Convening the Sierra – Fall 2026
September 25, 2026
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Do you live in the Foresthill Divide area of Placer Counity? SBC is conducting a survey of community members and we invite you to weigh in. The purpose of this survey is to incorporate community voices and priotities in the Foresthill Divide Community Protection Project, which will identify a pipeline of priority wildfire resilience projects with broad community support on non-Federal lands on the Foresthill Divide.
Foresthill Divide Community Protection Project Survey
The Foresthill Divide Community Protection Project will identify a pipeline of priority wildfire resilience projects with broad community support on non-Federal lands on the Foresthill Divide. See this map to view eligible areas. The majority of eligible lands for this project fall within the Wildland Urban Interface as defined by the 2025 CAL FIRE Update.
Wildfire resilience projects go through multiple phases to get from initial concept to implementation. The graphic below illustrates these phases and how they build on one another. This survey supports one component of the overall project: Phase 1, Project Concept and Prioritization on non-federal lands on the Foresthill Divide, which is funded by a capacity-building grant from Sierra Nevada Conservancy.
With support from Senator Padilla’s office, Placer County Regional Forest Health has also secured $1.5 million in congressionally-directed funding to support Phase 2: Planning and Analysis, including environmental review, for the top priority projects identified through this process.
A similar survey was conducted in 2024 to reflect county-wide priorities. This survey will focus on local priorities specific to the Foresthill Divide. It will ask stakeholders to weigh eight Objectives (Assets, Biodiversity, Ecological Commodity, Recreation, Safety, Science and Culture, Water, Wildlands Health) based on their relative importance on the Foresthill Divide. All of the objectives are important and will be included in the evaluation. The weighting is a way to express the survey taker’s personal priorities.
Foresthill Divide Community Protection Project Survey
Survey responses will be aggregated in Vibrant Planet (formerly Land Tender), a digital land management and planning platform that helps agencies and partners model wildfire risk, prioritize treatments, and track project outcomes. Vibrant Planet maps the geographic areas that provide the best protection of those weighted priorities for different user groups. The maps will be overlayed to identify areas of strong consensus across user groups, and will be used to support the creation of a pipeline of priority projects to begin moving toward implementation on the Foresthill Divide.
Your response to this survey will help inform which projects are prioritized for future funding. Thank you!
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Two SNEW services that are often requested by Sierra Nevada public agencies are energy benchmarking (sometimes including AB 802 reporting for buildings
California’s 2026-27 legislative session wrapped up September 1 after a turbulent final week of negotiations over wildfire policy, funding, and the state budget. While a last-minute proposal on wildfire liability ultimately stalled, the Legislature did restore and increase funding for climate resilience through Proposition 4 and the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF)—a meaningful outcome for Sierra communities amid a challenging state budget year.
The final plan includes $329.5 million for wildfire and forest resilience through Prop 4 and $118 million for wildfire prevention through GGRF. While these investments are an improvement over the June budget, wildfire resilience funding remains near historic lows, with no clear plan for sustained investment in future years.
Read more about the final budget, Prop 4 and GGRF allocations, and what’s next for wildfire and climate resilience in the Sierra.