SACRAMENTO TASK FORCE MEETING RECAP
December 12, 2025
The California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force’s final meeting of 2025 was anything but business-as-usual. During the meeting, Task Force and CAL FIRE leadership unveiled a slate of announcements that showcase how California’s unprecedented investments have led to large sustainable increases in wildfire prevention work with a focus on treatments that matter most.
Additionally, the Task Force highlighted key elements of the upcoming 2026 Wildfire and Landscape Action Plan, a new 10-year roadmap to resilience, and how we are moving beyond measuring progress simply by number of acres treated with new outcome-based measures.
Welcome & Executive Remarks
Co-chairs
- Wade Crowfoot, California Natural Resources Agency
- Jason Kuiken, U.S. Forest Service
Task Force Executive Committee
- Daniel Berlant, CAL FIRE
- Anne Cottrell, Napa County Supervisor
- Bobby Macaulay, Madera County Supervisor
- Don Hankins, Indigenous Stewardship Network
- Miranda Flores, Governor’s Office
- Katie Landau, Cal EPA
Director’s Report
Patrick Wright, Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force
SB 254 Natural Catastrophe Resiliency Study
Laurie Johnson, CA Earthquake Authority
Looking Back: What Have We Accomplished?
Marissa Christiansen, Climate & Wildfire Institute
Alan Talhelm, CAL FIRE
Mike Sintetos, CAL FIRE
Looking Forward: The Draft 2026 Action Plan
Moderator: Steve Ostoja, Task Force
Draft 10-Year Roadmap:
• Jonathan Long, USDA Climate Hub
• John Battles, UC Berkeley
Draft Framework for Mobilizing Regional Action:
• Forest Schafer, Task Force
• Brian Newman-Lindsay, DOC
• Frank Bigelow, CAL FIRE
New Interagency Shared Strategies & Recommendations:
• Christiana Darlington, CLERE, Inc.
• Michelle Selmon, Department of Fish & Wildlife
• Angie Lotts, CA Parks
• Emily Blackmer, Sierra Business Council
• Kyle Kabasares, NASA Ames
Closing Remarks
Task Force Co-Chairs