Inner Coast Collaborative

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Inner Coast Collaborative

The Inner Coast Collaborative is a regional partnership focused on improving forest health and fire resilience that spans 5,500 square miles across Colusa, Lake, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo Counties (i.e., the Inner Coast region).

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General Info

Funded by a Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program block grant, the Inner Coast Collaborative focuses on regional planning and coordination, project planning and provision of technical assistance, and building and sustaining capacity. Activities supported by this endeavor will range in scale from a single community, an entire county, or the whole region.

Napa RCD has been awarded a Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Block grant to support regional planning and collaboration, project planning, and capacity building to improve forest health, fire resilience, and community wildfire preparedness across Colusa, Lake, Napa, Solano, Sonoma, and Yolo Counties (i.e., the Inner Coast region).

Partners

This endeavor is a collaborative effort between Lead Partners in each county, and is coordinated and administered by Napa RCD.

Lead Partners include:
Colusa Resource Conservation District
Clear Lake Environmental Research Center
Napa Resource Conservation District
Solano Resource Conservation District
Sonoma Resource Conservation District
Yolo Resource Conservation District

Objectives

Building a Pipeline of Shovel-Ready Projects

  • Project planning, environmental review, and permitting
  • Development of technical assistance (TA) models and provision of TA
  • Support collaboratives or groups to identify project priorities and act on them.

Building and Sustaining Capacity

  • Identifying and supporting capacity building needs (internal organizational, local, regional)
  • Prescribed Burn Association (PBA) and Fire Safe Council (FSC) development and support
  • Supporting administration of regional cost-share programs
    Community outreach, education and demonstration projects
  • Fund development

Regional Coordination and Planning 

  • Regional and statewide coordination
  • Regional outreach and engagement strategy development
  • Regional Priority Plan (RPP) development
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Sonoma Resource Conservation District Logo
Yolo County Resource Conservation District Logo

This work is funded in whole or in part through a Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program grant awarded to Napa RCD by the California Department of Conservation.

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How can I get involved?

Learn more about the RFFC Inner Coast Collaborative by contacting Ali Blodorn, or the partner above in your county. 

Contact

Ali Blodorn
Principal Program Manager, Forest Health
Ali@NapaRCD.org
707-690-3115

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