This year, Pacific Forest Trust led an effort to gain additional funding for CAL FIRE’s program to help rural forested communities prepare for wildfire, resulting in an additional $10 million of State Responsibility Area funds in the state budget.
Pacific Forest Trust looks upstream to the source to help solve California’s water problems with the first-ever Watershed Infrastructure Risk Assessment Report.
This spring, the Washington state legislature considered four carbon tax bills and now one has been submitted as a 2018 ballot initiative.
Since California’s carbon offset program began in 2013, 168 forest projects in 29 states have sequestered more than 44 million tons of carbon dioxide.
In May, Assembly Bill 1433, the Climate Adaptation and Resilience Based on Nature (CARBON) Act, passed the California Assembly with solid bipartisan support—a major acknowledgment of the climate benefits of investing in forests and other working and natural lands.
