Who We Are

CFCF is a 501c3 organization created in 2020. We became aware that the educational field tours and professional forestry speakers which have been a fixture of the Forest Landowners of California for decades, could be more effective and have greater reach if provided by a 501c3 entity, so that donations are eligible for income tax deductibility, thus being more attractive to donors. CFCF provides public and landowner education such as workshops, field tours, and speakers.

Since 2020,  the effective date of CFCF’s Federal tax exemption approval,  the statewide wildfire threat to California has grown, and with it, our mission at CFCF.

One current focus is to meet the perceived funding gaps in California state and Federal funding for non-industrial/small forest landowners who wish to better manage their forests to make them more resistant to the growing catastrophic wildfire threat. The state has massive funding for catastrophic wildfire resilience work.  There is a real need for private funding for CFIP application costs, which are difficult for many small private forest landowners to afford, making it hard for them to access CFIP funds for their forest fuel reduction activities to lessen their catastrophic wildfire risk. CFCF will also partner with CalFire to educate landowners about the newly available CalFire Wildfire Resilience Block Grant funding, and will seek grants under that program to assist multiple landowners to together do their forest fuel reduction/wildfire resilience activities.

Multiple governmental agencies and NGOS are scrambling to implement wildfire resilience activities for private small forest landowners, amid the firehose (pun intended) of one-time state funding. We anticipate that as funding streams and the capacities of these entities evolve, CFCF will shift its own programmatic offerings to best help small forest landowners.