Since it's inception in November 2018, the Forest Health and Wildfire Resiliency Program (FHWRP) has planned and coordinated fuels projects, fire infrastructure and natural resources mapping, prescribed burning, and wildfire prevention outreach throughout Monterey County. FHWRP has been instrumental in working with local agencies, groups and interested stakeholders to bolster fire prevention and forest health throughout the county's Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) as well as acquiring funding for organizational capacity, building local groups that focus on prescribed burning and community defensible space.

The program's funding for forest health and fuels reduction work has been awarded predominantly from:
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CALFIRE), California Marine Sanctuary Foundation (CMSF), Department of Conservation (DOC), State Coastal Conservancy (SCC), Monterey County's Department of Emergency Management (DEM), and Monterey County's Housing and Community Development (HCD). 

Recent Projects in progress or completed by FHWRP:

• Monterey Bay Prescribed Fire and Cultural Burning Expansion

• Monterey County Forest Health and Fire Resilience (MCFHFR) Regional Priority Plan (RPP)

• Carmel Valley Fuelbreak Project (CVFB)

• Los Padres Strategic Community Fuelbreak Collaborative Project

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Wildfires: Information and assistance programs

 Live-Time Information 

• Federal - InciWeb

• State - CALFIRE Incident page

• Local - Monterey County Regional Fire District

• Satellite - Satellite Fire Detection Map

• Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts

Post-Fire Assistance 

• Emergency Watershed Protection Program (EWP)

• Emergency Conservation Program (ECP)

• Monterey County Office of Emergency Services

• FEMA

• Ready.gov

• Do’s and Don’ts

• Disaster Assistance

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Contact Information

Forest Health and Wildfire Resilience Program
Resource Conservation District of Monterey County (RCDMC)
(831) 975-7775

Jamie Tuitele-Lewis
Forest Health and Wildfire Resilience Program Manager
 
Cell phone (8 am – 5 pm): (559) 593-9235

Brenna Yunn Fowler
Forest Health and Wildfire Resilience Program Specialist