TRINITY COUNTY
We create jobs, innovate land stewardship practices, support youth development, and share our work with other communities. Our local programs are focused on producing desired outcomes: vibrant communities, healthy landscapes, and sustainable economies.
STATEWIDE
We are leaders in California fire and forest management and biomass utilization. Working with natural resource managers, government agency leadership and community leaders, we run a state wood energy team and lead capacity building efforts for forest and fire management across California.
Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program
NATIONAL
The Watershed Center stewards a national network of communities learning to live better with fire. This network is shaping what living with fire means, and demonstrating new approaches to fire and land management. We are leaders in the community-based forestry movement.
OUR FUNDERS & SUPPORTERS
California Department of Conservation
Community Foundation of the North State
Mountain Valley Unified School District
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
Trinity County Historical Society
Trinity County Office of Education
Trinity County Resource Advisory Committee
Trinity County Resource Conservation District
Trinity River Restoration Program
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Partners for Fish and Wildlife Program
Thanks to supporters like you,
The Watershed Center puts dozens of Trinity County residents to work in the woods every year, reducing hazardous fuels and using both mechanical methods and prescribed fire to thin timber, improving the health and resilience of our forests.
We lead water conservation and fisheries restoration programs in the South Fork Trinity River, enhance local recreation by building and maintaining multi-use trails, provide job experience and outdoor adventures for local youth, and coordinate biomass capacity building and fire management initiatives across California.
Over the last 30 years, the Watershed Center has grown into the second-largest non-governmental employer in Trinity County, rooted in the belief that a sustainable stewardship economy is possible in this resource-rich rural landscape.
We strive to share what we’ve learned over the course of our successes and failures with other communities. Our Regional Forest and Fire Capacity (RFFC) branch has helped communities and stakeholders across California assess, prioritize, strategize, and bolster their fire and forest management capacities. Our Fire Adapted Communities Network (FAC Net) shares information across agencies through a national network to better prepare for and respond to wildfires.
We are a leader in community adaptation and fire resilience locally, regionally, and nationwide.
With help from supporters like you, in concerted effort with our partners, we can crystallize our vision of healthy communities, resilient landscapes, and robust, sustainable economies.