The Business of Forest Health Is Booming

The Forest Business Alliance is pleased to release the first chapter of our guide to forest business development. The Analysis chapter examines funding for CAL FIRE’s Business and Workforce Development Program to Q3 2023.?

Top-level findings:

• The Business and Workforce Development Program needs more funding since the requests far outstrip the awards.
• The top five grant-receiving counties, in order, were Tuolumne, Shasta, Yolo, Placer, and Tulare.
• Counties with the highest grant success rate (% successfully funded) were Sutter, Stanislaus, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, Siskiyou, Sacramento, Nevada, Mariposa, and Alpine Counties.

More details can be found in the chapter. Comments and feedback are welcome.