The road to forest health and safety, in southern Humboldt County and throughout the region, is paved with fuel reduction and the return of healthy fire. We know what the result looks like—thinned trees and lots of herbaceous plants, occasionally blackened by low-intensity burns. Fire used to do all that work, before suppression became the only accepted response to it. Now we know better, but we’re stuck with fuel loads that fire alone can’t fix.
If you have forest land, you already know that excess fuel is an expensive problem to solve. It’s more than we can do ourselves, and most of us aren’t keeping up. We lack the energy, the time, and the money. Having to tend our forest seems like a drag.
Fortunately, there are several programs that help you pay for this work and actually come out ahead. It’s now possible to make money with your forest and restore it to health and safety without having to sell any timber. You can make your forest safe and earn substantial income from it, every year that you own it.
I’m engaged in this strategy with my partner on land that we own in southern Humboldt County. To help others learn how to do it, we organized a conference with experts on the programs and the options for using them.
Making Money With Your Forest
Funding forest health and fire protection
Saturday, March 14, 10–4
Redwood Playhouse
286 Sprowl Creek Rd, Garberville, CA