ACCG Priorities (2026)
defined annuallyOverview
The below Priorities, details the ACCG’s 5-Year Strategic Plan corresponding objectives, actions and responsible parties for the calendar year. This list is defined annually.
Project planning, development & implementation
Continue moving forward with landscape-scale planning while also identifying and securing funding for shovel-ready projects through:
- Continuing to support and engage with USFS/UMRWA Forest Projects Plan, Phase I implementation and planning and environmental work for MAC project.
- Engaging with the USFS on their 2026 program of work.
- Engaging with UMRWA on MAC Project Implementation Plan.
- Continuing to support large-landscape analyses to help strategically accelerate implementation.
- Supporting biomass utilization.
- Focusing on projects and activities that increase forest health and meadow and wetland restoration and promote water retention on the landscape to prepare for future droughts.
- Developing a long-term monitoring plan for the ACCG forested landscape, specifically projects that ACCG has been involved in planning (such as the FPP and MAC Projects) and strategy to fund that program.
Responsible party: ACCG Planning Work Group, ACCG Monitoring Work Group
Partnerships
- Encourage development and continue to support partners conducting fuels reduction and forest health projects on all lands within the ACCG landscape.
- Build relationships and increase communications with other collaboratives, including SOFAR and YSS, and if the opportunity presents itself, work collaboratively (e.g., Caldor Fire-related restoration to the north with SOFAR, Forest Projects Plan/MAC project to the south with YSS).
- Continue to reach out to interested parties to engage with ACCG about the forest health topics.
Responsible party: ACCG Admin Work Group
ACCG’s triple bottom line — Local Economies
Prioritize putting more attention on the ACCG’s third portion of their triple bottom line approach — local economies. Focus on finding ways to be more effective with this “leg of the stool” of the triple bottom line approach, how to increase opportunities for local workforces in the forestry industry, and how to engage more with local contractors.
Responsible parties:
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- ACCG revised MOA signatories, including UMRWA, Cal Am Team, USFS and CHIPS, may meet to reflect on the topic and bring that back to the full ACCG
- ACCG Monitoring Work Group will prioritize discussion of assessing socio-economic component of projects
Shared Vision
Pyrosilviculture Shared Vision: Continue to support implementation of ACCG’s Pyrosilviculture Shared Vision.
Responsible parties: ACCG Planning Work Group
TEK Shared Vision: Continue to support implementation of ACCG’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Shared Vision.
Responsible parties: ACCG Admin, Monitoring, and Planning Work Group
Communication & Engagement
- ACCG representative(s) effectively engage with federal and state entities.
- Continue to have relevant expert presentations.
- Developing a long term funding plan for the ACCG administration.
Responsible party: ACCG Admin Work Group