The Watershed Research and Training Center employs a full range of natural resource management professionals that can help you reach your goals. From planning and compliance, to implementation and monitoring, our staff can help you every step of the way.
Our reliable, professional crews are available at reasonable rates and we often have grant funding that can offset or reduce the cost of work if you reside within specific project areas.
Our Foresters and Forestry Technicians can help you reach your land management goals. Services include:
-Stand Exams
-Forest Inventory
-Timber Cruising and Marking
-Timber Harvest Plans
-California Environmental Quality Act Compliance
Our well-trained crew of insured local sawyers and equipment operators can help you implement a wide range of land management practices, including:
-Hazardous fuels reduction and defensible space around homes
-Brush cutting, piling, and burning
-Pre-commercial thinning for timber production
-Mechanical Mastication
The countywide Community Chipping Program is a grant funded collaboration between Trinity County Resource Conservation District and WRTC. Our fuels crews provide a free chipping service to landowners south of Hayfork Summit who prepare piles of brush for safe disposal, while the TCRCD serves communities to the north. To learn more and sign up, visit firesafetrinity.org or call the WRTC Hayfork Office at 530-628-4206.
WRTC works with organizations like the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) to identify rural landowners with large parcels who want to steward their forested lands. Programs like EQIP help forest landowners integrate conservation into working lands - WRTC provides certified foresters and matches Trinity County landowners with opportunities like this.
