The Federal Government has announced 21 new projects across the country that total $100 million in the aggregate. Three of the projects are in California national forests:
ONE: El Dorado National Forest, Georgetown Divide — $5 million for fuels reduction, fuel breaks and prescribed burning.
TWO: Tahoe National Forest: $5 million for an unnamed project around six communities near the North Yuba Landscape project.
THREE: Sequoia National Forest — $5 million for the Breckinridge and Pine Flat communities, and for “communications site” fuels reduction.
It is this appropriation to Sequoia National Forest that has drawn ACL’s main excitement at this time. ACL has actively been working on convincing the US Forest Service to “step up” inventory to help the Sierra Forest Products mill in Terra Bella, California — pretty much the last remaining mill between Central California and the Mexican border. If this appropriation can help that mill, a major short-term 2024 goal will have been achieved by Associated California Loggers — as a function of the “American Loggers Council/US Forest Service MOU” signed by American Loggers Council President Mike Albrecht.
However, the other two projects also will clearly help areas within the state in which our members have shown an interest to “do the work” to promote forest health and management.
Click on this link for more information on these “money projects,” including a press release and a chart with detail on the three California projects:
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240910_press_release_of funding for 21 new projects nationwide