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Keystone Policy Center presents private‑public plan to expand wildfire and watershed funding; Council to follow up Aug. 25
Summary
Julie Shapiro of Keystone Policy Center told the Forest Health Council’s Resources Committee that a new private‑public initiative—focused on sustainable statewide and local funding, private‑public financing, and a forest restoration economy—aims to tackle capacity, match and timing barriers. Committee members asked how to align council recommendations and will revisit the initiative at an Aug. 25 work session.
Julie Shapiro, who leads natural resources work at the Keystone Policy Center, told the Forest Health Council’s Resources Committee that a new, privately incubated effort to advance wildfire and watershed resilience is focusing on sustainable public and private funding, capacity building and creating a forest restoration economy.
The initiative—referred to in the meeting as “work” and described by Shapiro as a rapidly evolving coalition of utilities, nonprofits, federal and state agencies, and private partners—produced a scoping report after about "50 or 60" interviews. "The purpose is to advance statewide sustainable public and private funding and other strategies to enhance the pace and scale of wildfire risk reduction and watershed resilience," Shapiro said when outlining the group’s mission and vision.
Why it matters: Committee members said the Forest Health Council’s existing…
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