Blue Forest is exploring opportunities, pending a signed National Environmental Policy Act Record of Decision, for a Forest Resilience Bond (FRB) supporting the restoration of up to 12,000 acres on the Plumas National Forest in the northern part of California’s Sierra Nevada. Blue Forest recognizes that the project area makes up the ancestral, traditional, and contemporary homeland of the Mountain Maidu Peoples, who have stewarded these lands since time immemorial. Through the High Road to Tribal Forest Restoration and Stewardship program, our partners at the Sierra Institute for Community and Environment support Tribal restoration crews in building their capacity to implement restoration projects across homelands.

As a part of the 167,000-acre North Fork Forest Recovery Project, this FRB would support post-fire forest recovery treatments in the Dixie Fire footprint, as well as forest health treatments in unburned forest areas. Treatments include hazard tree removal, reforestation, invasive species management, prescribed fire, and other hydrological improvement practices. The North Fork Forest Recovery Project aims to reduce fire risk and increase resilience for the landscape and nearby communities. Additionally, treatment activities are expected to improve aquatic habitat, increase water quality, and protect water supply.