The Weaverville Community Forest is an award-winning partnership between the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the Trinity County Resource Conservation District (TCRCD) to manage 14,963 acres of federal lands for forest health objectives. For Weaverville and surrounding communities, this unique Forest Stewardship model offers a way to recruit and sustain local involvement in the management of federal lands for local needs and desires by matching the resource needs of federal land managers with the skills of a locally run conservation district.

This forest is located within the Weaverville basin, in Trinity County, California and supports a variety of activities, including intensively used trails, firewood sales, fuels reduction projects, forest thinning, and logging. With the overarching goals of high visual quality, fire resiliency and improved forest health, the TCRCD works with its partners to achieve these goals through its strategic and operation plans. The historical model of timber-based economies is changing, as it must, to become an opportunity for multi-use, community-driven forest management that creates and retains living wage jobs in an otherwise economically challenged rural community. The community forest provides timber for the town mill, educational and historical significance, and maintains forest continuity visual aesthetics for the town residents.

This partnership uses a federal contracting tool called the Stewardship Contracting (enacted as a pilot program in 2003). This community forest-themed Stewardship Contract is being closely watched in Washington DC and around the country because it is s a truly notorious partnership in conceptual forest stewardship. The Weaverville Community Forest hopes to keep expanding its opportunities by increasing community involvement, and by continuing to strengthen the connections between the land and people.

The Weaverville Community Forest is home to both the Trinity Children’s Forest and the Weaver Basin Trail System.

June 7th, 2023 10:00 am
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