Alvarado-Gil announces $29M in forest health funds

News release

Sen. Alvarado-Gil has helped to secure $29 million through Cal Fire for several wildfirerelated projects throughout Senate District 4, according to a news release. These investments aim to help regions devastated by wildfires in the past and support various initiatives toward wildfire prevention.

The projects include e orts to help with recovery and reforestation growth in areas impacted by the Rim, Caldor and Mosquito fires. The treated areas will be resilient to natural disturbances, fostering long-term carbon sequestration, timber products, healthy watersheds and a forest-dependent wildlife habitat.

Additionally, funds were awarded to the American River Conservancy and Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority to help reduce fuel and implement ecological forestry management.

“We must continue to support wildfire recovery in areas that recent fires have impacted and take the lessons learned to bolster investments in prevention e orts through proper forestry management,” states Alvarado-Gil.

Upper Mokelumne River Watershed Authority Executive Director Richard Sykes expressed his gratitude. “We are extremely grateful to Sen. Alvarado-Gil for her support and dedication in ensuring we receive the much-needed funding to reduce excess surface fuels in our watershed.”

In El Dorado County almost $7 million will go toward forest projects in the Upper Mokelumne, just over $3 million toward American River Conservancy’s South Fork of the American River restoration project, more than $4 million for California Forestry Association Caldor Fire recovery and almost $2 million to recover research and demonstration capacity following wildfires at University of California research forests.