The Five Committees

Their Commitments, Missions, and Accomplishments

Outreach

Encourage, train for, and implement Fire Safe and Forest Health Projects – Address Climate Change, Carbon Sequestering, and Energy Use in our region. – Encourage and implement prescribed fire and traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) practices.

Education

Inspire local schools and tribes to establish programs to train people to work on land restoration projects. – Educate the public on Fire Safe Practices and Watershed Restoration.

Workforce

Help establish and maintain a local work force for land care projects – Advocate for hiring of the local work force on all projects. – Act as an intermediary between grant agencies, contractors, and workers.

Our Workforce committee organized a forest health hand crew that assisted with implementation of a CALFIRE Climate Change Initiative grant administered by the MCRCD on the Usal Forest owned by RFFI.

Our Workforce committee helped to establish a local forest health crew and helped Elkridge Landscaping comply with all requirements to bid on CALFIRE contract work. Our crew then went to work with Elkridge Landscaping on the shaded fuel break along HWY 1, in partnership with Redwood Forest Foundation Inc (RFFI) on the Usal forest health project. Elkridge now has two fully trained 5 person crews and 2 alternates and they are now conducting Roadside Fuel Reduction and defensive space work in the Westport area through landowner and grant funding, they have also been doing roadside fuel reduction on Dos Rios rd. outside of Laytonville in partnership with the MCFSC and they will begin working as Eel River Recovery Project (ERRP) subcontractors on the 10 mile creek forest health project later this year. They are also expecting to add a coastal based crew to their workforce, hiring from the north coast in the future.

Grants

Find, apply for, and administer grants and become a fiscal sponsor for local projects

Our Grants Committee applied for and won a Rose Grant in August 2022.
Applied for and won a Technical Assistance Grant from the NCRP in February 2023.
Applied for and won a Community Foundation Field of Interest Grant in November 2023.

Events

Planning and hosting educational events & workshops as well as fundraising events.