RFFC Northern Region

Location: Napa, Colusa, Solano, Sonoma, & Yolo Counties

ICC is a regional partnership of Napa County RCD, Clear Lake Environmental Resource Center (CLERC), Colusa County RCD, Solano County RCD, Sonoma RCD, and Yolo County RCD, and is coordinated and administered by Napa County RCD.

Napa RCD has worked with lead partners to develop a Memorandum of Agreement codifying the collaborative, conduct a Regional Needs Assessment to better understand regional capacity needs and opportunities, and develop detailed county-level SOW’s outlining planned activities through 2025 (i.e., original grant end period), while simultaneously supporting high-priority planning, capacity building, and demonstration projects.

This funding focuses on capacity building, planning, project development, technical assistance, outreach and education, and demonstration projects . Their workplan expands upon support for program administration and Lead Partner activities, maximizing the ability for this funding to meaningfully build and sustain increased capacity and a pipeline of shovel ready projects.

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North Coast Resource Partnership (NCRP)

Location: North Coast

Total Dollars Awarded: $13,560,000

This funding will support the rapid increase of wildfire, forest, and community resiliency projects consistent with the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan, Agreement for Shared Stewardship of California's Forests and Rangelands, the California Forest Carbon Plan, and Executive Order B-52-18. This will be accomplished through refining and implementing a regional priority plan (RPP), supporting the enhanced capacity of regional partners, and developing a substantial suite of priority projects ready for implementation. Specific elements of the RPP planning process that will be leveraged and built upon include regional remote sensing, evaluation of regional priorities via the NCRP Adaptive Planning and Prioritization Framework (APPF), a portfolio of priority large scale, integrated multi-benefit, landscape scale projects, capacity investments in regional organizations, workforce enhancement, technical assistance to project sponsors, and learnings and applications of knowledge from the RPP demonstration projects, as well as from cross boundary collaboration among RFFC grantees, DOC, Task Force and other partners.

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NCRP Regional Priority Plan

NCRP Project Tracker

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North Sacramento Valley Coalition (NSVC)

Location: Glenn, Tehama, & Shasta Counties
Total Dollars Awarded: $8,160,000

NSVC is a regional partnership of Glenn County RCD, RCD of Tehama County, Shasta Valley RCD, and Western Shasta RCD and is coordinated and administered by Glenn County RCD. NSVC is working region-wide to develop a regional priority plan, support capacity building, plan priority fire resiliency projects, implement demonstration projects of new and innovative techniques, and conduct outreach and education.

This funding will support the successful growth and long-term stability of organizational, community, and collaborative capacity to effectively plan, develop, and implement projects and programs with the goal of creating multi-benefit outcomes. NSVC members will develop organizational capacity within each participating RCD as well as support other organizations throughout the NSVC RFFC Region involved with promoting conservation initiatives. The partnership will work within the region to provide technical assistance to partners and others to increase the pace and scale of project implementation in the region. Additionally, the members of the NSVC will identify opportunities for workforce development and training in order to accelerate the progress of program activities, with the aim of growing capacities and “shovel-ready” project pipelines throughout the NSVC RFFC Region.

NSVC members will collaborate in order to prioritize projects/programs that will contribute to the conception of a robust and informative Regional Priority Plan. As part of regional planning, the NSVC will assess data needs and develop strategies to collect and maintain data relevant to development of the RPP. Finally, the grant will fund demonstration project implementation. Demonstration projects will be developed with the goal of achieving multiple program benefits in mind and will integrate regional workforce development, employ new technologies, make use of innovative techniques, and include outreach components that will allow the NSVC to provide open access to, as well as expansively share the data/outcomes ascertained from these important projects.

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