With the growing fire risk, Governor Newsom announces the state of emergency in order to quickly oblige critical forest fire prevention projects nationwide

Sacramento after devastating the fire storm of Los Angeles and the risk that a wild forest fire was increased nationwide, governor Gavin Newsom today proclaimed a state of emergency to protect critical projects that protect the municipalities from forest fire from the top fire season.

Today's emergency termination will reduce bureaucratic bureaucracy – including the inclusion of CEQA and the Coastal Act – that slow down critical forest management projects. The text of the proclamation is available here.

“This year has already seen some of the most destructive forest fires in the history of California, and we are only in March. Building on unprecedented work that cuts bureaucracy and does historical investments-with an emergency, take measures to get critical wildfire projects even more.

These are the projects for forest management that we need to protect our communities for a forest fire most susceptible and we will do them. “

Governor Gavin Newsom

This campaign builds on years of work to increase forest management and the resistance of the forest fire in the state. This is also followed by the governor's executive regulation signed last month to improve the strategies for hardening the community and the reduction in order to increase resilience according to the neighborhood nationwide.

How it works

Today's proclamation includes:

• Suspending environmental regulations, including CEQA and the Coastal Act, as required to accelerate fuel reverberation projects. The projects include vegetation and removal, adding fuel interruptions, prescribed fire and much more.
• Non -state companies to carry out approved fuels with an accelerated and optimized approval.
• Directed by state agencies, recommendations to increase the pace and the scale of the prescribed fire.
• Increasing the efficiency and use of the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CALVTP) in order to continue to promote a quick environmental check for major treatments for reducing forest fires.

Governor Newsom took similar measures in March 2019 to accelerate the projects for forest management from the particularly challenging fire times in 2019 and 2020.

More forest management and prescribed burns than ever before

• Prevent forest fires from forest and land management. The state invests 2.5 billion US dollars to improve and implement the governor's forest fire and forest resilience plan, which increases the pace of fuel reduction, the prescribed fire and forest health. 100% of the 99 important actions described in the plan are underway or completed. This applies in addition to $ 200 million, which were invested annually for healthy forest and fire protection programs by 2028-29.
• Use controlled burns to build community and forest resilience. California started a strategic plan for useful fire to expand the use of prescribed fire and cultural burns in order to build forest and community strength. The most important goals from the plan are already in action to increase the use of prescribed fires, and the prescribed fire activity has almost doubled between 2021 and 2023.
• Persecution of forest fire prevention. California recently launched newly updated, first -class dashboards that will help the Californian to pursue the state's forest fire prevention work.
• Early action. One of the very first executives that Governor Newsom had taken after the assumption of the office was to explain an emergency to be explained in 2019 in response to forest fires. This arrangement frees critical projects for forest fires and forest management from California environmental law (CEQA).