North Bay nonprofit awarded $5.9M to help improve forest health, reduce wildfire risks

Conservation Works, a North Bay environmental conservation nonprofit, has been awarded two Cal Fire grants totaling $5.9 million for wildfire prevention projects, the nonprofit said this week.

Funded through Cal Fire’s Wildfire Resilience Program, the grants will be used by the nonprofit’s North Bay Forest Improvement Program to plan and implement wildfire risk reduction and forest health projects on private property in Lake, Mendocino, Sonoma and Napa counties.