a 541-acre forest management project in Pescadero Creek County Park. This project was identified as a priority forest restoration effort in the Climate and Habitat Resiliency Plan. The overarching project goals are to improve the forest’s health and habitat and enhance resiliency to wildfire.
The work entails thinning overly dense trees and shrubs growing beneath the forest canopy and selective thinning of trees between 19-to-30 inches in diameter in an overlapping 100-acre area comprised of dense, second growth redwood and Douglas fir trees. Reducing overgrown ground vegetation and small trees in areas like this will restore forest composition following historic logging practices and allows retained trees to grow larger and healthier.
The project is scheduled to begin in early September 2025 and will continue through Fall of 2028.