Willow Creek Community Wildfire Resilience Project
This Project has an Update in progress.
Project Overview
Basics
Implementation
This project consists of a suite of treatments to be implemented throughout the rural and unincorporated communities of Willow Creek, Hawkins Bar, and Salyer in Humboldt and Trinity Counties. This is a collaborative project, with partners from local entities- including a Fire Safe Council, Prescribed Burn Association, a Volunteer Fire Department, and TCRCD- taking lead roles in community outreach and project implementation. Treatment areas were identified as priorities in the Humboldt and Trinity Counties' Community Wildfire Protection Plans. Along with implementation of fuel reduction activities, this project will build internal capacity for long-term land stewardship in these communities.
2023
2024
2027
2/20/2025
Project Attributes
Census Tract Income
None
Direct Benefits to Disadvantaged Communities (DACs)
None
EnviroScreen
None
Free and Reduced Lunch
None
Indirect Benefits to Disadvantaged Communities (DACs)
None
Tribal Engagement (True/False)
None
Tribal Engagement
None
Location
Project has nine treatment areas, exact locations are still being refined.
Organizations
| Funder | |
| Lead Implementer | |
| Partners | |
| Primary RCD | |
| State Assembly Voting District | |
| State Senate Voting District | |
| Other Partners | Willow Creek Community Services District |
Contacts
Katrina Henderson - Humboldt County Resource Conservation District (Humboldt County RCD) (katrina@hcrcd.org)
Performance Measures
Expected Performance Measures
| Fuels Reduction | CAL FIRE UNIT: Humboldt Del Norte Project Objective: Shaded Fuelbreak Property Ownership: Private Treatment Type: Mechanical Thinning | 250 acres |
| Fuels Reduction | CAL FIRE UNIT: Humboldt Del Norte Project Objective: Forest Resiliency Property Ownership: Private Treatment Type: Brush Removal | 40 acres |
Reported Performance Measures
| Fuels Reduction | |||||||
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| CAL FIRE UNIT | Project Objective | Property Ownership | Treatment Type | Total | 2025 | 2024 | Units |
| Humboldt Del Norte | Forest Resiliency | Private | Brush Removal | 0 | 0 | 0 | acres |
| Humboldt Del Norte | Shaded Fuelbreak | Private | Mechanical Thinning | 0 | 0 | 0 | acres |
| Total | 0 | 0 | 0 | acres | |||
Financials
Budget
| Comment: | None provided |
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Reported Expenditures
| 2023 | 2024 | 2025 | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| USDA Community Wildfire Defense Grant (USDA ARS) | $23,106.42 | $988,228.80 | $0.00 | $1,011,335.22 |
| Grand Total | $23,106.42 | $988,228.80 | $0.00 | $1,011,335.22 |
| Note: | Grant was awarded late 2023, expenditures not finalized for 2025 at this time. |
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Project Themes
Project Themes
This project will help the communities of the Greater Willow Creek Area build resilience to the high risks of wildfire inherent to this region. Through reducing forest fuels in strategic shaded fuel breaks and roadside reduction treatments, assisting community members in creating defensible space around their homes, providing home hardening assessments, and building the capacity of existing community organizations, the Willow Creek CWDG will move this region beyond response to wildfire emergencies and toward a future of proactive land stewardship.
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