An estimated 200 acres of fuels will be treated and estimated 1,000 thousand board feet (MBF) of volume to be sold with the initial funding

The U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service, Region 5 (Pacific Southwest Region), awarded a Cooperative Agreement of $1,121,320 to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL Fire) under the Good Neighbor Authority program (CFDA 10.691) on September 12, 2025. The agreement, which extends through June 30, 2033, authorizes CAL Fire to conduct comprehensive hazardous fuels reduction and forest restoration activities across four California National Forests. CAL Fire will treat an estimated 200 acres and manage approximately 1,000 thousand board feet (MBF) of timber volume under this initial funding phase.

The cooperative agreement encompasses an extensive scope of land management services including prescribed burning, timber removal, mastication, vegetation management, hazard tree removal, debris piling and burning, landscape preparation for burning and reforestation, and critical road repair and restoration to support project access. The agreement also includes National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) planning to facilitate additional prescribed burning and timber removal activities. As a negotiated sole-source award under the Good Neighbor Authority program, this agreement reflects the Forest Service's collaborative approach to increasing the pace and scale of forest health and wildfire risk reduction across California's federal lands.

The agreement spans 4 national forests and would authorize treatments to occur that will reduce hazardous wildfire including but not limited to prescribed burning, timber removal, mastication, mowing, brushing vegetation, trees, hazard tree falling, piling debris for burning, preparing the landscape to be able to burn, prepare the landscape to replant, repairing roads and restoring roads that are critical to access the projects, and national environmental policy act (nepa) planning to conduct additional prescribed burning and timber removal.