YUBA COUNTY – The Yuba River Watershed is one of the only watersheds in California to be untouched by wildfires and they want to keep it that way. Construction can now move forward for a biomass plant that will help reduce the risk of wildfires after a funding vote was approved Tuesday by the Yuba Water Agency. A project that has been trying to get going for a decade now has the green light. Its main purpose is to clean up the forest by taking woody debris and other fire fuel material and converting it into electrical energy for the grid. “We are behind by decades in investing in projects like this,” said Yuba Water Agency Watershed Manager Joanna Lessard. As California’s wildfires continue to burn hotter and more frequently, environmental leaders are scrambling to get ahead of them, including the nonprofit Camptonville Community Partnership.