State Issues Nearly $2 Million in Grants to Build Local Capacity to Protect and Restore State Forests

SACRAMENTO – Eight organizations have received $1.85 million in grants to hire watershed coordinators who will build local capacity to improve forest health, the Department of Conservation (DOC) announced today.

“Healthy forests are essential to reduce catastrophic wildfires, supply clean water, and help reduce greenhouse gas emissions,” DOC Director David Bunn said. “Watershed coordinators can play a major role in ensuring the health of our forests by promoting collaboration, integrating watershed management efforts, and supporting local activities that restore resilience to forest lands.”

Local projects will support the state’s Forest Carbon Plan and Executive Order B-52-18 and help achieve the California Global Warming Solutions Act’s goal of reducing California’s greenhouse gas emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030.  The recipients, headquarters location, and amount of funding each received:

• YSS/Tuolumne River Trust, San Francisco, $235,000

Read more at:  https://www.conservation.ca.gov/index/Pages/News/State-Issues-Nearly-$2-Million-in-Grants–to-Build-Local-Capacity-to-Protect-and-Restore-State-Forests.aspx