Accomplishments

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What We’ve Achieved Together

While our individual accomplishments are numerous, members of the Forest Working Group have collaborated to produce great community offerings and solve common problems.

Some of our major accomplishments as a group include:

Supporting the formation of a new initiative to address community fire resiliency: Taking Action for Living Systems
Partnering to produce the 2018 Living with Fire in California’s Coast Ranges Symposium
Facilitating the formation of multiple watershed councils
Supporting numerous funding proposals for collaborative conservation work
Hosting numerous landowner-facing educational conferences, workshops and presentations
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2020 Accomplishments Report

2020 Accomplishments

A few highlights from the full 2020 Accomplishments Report include:

Developed new website: www.sonomaforests.org
Raised $7,500 from members, private foundations, and members of the public, covering 40% of annual budget
Increased membership by 25% for a total of 142 subscribed members
Monthly meetings have had 47 unique attendees and represented 36 different agencies and organizations. Average attendance per monthly members meeting is 14
Hosted or co-hosted five educational events:
- “Cooperative Prescribed Burning with the Good Fire Alliance”
  - Cohosted with Fire Forward’s Good Fire Alliance
  - 10/19—Monan’s Rill, Santa Rosa, CA
- “Forest Stewardship Workshop”
  - Supported UCANR
  - 01/2020—Ukiah, CA
- “Summer 2020 Fire Outlook”
  - CALFIRE, local fire reps
  - 07/2020—Zoom
- “Wildfire Recovery for Forest and Rural Landowners”
  - Cohosted with UCCE
  - 12/2020—Zoom
- House Meeting on Joy Ridge Rd
  - Supported community on Joy Ridge Rd, Occidental, CA
  - 12/2020—Zoom

Hosted five “brown bag” speaker events:

“Bouverie Preserve post-fire vegetation response analysis”
- Presented by Arthur Dawson, principal ecological historian, Baseline Consulting
- 11/2019–In-person presentation
“Biomass Utilization, Costs and Benefits,”
- Presented by Daniel Barad, Sierra Club
- 01/2020–In-person presentation
“Jenner Headlands Shaded Fuel Break Project”,
- Presented by Brook Edwards, Preserve Manager of Jenner Headlands, The Wildlands Conservancy
- 06/2020—Zoom
“Walbridge Fire Impacts on a Managed Healdsburg Forest,”
- Presented by Fred Euphrat, consulting forester and owner Bear Flat forest
- 09/2020—Zoom
PG&E Wildfire Settlement Funds for Vegetation Management collaborative meeting hosted by Sonoma County RCDs and Fire Safe Sonoma (two member organizations) was advertised to the Working Group membership, and numerous members attended to discuss the best use of settlement funds to prevent future wildfire
- 11/2020—Zoom
Produced quarterly newsletters, Summer 2020 and Fall 2020
Produced Forest Landowners Stewardship Guide
Held monthly Members meetings and Steering Committee meetings
and more!

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