Governor's State Budget Allocates $690 Million to Forest Health and Wildfire Resilience

Governor Newsom recently signed a budget bill that provides more than $690 million over the year to accelerate forest health and wildfire resilience projects throughout the state. With these new investments, the Newsom Administration has committed more than $2.8 billion to the programs and priorities in the CA Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan including:

• $237 million for forest health and fire prevention grants
• $135 million to state conservancies for forest health projects
• $65 million for stewardship of state-owned lands
• $50 million for post-fire reforestation
• $35 million for prescribed fire and hand crews
• $20 million for the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program
• $20 million for conserving working forests
• $15 million for forest and fire workforce training at community colleges