Welcome
The mission of the WRTC is to promote a healthy forest and a healthy community. Since 1995 the WRTC has been working to revitalize the economy of Hayfork, CA, a small town in the middle of the Shasta-Trinity National Forest. Prior to 1996, Hayfork’s economy was driven by timbering and the USFS jobs that accompanied that industry. The turmoil and transition of adopting the NW Forest Plan changed the way our local federal lands were managed, contributing to the loss of 40% of Hayfork’s payroll. The WRTC was formed in order to rebuild our economy based on an ethic of land stewardship and restoration. To those ends, we’ve re-trained woods workers, built local contracting capacity, engaged in fuels reduction in the WUI, led local collaborative efforts, and are working with partners to develop and implement landscape-scale restoration strategies across the Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion.
For over ten years we focused our efforts on restoring the Trinity Forest while developing local wood products enterprises as a means to create local jobs and instill stewardship values in our community. More recently, we’ve broadened our focus to include fisheries and watershed restoration. We are investigating how ecological and social needs can be met in the context of watershed management.
