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Rural County Representatives of California Reports California Leadership Announces Forest Task Force Relaunch and Early Action Wildfire Funding Published: Monday, 12 April 2021 05:53 April 12, 2021 - The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) reports last Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom and California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot announced the relaunch of the Governor’s Forest Management Task Force, which will feature a new collaborative leadership structure utilizing experts at all levels of government, including RCRC Chair Supervisor Stacy Corless, Mono Co...

Including california are decadent. we've got 100 years where we've been suppressing fires because we're protecting lives and property, 40 million people in california. can't afford to have fire burning the landscape. but with that has come a buildup of -- a natural buildup of fuels. so active thinning. governor brown has led efforts through a tree mortality task force dealing with 126 million dead trees, and now a forest management task force that is leading significant efforts to increase the pace and scale in treating up to 500,000 acres a year. and that's forest thing. that's prescribed fir...

>> so forests across the west, including california, are decadent. we've got 100 years where we've been suppressing fires because we're protecting lives and property, 40 million people in california. can't afford to have fire burning the landscape. but with that has come a buildup of -- a natural buildup of fuels. and so, active thinning. governor brown has led efforts through a tree mortality task force dealing with 126 million dead trees, and now a forest management task force that is leading significant efforts to increase the pace and scale in treating up to 500,000 acres a year. and that'...