RCRC Delivers Wildfire Risk Resolutions to Governor’s Office

Last week, RCRC Officers delivered resolutions passed by 24 member counties to the Governor’s Office outlining the risk of catastrophic wildfires on California’s public lands.  The message delivered from the resolution drive was to urge the Governor to push the U.S. Forest Service to increase forest health and vegetation management projects on federal lands.  RCRC’s Officers also expressed their gratitude to the Governor for his support of the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act (WDFA) last year, and strongly encouraged him to support the new effort this year.  The Governor’s staff and RCRC Officers agreed that devastating wildfires have deep impacts on California’s water quality and quantity, air quality, habitats, communities, carbon sequestration potential, and on climate change. 

RCRC Officers will now carry that message to key members of Congress and the Obama Administration in Washington, D.C. early next week.