$3M Grant for California Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program

The California Fire Safe Council in partnership with the Watershed Research and Training Center has been awarded a $3 million grant, part of which is to help improve wildfire resiliency.

The Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program aims to help communities develop and implement projects to strengthen fire resiliency, increase carbon sequestration, and facilitate greenhouse gas emissions.

The California Fire Safe Council in partnership with the Watershed Research and Training Center, will deploy and facilitate community involvement and capacity building investments modeled after the Sierra Nevada Conservancy Watershed Improvement Program approach in priority watersheds in need of forest-health activities across the state with a special focus on those at-risk from catastrophic wildfire.

“With California facing unprecedented wildfire risk, we need every tool available to put the state on a path toward long-term wildfire prevention and forest health,” California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot said in a statement.

The California Fire Safe Council has been mobilizing Californians to protect their homes, communities and environments from wildfires for over 25 years.