The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest more than $48.6 million this year through the Joint Chiefs’ Landscape Restoration Partnership. This year, the USDA Forest Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) will invest in 14 new projects, bringing together agricultural producers, forest landowners, and National Forest System lands to improve forest health using available Farm Bill conservation programs and other authorities. One of the 14 programs focuses on Trinity County, California for fire resiliency in rural communities. This project is part of an ongoing effort to protect the rural communities and natural resources of Trinity County in northwestern California. Building on two past Joint Chiefs projects, this project will address high-risk cross-boundary threats by strategically treating forests on both private and national forestlands. It will also address new threats created by the post-fire landscape from the 2020 and 2021 wildfires. Spearheaded by the Trinity County Collaborative Group, diverse stakeholders from across the spectrum of local and regional interests are working together to reduce and mitigate wildfire threats to communities and landowners, protect and improve water quality and supply for communities and industry, and improve habitat conditions for at-risk species while assisting in habitat recovery in areas recently impacted by wildfires.
