The Work

Current Priorities:

Redwood Futures

Redwood Futures is a collaboration of diverse players from the entire redwood bioregion who are developing an actionable plan to revitalize the region's ecology and economy. Elements of the vision include:

A region with a shared identity and shared sense of ownership for its activities and a shared commitment to creating a future together.
A place that mobilizes and focuses its resources toward the future through sustainable practices and simultaneously takes into consideration the ecological, economic and social equity issues as they relate to forests and communities.
Forests that provide a variety of conservation values across the landscape.
A vibrant natural resources economy providing a broad range of employment and business opportunities for residents.
Managed forests that have mature forest characteristics providing high quality wood, high quality habitat for a diversity of species and fire resiliency.

For more information on Redwood Futures, visit Redwood Forest Foundation's website at www.rffi.org or follow this link.

Redwood Coast Connect

Redwood Coast Connect is a project working towards the goal of making broadband available to all rural communities in Del Norte, Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties through assessing and mapping the needs of users, engaging telecom providers, simplifying policies and tapping the ingenuity of entrepreneurs in the region. The first phase of this project, analyzing the current demand, supply and policy climate has been completed and the report can be found here.

For more information on the RCC project, visit the website at http://www.humboldt.edu/rcc/?content=home
To view last year's Redwood Coast Broadband Forum agenda, click here.

Transportation

Rural transportation has been identified as an area of focus, and RCRA is actively engaged with efforts to help ensure rural voices are included as new legislation is crafted at all levels; locally, state and nationally. Local RCRA leaders are part of the National Rural Assembly's working group for transportation, and Kathy Moxon serves as Co-Chair of this effort. Watch Kathy describe rural livability and why it's essential here.

For more information on the National Rural Assembly's transportation stand please visit their website at: http://www.ruralassembly.org/working-groups/transportation or read the latest position paper at: http://www.ruralassembly.org/sites/ruralassembly.org/files/Rural_Trans_Policy_Paper.pdf

Economic Development

RCRA in partnership with Humboldt County Office of Economic Development will be hosting a regional economic development summit this spring. Speakers will present information on the current state of the economy and industry cluster work plans for the future.

For specific county economic development information, click on the links below.