In a San Francisco Chronicle Op Ed, PFT President Laurie Wayburn discusses the importance of the state’s “natural infrastructure”—the forests, meadows and streams that deliver water to our dams—in solving California’s water problems.
California’s Legislature placed a $4 billion bond on the June 2018 ballot for critical investments in California’s natural resources, water supply, and parks.
In the closing days of the California Legislative session that ended September 15, 2017, the state made investments of nearly $300 million in forests and other lands for climate mitigation, adaptation, and fire safety.
This year, PFT is urging the California Legislature to advance the state’s climate adaptation policy by investing in natural and working lands. Read the sign-on letter we’re circulating at the Capitol.
New $4 million forest health grant will help reduce the likelihood and intensity of fire spreading across the iconic Black Butte and Mount Shasta forests.
A new study, conducted by Pacific Forest Trust, shows that half of the source watersheds that supply northern California’s primary reservoirs are at risk.
