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The Forest Futures Impact Strategy 

Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation’s Forest Futures Impact Strategy aims to address the forest health crisis and mitigate the threat of catastrophic wildfire. The nature of communities is that all issues are interrelated. This Impact Strategy prioritizes solutions that simultaneously address the interconnected issues of forest health, housing, and community well-being through economic vitality. 

Protect Communities 

Ensuring our forest remains part of our future by incentivizing and enabling collaborative action and funding for forest management best practices. 

  • Incentivize neighborhood and community projects.
  • Enable sustainable forest treatments. 
  • Promote the understanding and necessity of fuel reduction and first treatment practices. 

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Build the Forest Economy 

Through innovative workforce and infrastructure development, lay the groundwork for a more robust, secure local economy. 

  • Fund new infrastructure to remove woody biomass and low-market-value trees, branches, and shrubs. 
  • Implement local green waste collaboratives. 
  • Foster a biomass-centered strategy that will utilize our trees for a transition to clean energy and regenerative economic solutions.

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Accelerate Market Solutions 

Enable new technologies and biomass utilization opportunities by catalyzing and incentivizing alternative and higher uses for woody material. 

  • Seek new market solutions to speed and scale forest restoration.
  • Attract and leverage funders and investors with community-level impact investment.
  • Provide flexible working capital for projects.   

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