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The 2020-21 Spending Plan — Other Provisions
Notably, the final budget package does not include $25.8 million from the General Fund and $75 million from federal funds to implement the Wildfire Mitigation Financial Assistance Program created by Chapter 391 of 2019 (AB 38, Wood). Additionally, the budget does not include proposed resources for various disaster planning, preparedness, response, and administrative activities conducted by the department.

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Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance for the July 2018 Shasta County Wildfire (Carr Fire)Provides federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) benefits for victims who are unemployed as a direct result of the wildfires, mudslides, or debris flows and who do not qualify for regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits.DE 8714YB – English | DE 8714YB/S – Spanish
Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance for the November 2018 Camp Fire in Butte CountyProvides federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) benefits for victims impacted by the November 2018 Camp Fire in Butte County.DE 8714YC – English | DE 8714YC/S - Spanish
Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance for the November 2018 Woolsey Fire in Ventura and Los Angeles CountiesProvides information about federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) benefits available for victims impacted by the November 2018 Woolsey Fire in Ventura and Los Angeles Counties.DE 8714YD – English | DE 8714YD/S - Spanish
Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance for the November 2018 Hill Fire in Ventura CountyProvides information about federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) benefits available for victims impacted by the November 2018 Hill Fire in Ventura County.DE 8714YE – English | DE 8714YE/S - Spanish
Federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance for the December 2017 and January 2018 California Wildfires and MudslidesProvides federal Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) benefits for victims who are unemployed as a direct result of the wildfires, mudslides, or debris flows and who do not qualify for regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) benefits.DE 8714YZ – English | DE 8714YZ/S - Spanish
Form 1099G Information SheetAn informational sheet, or “EDD Fact Sheet,” that provides general information about Form 1099G.DE 8714Q – English  | DE 8714Q/S – Spanish | DE 8714Q/A – Armenian | DE 8714Q/CC – Traditional Chinese (Cantonese) | DE 8714Q/CM – Simplified Chinese (Mandarin) | DE 8714Q/K – Korean | DE 8714Q/T – Tagalog | DE 8714Q/V – Vietnamese
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Track our progress reducing overgrown vegetation, which helps remove what fires need to spread or become more severe. 

Fire is an essential ecological process; however, many parts of the state are more vulnerable to severe wildfires, droughts, and impacts from a changing climate. Millions of Californians live in or near wildlands and other high-risk areas, and many more depend on the benefits these ecosystems provide.
CAL FIRE and our local grantees are removing overgrown vegetation through prescribed fire, tree thinning, pruning, chipping, and roadway clearance. These efforts create breaks that change fire behavior, reduce negative ecosystem impacts, and enable fire fighters to protect communities. 

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CAL FIRE engages in fuels reduction work and fire prevention activities year-round. Track the progress of projects funded this year and last fiscal year.
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Treatment acres reported in CAL FIRE’s Fuel Reduction Projects Viewer may differ from those displayed in the California Wildfire & Forestry Resilience Task Force Dashboard. CAL FIRE’s Viewer reports by the state fiscal year (July-June), only includes treatments related to fuels reduction, and includes work measured in units such as hours and tons.
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CAL FIRE provides grant opportunities to improve forest health and improve firefighting capacity throughout the State.

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CAL FIRE’s grants programs support fire prevention, improve forest health, and enhance community resilience. These programs offer funding opportunities to empower communities in their efforts to mitigate fire risks and bolster safety measures.

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Strengthen the forest-sector workforce and businesses of California while promoting healthy, resilient forests. Business development projects, workforce development projects, and research and development projects are considered. 

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Cost-sharing assistance is available for public and private forest land to maintain high quality timber supplies while building a stable forest resource system for future generations. Funds improve all forest resources, including fish and wildlife habitat, and soil and water quality. 

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Forest Health grants fund restoration and reforestation activities. Activities can include fuels reduction, prescribed fire, pest management, and biomass utilization.
Projects focus on mitigating climate change, protecting communities from the risk of fires, strengthening rural economies, and improving California's water and air. 

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Climate Change
In these and more ways, parks improve public health just by being there.
Tackling the cause: Parks sequester enormous amounts of carbon, locking it in soil and vegetation and keeping it out of the atmosphere.
Helping the environment: Parks act as refuges for biodiversity, supporting birds, insects, fish, amphibians, mammals, plants and fungus that are the foundation of our biotic system. Parks also provide connectivity for these species to migrate and adapt to variable conditions.

For these reasons, growing, preserving and optimizing parkland here and everywhere is essential for our collective health and safety. For agencies like Sonoma County Regional Parks, our mission intersects with an imperative shared by everyone: to fight climate change and minimize its effects. Sonoma County Regional Parks is in the process of developing a Climate Adaptation and Resilience Plan, which will help address climate change impacts and protect natural resources.
Wildfire, drought, and other dangers
California and the West have experienced a noticeable increase, both in frequency and severity, of storm surges, floods, droughts, heat waves, high-wind events and wildfires. Many of these weather patterns amplify each other — for example, the combination of extreme drought, heat and wind has resulted in unprecedented wildfires throughout the Western United States.
Over the past few years, record-breaking wildfires in Sonoma County have turned local parks into battlegrounds. Hood Mountain Regional Park & Preserve was severely burned during the Nuns fire in 2017 and again during the Glass fire in 2020 — but in both cases firefighters held the fires at the park, saving neighborhoods in Santa Rosa. Similarly, Foothill Regional Park became a frontline during the Kincade fire in 2019, and although nearly all of the park burned, firefighters held the fire there and saved the neighboring town of Windsor.
These dramatic examples show how important parks are in keeping Sonoma County communities safer from the effects of climate change. And extreme wildfire isn’t the only threat we’re now facing. Increased flooding, rising sea waters, historic drought and species loss are all growing dangers in Sonoma County and beyond — dangers which parks are well-suited to deal with.
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Climate change is caused by higher levels of carbon dioxide and similar gasses entering the atmosphere.
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The collaborative project will reduce fuel loads, retain the healthiest and largest trees, allow the return of cultural burning to the landscape, improve wildlife and fisheries habitat, and create employment opportunities for Yurok Tribe members. Read More 

Tribal Workforce Forest Restoration

Grantee:    Fire Safe Council of San Diego
FY 19/20 Grant Amount:  $4,994,675
Acres of Fuel Reduction:  1,059
Number of Trees Planted:  41,475
GHG Benefit (MT CO2e): 60,895
The Fire Safe Council of San Diego County, in partnership with the Pauma Band of Luiseño Mission Indians, La Jolla Band of Luiseño Indians, Cleveland National Forest, and CalTech’s Palomar Mountain Observatory, is performing fuels reduction, pest management, and forest restoration across 1,600 acres on Palomar Mountain – one of San Diego County’s last mixed conifer forest landscapes. The project is providing multiple training avenues for Tribal youth and other Tribal members by engaging them in monitoring and implementation activities. Read More 

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The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek
For example, some changes the Legislature could consider include (1) various options for expanding existing health and wellness programs at CalFire to ensure that firefighters receive adequate professional support when they experience times of crisis, (2) policies to reduce the number of hours firefighters work in the offseason and/or the number of hours firefighters work per shift during severe wildfires, and (3) additional support for projects to improve forest conditions and make the state’s landscapes more resilient to the catastrophic fires that impose the most strain on firefighters. The Legislature also could consider providing a small amount of dedicated funding to support independent research to better understand the scope of problems with health and wellness among CalFire firefighters, such as the underlying causes and most promising approaches for cost‑effective solutions. Such research could help inform future decisions regarding whether reducing CalFire’s workweek is the optimal approach to improving firefighter health and wellness. 
If Legislature Wants to Proceed With Implementation This Year, Consider Adding Reporting Language. If the Legislature determines that reducing CalFire’s workweek is among its highest priorities for the General Fund this year, we recommend it adopt provisional budget bill language requiring the administration to track the wildfire resilience co‑benefits of the proposal—including the time firefighters spend on wildfire resilience work and the amount of resilience work completed by CalFire’s firefighters—and to report this information on an annual basis to the Legislature. Such an annual report would provide important information to help the Legislature assess how the newly approved personnel are being used and ensure that they are maximizing the wildfire resilience co‑benefits that can be achieved. (While we think this information would be particularly important if the Legislature significantly expands CalFire staffing, the Legislature may want to consider requiring such a report regardless of its action on this proposal, as it also could help improve overall understanding of wildfire resilience co‑benefits achieved by existing wildfire response staff.) 
Conclusion
The landscape has evolved markedly in a few key ways since the Legislature approved the Unit 8 MOU and the change to CalFire’s workweek in September 2022. First, the condition of the General Fund has deteriorated significantly in the intervening months, making it much more likely that the state will need to adopt significant budget reductions and/or revenue increases.
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Together they discuss trends, address concerns, develop suggestions for consideration by CAL FIRE management, and provide support and information to their local communities on urban forestry issues.
California's State Urban Forestry Program also works with our Fire Prevention Program in advocating fire-safe landscaping for homeowners and communities. Landscape design, tree selection, and maintenance are critical elements in reducing the spread of fire and the risk to adjacent buildings. Even well-designed landscapes can become hazardous if not properly maintained. The program encourages compliance with the defensible space requirement for communities in the urban-wildland interface areas (PRC 4291) and offers suggestions for types of trees, landscape designs and pruning methods to assist homeowners in meeting that standard.  
 
CAL FIRE Urban and Community Forestry is dedicated to California's efforts to adapt to and mitigate climate change. For more information about CAL FIREs statewide forestry strategies for reducing or mitigating greenhouse gas emissions, please visit our Climate Change and Energy page.
California's Forests and Rangelands 2017 Assessment
 
CAL FIRE's Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP), The 2017 Assessment covers a broad range of topics across both private and public lands. Each chapter includes a number of indicators that collectively are used to evaluate the sustainability of forest and rangelands. Chapter 3 of this assessment includes a detailed report on California's Urban and Community forests.  
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These efforts promote forest health and create conditions that change fire behavior, reduce negative ecosystem impacts, and enable fire fighters to better protect communities. 

Urban and Community Forestry

Trees improve the quality of life in urban areas in many ways. We provide technical assistance, education, and grants to help communities improve their urban forests. 

Vegetation Management

The Vegetation Management Program (VMP) is a cost-sharing program that focuses on the use of prescribed fire, and some mechanical means, for addressing wildland fire fuel hazards and other issues on State Responsibility Area lands. 

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The Wildfire Resilience Program includes several state forestry assistance programs within CAL FIRE that share the goal of improving the health and productivity of private forest lands and reducing the threat posed from wildland fires.  

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