Forests and Climate
TTCF Announces Nicole Lutkemuller as Forest Futures Program Director
Growing up in the Sierra Nevada foothills fueled Nicole’s passion for exploring, conserving, and restoring the ecosystems of the Sierra.…
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. See our Impact Strategy.
Why Us?
Why Us?
We Are Ready to Meet this Challenge
25 years of success tackling complex community issues
4 years, 97 multi-disciplinary experts and advisers joined us to form our strategy and action plan
$1MM+ granted to regional organizations for environmental projects and education through our Nature Fund
Received national recognition by Inside Philanthropy for our vision to create market-based solutions for forest health
Convening experts and fueling innovation
Forest Futures Salons
When unlike-minded people engage in productive conversations, they innovate and find a solution that sticks. Our salons bring together scientists, investors, policymakers, artists and entrepreneurs together to work towards forest solutions. We have covered a variety of topics including biomass, wood product innovation, carbon sequestration technology, project funding and more.
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What You Can Do
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.
Recent Forest Futures Updates
Forests and Climate
Wildfire Relief Efforts with 101.5
The Dixie Fire was burning to our north causing mass evacuations, destruction, smoky skies and panic. It quickly became the…
Forests and Climate
PRESS RELEASE: TTCF Raises $1MM to Propel the Forest Futures Campaign
Three-year, $30 MM Initiative Aims to “Stop Catastrophic Wildfires Before They Start” TRUCKEE, Calif. - The Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation…