Memorandum
Date: January 7, 2025
To: The Honorable Lake County Board of Supervisors
From: Susan Parker, County Administrative Officer
Terre Logsdon, Chief Climate Resiliency Officer/Tribal Liaison
Subject: Consideration of Letter of Support for the "Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Forest Health and Resilience in Napa and Lake Counties" Project - CAL FIRE Forest Health Grant Program
Executive Summary:
The Lake County Resource Conservation District (Lake RCD), is seeking a letter of support from your Board for the Napa County Resource Conservation District's (Napa RCD's) grant application to the CAL FIRE Forest Health program for the "Public-Private Partnerships to Improve Forest Health and Resilience in Napa and Lake Counties" project.
This large-scale, 800+ acre vegetation management project will span Lake Hennessey, Moore Creek Park, and Snowden Vineyards in Napa County and Six Sigma Ranch in Lake County. Napa RCD is partnering with key public, private, and nonprofit entities to successfully deliver this project. They include the City of Napa, Napa County Regional Parks and Open Space District (NOSD), Suscol Intertribal Council (Suscol ITC), and Snowden Vineyards in Napa County, as well as Lake County Resource Conservation District (Lake RCD) and Six Sigma Ranch in Lake County. The project leverages a variety of ecologically-minded methods, including manual thinning and pruning, prescribed fire, and invasive species removal, to improve forest health and resilience to climate change, protect and steward the region's precious biodiversity and natural resources, and reduce the devastating impacts of wildfire. The project footprint includes important park and recreation areas in both counties as well as a primary drinking water source for the City of Napa.
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