About
The Healthy Eldorado Partnership (HELP) grew out of a need to support the Eldorado National Forest achieve the goals of its Forest Resilience Strategy and to accelerate the pace and scale of projects to restore healthy forests across the Eldorado landscape. HELP’s ever growing roster of partners are pioneering collaborative approaches to funding and implementing landscape-scale restoration to reduce the risks of catastrophic wildfire, bring degraded streams and meadows back to life, and restore fire damaged landscapes.
The partnership works across the Eldorado National Forest on public and private lands in the American, Cosumnes, and Mokelumne River watersheds. In recent years, partners have collaborated to win and allocate many large grants. They are leveraging this success to develop a conservation finance strategy that will enable state and federal funders to invest in a portfolio of projects while attracting other private and public investments to expand healthy forest funding. Pioneering this Watershed Outcomes Bank strategy will be HELP’s next step toward the transformational changes needed to build an ecologically and economically resilient landscape through ecologically sound forest and watershed management.
Check out this video on Restoring Landscape Resilience in Crystal Basin
