| Priorities for 2026 | Responsible party |
| 1) Project planning, development & implementation: Continue moving forward with landscape-scale planning while also identifying and securing funding for shovel-ready projects. | |
| Continuing to support and engage with USFS/ UMRWA Forest Projects Plan, Phase I implementation, and planning for MAC project. | Planning Work Group |
| Engaging with UMRWA on MAC Project Implementation Plan. | Planning Work Group |
| Engaging with the USFS on their 2026 program of work. | Planning Work Group |
| Continuing to support large-landscape analyses to help strategically accelerate implementation. | Planning Work Group |
| Supporting biomass utilization. | Planning Work Group |
| 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. | Planning Work Group |
| Developing a long-term monitoring plan for the ACCG forested landscape, specifically projects that ACCG has been involved in planning (such as the FPP/MAC component) and strategy to fund that program. | Monitoring Work Group |
| 2) Partnerships | |
| Encourage development and continue to support partners conducting fuels reduction and forest health projects on all lands within the ACCG landscape. | Admin Work Group |
| 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). | Admin Work Group |
| Continue to reach out to interested parties to engage with ACCG about the forest health topics. | Admin Work Group |
| 3) 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.
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· 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
· Monitoring Work Group will prioritize discussion of assessing socio-economic component of projects |
| 4) Pyrosilviculture Shared Vision | |
| Continue to support implementation of ACCG’s Pyrosilviculture Shared Vision. | Planning Work Group |
| 5) TEK Shared Vision | |
| Continue to support implementation of ACCG’s Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) Shared Vision. | · Admin Work Group
· Monitoring Work Group · Planning Work Group
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| 6) Communication & Engagement | |
| ACCG representative(s) effectively engage with federal and state entities. | Admin Work Group
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| Continue to have relevant expert presentations. | Admin Work Group
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| Developing a long-term funding plan for the ACCG administration. | Admin Work Group |
