CA Wildfire & Forest Resilience Task Force

Together, we can reduce death and destruction from wildfires. … California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Director Joe Tyler and Calforests President/CEO Matt Diaz wrote this opinion piece in The San Diego Union-Tribune. Here’s a quote: “The bottom line is this: Community collaboration is the best defense against wildfires — everyone stepping up and making efforts to protect their properties for the good of their fellow citizen. We all play a part in protecting the places we call home.” … Read the article to learn what steps people can take to protect their homes and communities from wildfire. >> https://lnkd.in/gFdNUsUH … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #Wildfire

Check out this amazing resource for applying for our Community Wildfire Defense Grants.

A recently completed project funded by Prop 68 widened and reinforced a fuelbreak to aid in future wildfire suppression and firefighting efforts.

What makes the California Wildfire and Landscape Interagency Treatment Dashboard so important? … As California works toward ambitious wildfire and landscape resilience goals, transparency and effective planning tools are critical to success. This new Interagency Treatment Dashboard, for the first time ever in California, provides a single source for displaying recently completed forest and wildland projects from over a dozen different federal and state agencies. The updated Dashboard shows three years of data with treatments on 700,000 acres in 2023 and prescribed fire acres more than doubling between 2021 and 2023. … Learn more about the interactive Dashboard and explore it for yourself. >> https://lnkd.in/gb25_j-7 … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #WildlandFire #TreatmentDashboard

Save the date! The Wildlife Conservation Board is hosting workshops around the state to discuss their 2025-2030 Strategic Plan. 🦌🐟🌿 Join for an interactive, open house-style workshop to learn about WCB and help chart their future. Partners are welcome to stop by anytime for as little or as long as they like. We hope to see you there! RSVP: https://lnkd.in/gPVMv-Fy

Innovations in technology are not a silver bullet for solving our climate and wildfire challenges. However, they can go a long way in improving one critical facet of these challenges: capacity. Improving capacity for fuel treatment projects is a core objective for Silicon Valley tech companies like Kodama Systems and BurnBot, Inc., according to a recent article by The New York Times. Fuel treatments, such as thinning or prescribed burning, refer to methods used to manage and reduce the amount of flammable material or “fuels” in forests, grasslands, and other ecosystems. Reducing the amount of fuels can help limit the spread and severity of fires, making them less destructive and easier to manage. Kodama Systems is making mechanical thinning operations more efficient by automating machinery, implementing teleoperations, and bolstering remote-site connectivity. BurnBot, on the other hand, is enabling prescribed burns at scale through remote-operated prescribed burning machines. Kodama, BurnBot, and other tech companies are working to scale up fuel treatment efforts so that we can cover more ground more often, before fires even begin. As Kate Dargan Marquis, senior advisor for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation's Wildfire Resilience Initiative, explains, “There aren’t enough hands… Where technology can help assist human production capability, it’s really important.” Learn more: https://lnkd.in/edrMjAh4 #climateandwildfire #wildfireprevention #wildfireresilience #climateresilience #climatetech #climateaction #forestmanagement #forestrestoration #fueltreatment #thinning #prescribedburns #techinnovation #siliconvalley

“This is a really big step forward.” - Wade Crowfoot, California Natural Resources Agency Secretary … Referring to California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)’s launch of its Fuels Treatment Effectiveness Dashboard, Secretary Crowfoot went on to say, “We were never really able to get our arms around just the breadth of all of this work, much less determine how effective it’s been.” This was quoted in a POLITICO article discussing the recent Sierra Nevada Regional Meeting of the Task Force. … Read the article to learn more about these big steps in forest resilience. >> https://politi.co/4eWQKXH … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #Wildfire #ResilientForests

Watch sessions from our Sierra Nevada Regional Meeting that showcases California’s momentum toward wildfire resilience! … Thank you to all who participated in the Task Force’s most well-attended meeting to-date! Nearly 500 people gathered in South Lake Tahoe and over 300 joined online. Hosted by the California Tahoe Conservancy and Tahoe Fund, the meeting featured several new tools that will revolutionize how California tracks and communicates progress toward improving wildfire and landscape resilience. Other topics covered included progress being made in the Tahoe Basin and the benefits of landscape fuels treatments to vibrant ecosystems and economically thriving communities. … See highlights and watch recordings from the meeting on the recap page. >> https://lnkd.in/gZ7AeCEE … Tahoe Fund California Tahoe Conservancy California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Office of the Governor - California CalEPA Cal OES California Department of Conservation Bureau of Land Management USDA Forest Service Sierra Nevada Conservancy California Natural Resources Agency California State Association of Counties® Rural County Representatives of California … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #SierraNevada #Wildfire

Understanding wildfire risk has never been more important. Especially, as we continue risk reduction work across the country, implementing our Confronting the Wildfire Crisis strategy. The article we just published on our site explores the emergence of a recent tool, RiskMonitor, and how the big-picture perspective it provides is being used to guide our work. https://lnkd.in/gTCVzhM3

Explore all the updates in our October e-newsletter! ... • California Governor’s Monthly Update • Meeting Showcases California's Momentum Toward Wildfire Resilience • Interagency Treatment Dashboard Shows Progress Toward Resilience • New CAL FIRE Dashboard Shows Effectiveness of Fuels Treatments • New Webpage Brings Together California's Wildfire and Landscape Resilience Monitoring and Assessment Programs • Caldor Fire Recovery Demonstrates Success Using EFRTs • CAL FIRE & USFS Investments Confront California's Wildfire Crisis & Expand Urban Forests ... Read the newsletter here >> https://lnkd.in/gA5XTZJK ... Subscribe to get future e-newsletters in your inbox! >> https://bit.ly/TF-News … California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) Office of the Governor - California CalEPA Cal OES California Department of Conservation Bureau of Land Management USDA Forest Service Sierra Nevada Conservancy California Natural Resources Agency California State Association of Counties® Rural County Representatives of California … #WildfireTaskForce #TaskForceProgress #Wildfire #ResilientForests