Forests Futures
Sugar Bowl Ski Resort Partners with Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation to Drive Aligned Forest Solutions
Sugar Bowl Ski Resort has shaped the Donner Summit community for decades, not only as a place people live, work,…
Forest Futures
Our Forest Futures campaign will ensure healthy forests today, tomorrow, and forever— to unlock the innovation and resources that hold the potential to solve our communities’ underlying forest restoration and management issues. We have a responsibility to join together to implement progressive solutions to ensure forest health for generations to come.
Forest Futures will identify, build, accelerate, and scale the solutions we need; setting in motion a series of projects, initiatives and funding mechanisms to achieve these essential goals. Take a look at our Impact Strategy and learn how we got here through our Position Paper.
To date, TTCF has raised $16.44 million to fund Forest Futures and granted over $6.1 million to local organizations.
Learn about Forest Futures Grantees & ProjectsOur Forest Futures Salons feature storytelling from local leaders, encouraging participants to think about what it means to protect our region’s natural resources and steward our collective home. These gatherings provide community education around current topics in TTCF’s Forest Futures Impact Strategy and develop readiness for opportunities. They also plant the seeds of action and build discourse for addressing regional challenges.
With our Forest Futures grant, we were able to provide housing stipends to our workers which was essential for completing seasonal fuel reduction projects. We have no shortage of work that needs to be done, and knowing that positions can go unfilled due to the housing challenges we face in our area, these stipends were monumental in recruiting workers by offsetting the high costs they needed to pay in rent.
In mid-July, the Barracuda Championship – the PGA TOUR tournament contested at Old Greenwood – partnered with Forest Futures to highlight our efforts to minimize the risk of extreme wildfires through better preparation, investment in forest health and infrastructure, and diversification of local economies.
PGA TOUR players Joshua Creel and Jonas Blixt got a birds eye view of the region’s environmental challenges. The golfers hiked the Sawtooth/06 trail along with Tahoe National Forest Truckee District Ranger Jonathan Cook-Fisher and TTCF CEO Stacy Caldwell and viewed the Five Creeks project along the Highway 89 corridor between Olympic Valley and Truckee – a key evacuation route still in need of clearing and discussed efforts to clear this route with funding from Forest Futures.
Take a look at the video and read the press release.
Join us in acting on behalf of Tahoe’s forests and all those who depend on them. Join us to build a new kind of ecosystem—an ecosystem of people, ideas, solutions and investment—that will give us the means to protect and restore the most valuable ecosystem of all: our forests.
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