Forestry Assistance Specialists

Forest health · Free, from CAL FIRE

Free technical advice on forest health, tree mortality and CFIP applications from regional CAL FIRE Forestry Assistance Specialists.

The specialist you want is the one for your own county, at the CAL FIRE unit your ground sits in, and CAL FIRE asks you to talk your project over with them before you apply for anything. The cost share behind the conversation, CFIP, is for ownerships of 20 to 5,000 acres of forest land, and it pays toward a forest management plan written by a Registered Professional Forester and toward the work that follows: replanting, thinning, pruning, habitat improvement. One thing it will not pay for is burning, so if a controlled burn is what you have in mind, that is a different door. Where this comes from

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