This week CAL FIRE announced
105 local projects will receive $138 million through its Fire
Prevention Grant program. The Grant provides direct funding to
local agencies and organizations, like fire safe councils, to
support fire prevention projects like fuel reduction, wildfire
planning, and fire prevention education. Of the total award
amount, $123 million was allocated in the 2021-22 budget, and an
additional $14.8 million is being reallocated for grants from the
Department’s 2020-21 budget.
This comes as another win to counties, who are on the front lines
of preventing wildfire in California. Earlier this year
Governor Newsom appointed two county representatives, CSAC
President James Gore (Sonoma County), and Rural Counties
Representatives of California Chair Stacy Corless (Mono County),
to the California Forest Management Task Force. The Task Force
was established in 2018 to introduce a more holistic, integrated
approach toward effective forest management.
