Inflation Reduction Act to Invest $8 Million for Restoration, Resilience in Redwood National and State Parks
This is a press release from Redwood National and State Parks:
Redwood National and State Parks will implement a project to restore the iconic redwood forest this year with $8 million from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This project is part of a nationwide effort to restore natural habitats and address climate change impacts. In 2023, President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and the Inflation Reduction Act will provide $52 million to the National Park Service to fund projects throughout the country related to ecosystem resilience, restoration, and environmental planning needs.
This project restores degraded watersheds and critical habitat for endangered fish within Redwood National and State Parks in Northern California. IRA funding will be used to accelerate large-scale restoration in the Prairie Creek watershed, including forest thinning, restoring the natural slope, and stream rebuilding. The project will be implemented by the Redwoods Rising collaborative, an ambitious public/private, landscape-level restoration initiative between the National Park Service, California State Parks, and Save the Redwoods League to accelerate watershed restoration across 43,280 acres of park lands. Since 2019, Redwoods Rising has restored thousands of acres of parklands by leveraging funding from private philanthropy, state, and federal fund sources to implement high priority restoration in two watersheds simultaneously. This project, under Redwoods Rising management, will engage Tribal groups, youth, and local contractors to implement forest and watershed restoration through 2026.
The project was strategically placed between two of the largest remaining old growth Redwoods stands in the park to help connect these forest stands with healthy habitat for fish and wildlife. Specifically, this project will implement forest thinning in second-growth forests to accelerate the development of old growth forest conditions which will create more resilient and healthy forests while improving the forests’ ability to capture carbon and reducing the risks of catastrophic wildfires. The project also proposes to remove miles of legacy logging mitigating catastrophic landslide risk while restoring stream health and enhancing critical wildlife habitat.
The entire project advances national priorities including fighting climate change, augmenting fire resilience in forests, increasing carbon sequestration, while ensuring ecosystem services such as clean water. Redwood forests are the most productive carbon sinks on the planet and the investment in this project will assist in the overall fight against climate change.“Investments from the Inflation Reduction Act amplify the extraordinary work already being completed under the Redwoods Rising Collaborative to heal the unhealthy forests and historic road scars left from decades of large-scale forestry activities in two thirds of the park,” said Steve Mietz, superintendent of Redwood National and State Parks. “This funding will bolster the park’s existing efforts to create a sustainable restoration economy by providing good paying jobs to Tribal members and others in the local community. The visiting public for centuries to come will enjoy the rejuvenating power of the redwood forest this funding helped restore to its former glory.”
The projects announced today infuse much-needed funding to put people to work addressing critical ecosystem needs to restore healthy and resilient park lands while benefiting communities surrounding parks. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law and Inflation Reduction Act, the National Park Service is working to address the impacts of the climate crisis, including intensifying drought, wildfires, flooding and legacy pollution in national parks and other public lands. Resources are making significant strategic investments to repair critical facilities and infrastructure and enhance conservation through ecosystem restoration and recreation opportunities.
See Redwoods Rising – Redwood National and State Parks (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov) for more information.
The full lists of fiscal year 2023 projects are available online: IRA Restoration and Resilience projects and BIL Ecosystem Resilience projects.
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Inflation Reduction Act = A major cause of new inflation.
It’s all about ‘… good paying jobs’ to Tribal members’.
What about the other er… ‘folks’ in the National Park ravaged community of Orick ?
Prairie Creek, Redwood Creek 50 are now years untouched.
There is nothing wrong with them… leave ’em alone.
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Going to spend money ? Provide benefit to surrounding communities ?
Clear the brush from USFS roads and provide firebreaks.
In some cases the USFS major roads (ala firefighting) have brushed in to less than 1 lane roads.
Government does not appear to be interested in managing the forests.
Go figure.
Inflation reduction act is a scam. Prices have not gone down. They claim victory because the RATE has slowed, but the high prices are here to stay.
Misnomer
If you’ve followed the wind farm labor union negotiations on LCO you can see exactly how deep into the lives of ordinary people the Federal government reaches. Due to the dangling of grants with specific designations of “underserved communities” the Federal government had defined literally who is first in line for work that looks for funding with any Federal grants. Right now in our area it is tribal members.
Ya the union and harbor district really fucked tribes here locally. Fucked everyone locally actually
Thanks Joe for 5 dollar fuel! Go green! Crack me up. And the poor get poorer, fact.
An easy fix will be a vote for Trump.
I think DeSantis has a better chance at winning and would be a much more effective president.
Also would prefer a younger prez, both Biden and Trump are too old for a very demanding job.
Joe is not the cause of the $5 to $6 fuel in California.
The California Regional Air Resources Board is.
$1 for the Tax… and $1 for the restricted refinery production.
Produce a ‘special formula’ gas… good for er… ‘environmental health’… but nobody will say what that is.
They are non elected (governor appoints)… and the appointments are usually for a lifetime.
Go figure.
Huge tax breaks, government handouts to going green companies and zero tax breaks and zero incentives to fossil fuel production leads to high gas prices. Joe Biden has full control of gas prices, high fuel prices lead to high shipping prices, high cost of good prices follow. Thanks for making the poor ,poorer Joe, you the man. When Americans gonna wise up.
How can printing money and pissing it away, making existing money worth less, be called anything but inflation?
Meanwhile, we are one half billion short for road maintenance.
Another boy scout project that will have a negligible effect at taxpayer expense
2020 presidential election was a castrophic failure. Hopefully every American realizes this , if not your on the take. Cause us payers are tired of paying .
BVG (biden voter guilt) is a real thing and many are in denial. But also those who only voted against Trump, may see their error.
If you’ve been following the works that RNP has been doing on the coast, you know that the Park has sacrificed resilience, wildlife and wetlands in order to remove nonnative grasses. The results are atrocious and in direct opposition to our goals for aquatic function.
Very unfortunate to see the usual mob of Biden-haters clutter up the comment section about an investment in the local economy that will provide jobs and help to restore habitat.
They must have had a bad night or something.
I’m glad that these funds are coming this way and imagine that the people wo will be employed completing this work will be glad too.
Like a sawmill?
Reckon… $8 million… about 70% will be sucked up by the bureaucracy.
Bullshit all the biggest companies from around the country will swoop in with their employees and do the work
Even if every investment corporation has to create local shell companies to do it.
D’Tucker Jebs,
I don’t think that it is Biden that is upsetting people so much as the countries situation.
Maybe you could see the forest if that damn tree wasn’t in your way. Maybe the inflation reduction will take the tree out for you.
You wouldn’t have a forest to see w/o National Parks.
It takes money.
Not sorry you hate it.
I look at the forest all day, non of it being a national park.
You might be surprised to find out that the Timber companies made the most valued timber available to the Save The Redwwods League and California State Parks.
There will be work. Waving grants under people’s noses ensures that there will be people coming to feed off the trough. The real issue is 1) whether it is the best use of tax monies and 2) are grants being used as a carrot that hands the unwanted stick which was opposed to the Federal government when it would not be tolerated otherwise. The answer to the first is sometimes but not certainly. The answer to the second is yes. That is simply using our own money to let the Federal government use it to bribe us to do things we otherwise would not permit.
Government likes grant giving because it circumvented their own laws restricting their power and means they don’t have to account for it while giving them the choice of taking credit when they want it and passing the buck when they don’t.
You may think that this administration will get you want you want more than locals, who you apparently think are the problem with the world. But administrations change but dishonest techniques persist. What was given by one can be taken away by the next. Heck, it simply collapsing under its own bureaucracy. Always crooks are great at siphoning off unwatched pots of money and it’s difficult if not impossible to claw back. For all the constant blaming of Progressives, in everything they get their way, the very crooks they complain about get richer and more powerful. So they complain more which results in more wealth being siphoned. Progressives have an inherent flaw in their understanding of humanity. Poor or abused humans are no more honest or generous than rich ones. The only difference is the rich have more resources to satisfy their greed. And progressives ensure their ability to manage government who act as their enforcers.
Apparently your Shining City on the Hill is just within reach if the power to stop it is just taken away from people. But it never ever has worked like that. That always has lead to failure with much destruction in the process. There is only one way to gain permanent positive change and that is with consensus. The tool of consensus is compromise in which everyone gets some of what they want but no one gets everything they want. Then they are invested in it. If you persist in policy based only on personal hates and includes taking too much, you lose in the end.
Exactly.
Well put. Many Progressives seem to have fallen into a rotten, simplistic policy logic that “This is meant to help people, therefor anyone against this must be evil”
I mean, how could you vote against free pizza for the whole student body?
“IRA funding will be used to accelerate large-scale restoration in the Prairie Creek watershed, including forest thinning,…”
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Nothing screams, “large-scale restoration in the Prairie Creek watershed” , quite like “accelerated forest thinning”…?♂️
If Biden funds a shitload of trees getting felled in the forest, and some other total con artist calls it,”restoration”, is anybody listening????♂️