Workforce Development
The Workforce Development Work Group is developing and promoting training and vocational programs and other strategies to expand our forestry-related workforce.
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resources
CAL FIRE's Wood Products and Bioenergy Program
Business & Workforce Development Grants
Work Group Products
Forest Sector Workforce Study Report
Education and Workforce Development Programs
Shasta College Heavy Equipment Logging Operations & Maintenance Certificate
Lake Tahoe Forestry Education and Job Placement Program
Central Valley Forestry Corps
California Resilient Careers in Forestry
Bakersfield College Forestry & Natural Resources
College of the Redwoods Forestry & Natural Resources
Columbia College Forestry & Natural Resources
Feather River College Forest Health & Fuels Management
Reedley College Forestry & Natural Resources
Santa Rosa College Natural Resources
Shasta College Forestry & Natural Resources
Shasta College Pest Control Advisor Preparation
Cal Poly Humboldt Forestry, Fire & Rangeland Management
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Forestry & Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley Forestry & Natural Resources
California Registered Apprenticeship for Forest Training
California Conservation Corps
Forestry & Fire Recruitment Program
Press
5.27.22: CAL FIRE Invests in Workforce and Business Development
Forestry Challenge’s 2022 Annual Report
Shasta College Forest Health 2022-23 Year in Review
The Nature Conservancy’s Building California’s Forest Resilience Workforce
Centers of Excellence for Labor Market Research serves the California Community College system by providing research and data related to all sectors. THIS LINK takes you to their Advanced Publication Search where a search of keyword Forestry will pull up all LMI reports they have completed for the Ag & Natural Resources and users can then look at what interests them.
Work Group: Workforce Development
Partnering Organizations
Work Group leads
Big Sandy Rancheria – Sue Carter
Sierra Nevada Conservancy – Jonathan Kusel
U.S. Forest Service – Kathy Mick
California Conservation Corps – Aaron Dunson
Forest Products Industry – Tony Jaegel
Tim Robards – CAL FIRE
Becky Roe – Shasta-Tehama-Trinity Joint Community College District
Key Actions Assigned:
1.26 – 3.11