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Services
Advancing Rural Resilience Through Working Lands, Community Investment, and Landscape Stewardship.
Rural Resilience requires investment in working lands, community stability, and the ecosystems that sustain them. Our programs operate across these interconnected systems to support environmental restoration, economic opportunity, and infrastructure resilience in Northern California’s rural communities.
Technical Assistance & Education for Mendocino Cultivators
We provide technical assistance with Lake & Streambed Alteration Agreements (LSAA), site assessments, best management practices (BMPs) education, and regulatory navigation support, to help align cultivation practices with watershed health, habitat protection, and long-term land stewardship goals.
Our team works directly with cultivators and landowners to identify compliance gaps, restoration benefit strategies, and strengthen farm systems using permaculture-informed approaches.
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Forest Health & Wildfire Resilience
We support rural communities in organizing and implementing Fire Safe Roads — collaborative groups of neighbors working together to strengthen wildfire prepardeness, shared infrastructure, and landscape-scale forest health.
Through landowner coordination, defensible space planning, road improvement strategies, forest health assessments, and grant access support, we help communities reduce wildfire risk and build long-term climate resilience.
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Community Reinvestment
We support system-impacted individuals and underserved rural residents in Mendocino County through navigation services, record clearance clinics (including conviction relief under California law), and coordinated access to resources.
Our goal is to remove barriers to economic mobility while strengthening community stability. By investing in equitable access to opportunity, this program supports local workforce development and promotes long-term economic resilience in rural regions.
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