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Friday, August 28, 2020

Assorted State-Forests and Fires-Funded Land Purchases

 2017-2019 CAL FIRE Forest Health Grant Awardees

EDITED FROM:

https://kiem-tv.com/2018/08/13/humboldt-county-organizations-to-receive-millions-in-grant-funding-for-wildfire-prevention/

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/10990/17-18_cci_fh_grant_awardees_web.pdf

http://acconsensus.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/2018-CCI-Awards.pdf

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/10994/2018_2019_cci_fh_fl_rp_awards_web.pdf

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/11016/2016_2017-cal-fire-cci-fh-grant-awards_web.pdf

https://www.fire.ca.gov/media/10653/fy-2019-2020-fh_fl_rp-grant-awards_web.pdf

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HUMBOLDT COUNTY:


762 acre Grizzly Creek forest CE (PURCHASE OF FUTURE DEVELOPMENT RIGHTS WITH A CONSERVATION EASEMENT, LAND REMAINS PRIVATE) in Humboldt county, $1.2 million to Sean and Kathryn O'Day

-CalFire 7/2017 to 6/2018

--Forest Legacy Program granted $995,000 to purchase, https://www.toposandanthros.com/blog/2018/7/9/community-forest

https://kiem-tv.com/2018/08/13/humboldt-county-organizations-to-receive-millions-in-grant-funding-for-wildfire-prevention/

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restoration work on 484 acres; A part of 11,000 acres of existing CE's in Humboldt county, Redwoods to the Sea Corridor/Mattole River watershed; CalFire 7/2017 to 6/2018

http://sanctuaryforest.org/programs/land-conservation/land-acquisition/

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purchase of 49 acre Forsyth-inholding addition to Arcata community forest, grantee: City of Arcata. $227,000. (expansion of community forest began in 2006, adding 559 acres)

MAP: https://madriverunion.com/arcata-community-forest-gains-49-acre-forsyth-tract/

-CalFire 7/2017 to 6/2018

https://madriverunion.com/forsyth-property-being-logged-prior-to-city-purchase/

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6164 acre McKay forest/Ryan creek fee and CE purchase by TPL from Green Diamond timber co. with grant of $3.6 million (fee purchase 197 acres; CE purchase is 5967 ac.)-CalFire 7/2017 to 6/2018

http://kymkemp.com/2020/06/24/mckay-community-forest-approved-for-197-acre-expansion/

-----https://www.tpl.org/our-work/humboldt-community-forest

The project's first phase will create a 1200-acre community forest for Humboldt County-a revenue-generating open space for county residents that also celebrates the county's working forest heritage with interpretive trails explaining forestry principles and forest ecology. The second and third phases of the project will place working forest conservation easements on the property's remaining 6,350 acres. Plans call for construction of a recreational trail on the Ryan Creek property that would connect the shores of Humboldt Bay to the Headwaters Forest Preserve's old growth redwood groves.

------MAP: https://www.northcoastjournal.com/NewsBlog/archives/2014/04/18/mckay-tract-community-forest-five-thumbs-up

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2960 acre Diamond D CE, grant of $4.5 million to Northcoast Regional Land Trust (in progress)-CalFire 7/2017 to 6/2018

3348 acre CE on Wagner family forest in Mattole. $2.75 million grant to Northcoast Regional land trust (a keystone parcel in contiguous 15,000 acres of working forests)(status: in progress); CalFire 7/2019-6/2020

MAP: https://ncrlt.org/projects