June 26, 2025
The North Coast Resource Partnership is offering technical support for project sponsors to utilize the Request to Suspend State Statutes and Regulations Fast-Tracking Critical Fuels Reduction Projects Tool related to the Governor’s State of Emergency Proclamation.
In early March, Governor Newsom issued an Emergency Proclamation to address the ongoing risk of catastrophic wildfire across California. As a result, the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and the California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) have developed a streamlined approach to allow eligible projects to suspend state regulations while following the recently developed Statewide Fuels Reduction Environmental Protection Plan (EPP) to expedite critical fuels reduction projects, while at the same time protecting public health and the environment.
The primary objective of the project must be at least one of these activities:
- Removal of hazardous, dead, and/or dying trees
- Removal of vegetation for the creation of strategic fuel breaks as identified by approved fire prevention plans, including without limitation, CAL FIRE Unit Fire Plans or Community Wildfire Preparedness Plans
- Removal of vegetation for community defensible space
- Removal of vegetation along roadways, highways, and freeways for the creation of safer ingress and egress routes for the public and responders and/or to reduce roadside ignitions
- Removal of vegetation using cultural traditional ecological knowledge for cultural burning and/or prescribed fire treatments for fuels reduction
- Maintenance of previously established fuel breaks or fuels modification projects
NCRP TECHNICAL SUPPORT FOR FAST-TRACKING APPLICATION
The North Coast Resource Partnership (NCRP) is collaborating with CNRA and CalEPA to implement this program by providing technical support for eligible projects within the North Coast region. Project sponsor applicants may receive guidance and recommendations for navigating the online tool, general project content development, including eligibility for suspended state regulations while following the EPP, timing requirements, best practices, and required documentation. Support will be provided by a technical expert, and will consist of a maximum of 5-10 hours of pro bono consultation. To request support, please email Rose Roberts: rroberts@northcoastresourcepartnership.org.
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February 6, 2025
The North Coast Resource Partnership (NCRP) is pleased to offer a Request for Proposals for Technical Assistance to Tribes and economically disadvantaged communities to support grant applications for landscape scale project implementation.
Types of TA provided by eligible consultants may include grant development and project development activities that directly support grant applications, such as preliminary project design/planning, site assessment, mapping and GIS analysis, permitting, environmental compliance, project benefits quantification, and cost estimates.
All proposals, including supporting documents, must be submitted via the NCRP Project Tracker; please see the NCRP Project Tracker Technical Assistance RFP webpage for instructions and more information.
Proposals will be accepted on a rolling basis via the NCRP Project Tracker and are reviewed quarterly after the following due dates: February 1, May 1, August 1, November 1.
Apply by AUGUST 1, 2025 to be considered in this round.
Please note that currently the TA program will not consider proposals focused on organizational capacity or general planning at this time.
For more information:
- General questions or assistance with NCRP Project Tracker: Rose Roberts at rroberts@northcoastresourcepartnership.org
- For Tribal project questions, please call or email NCRP Director of Tribal Engagement, Sherri Norris sherri@cieaweb.org or 510-848-2043, and/or Javier Silva, Tribal Technical Assistance Coordinator, jsilva9806@gmail.com.
- Note that Tribal project sponsors can request proposal assistance from the NCRP Tribal Engagement Team.
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January 31, 2025
Thank you to all that attended Climate Resilience in the North Coast of California.
Climate Resilience Priorities Survey and Presentation Recordings are now available on the Climate Resilience in the North Coast of California webpage.
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January 30, 2025
The NCRP is currently conducting capacity needs assessments and surveys to help inform and prioritize capacity enhancement investments, in a fair and transparent manner throughout the region. The NCRP will use the information from this assessment to inform a Regional Capacity Enhancement Strategy that is expected to expand the type and amount of NCRP capacity investments.
We look forward to working with regional partners on this important work.
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January 1, 2025
The North Coast Resource Partnership will provide county-by-county lidar derivatives in early 2025.
The State Coastal Conservancy and NASA recently provided the NCRP with funding to create a set of county-by-county lidar derivatives across the North Coast of California. Working in collaboration with the Coastal San Luis RCD, the NCRP will create the lidar products across 13 California Counties. These lidar products will provide land managers with public datasets depicting fine scale topography and forest structure that provide important foundational data for various applications.
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October 22, 2024
At the NCRP Quarterly Meeting, held at Elk Valley Rancheria on October 18, 2024, the NCRP Leadership Council reviewed the Technical Peer Review Committees’ recommendation and contingency approach for the draft suite of projects to be included in the NCRP regional award for CAL FIRE Forest Health Pilot funding. Information about the project selection process and projects approved is provided at the link below.
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May 9, 2023
The North Coast Resource Partnership (NCRP) maintains an open Request for Qualifications (RFQ) process to identify consultants to provide an array of technical services for the North Coast Region. Consultants may be contracted to provide technical assistance for project sponsors throughout the region who apply for and receive awards through the NCRP Technical Assistance Program. In addition, consultant services may include providing content and review for North Coast planning documents, research, data development, spatial analysis and mapping, project identification, development, evaluation and enhancement, and regulatory and permitting assistance.
Consultants that have submitted recent SOQs and are currently on the List of Consultant Resources for the North Coast Region do not need to resubmit. If consultants wish to update their entry on the List and/or update their SOQ, please contact Rose Roberts, rroberts@northcoastresourcepartnership.org.
Proposal Packet
All proposals should address the requirements described in the NCRP Consultant Request for Qualifications. Information for selected consultants will be included in the publicly available List of Consultant Resources.
Delivery of Proposals
Proposals should be emailed to rroberts@northcoastresourcepartnership.org.
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April 30, 2023
The NCRP Leadership Council and Technical Peer Review Committee Meetings are held quarterly on the third Friday of the following months: January, April, July, and October, except where indicated. All meetings are open to the public with opportunities for public comment.
Please Join Us!
FUTURE MEETING DATES
- October 17, 2025: Yreka area
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