Stanislaus National Forest Awarded $55M

Based on results of years of scientific research and planning, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service released “Confronting the Wildfire Crisis:  A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests” in January 2022. As outlined in the Implementation Plan, the goal of this process was to identify landscapes that (1)have projects that are at scale or can be built out to scale, (2) are outcome driven, (3) are collaboratively
developed with communities and ready for implementation, (4) allow for investment in underserved communities, (5) could leverage current partner investments, and (6) could maximize use of existing authorities. Read more here:  WCS-Initial-Landscape-Investments