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Priority
Accelerate Nature-Based Climate Solutions and Strengthen Climate Resilience of Natural Systems
Progress Indicators
- Scoping: Scoping and organizing action; collecting input and conducting community engagement.
- Securing Funding: Securing funding; beginning project work.
- Underway: Work underway; documentation and reporting in progress.
- Nearing Completion: Work nearing completion.
- Complete: Work complete; shifting to ongoing maintenance, monitoring, evaluation and assessment.
- Ongoing Improvements: Ongoing advancements; continual improvements.
Actions
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Action 1 Identify opportunities for co-management of lands and marine resources and invite and incorporate tribal expertise, traditional ecological knowledges, and cultural practices in the tool set for understanding and responding to climate change.
Success Metric: Number of partnerships or collaborations with tribes where specific tribal input, including opportunities, decisions, and actions that incorporate co-management, tribal expertise, and traditional knowledge, is incorporated into the management of marine resources.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, State Lands Commission, Ocean Protection Council
For More Details: Department of Fish and Wildlife Tribal Communication and Consultation Policy; State Lands Commission Tribal Consultation, Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; Governor Newsom’s Statement of Administration Policy on Native American Ancestral Lands
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of partnerships or collaborations with tribes where specific tribal input, including opportunities, decisions, and actions that incorporate co-management, tribal expertise, and traditional knowledge, is incorporated into the management of state-owned lands.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: All applicable agencies
For More Details: Department of Fish and Wildlife Tribal Communication and Consultation Policy; State Lands Commission Tribal Consultation, Governor Newsom’s Statement of Administration Policy on Native American Ancestral Lands
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 2 Increase the pace and scale of wildfire resilience and forest health projects.
Success Metric: Scale up forest health treatments to 500,000 acres annually.
Timeframe: Complete by 2025
Agency: California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Department of Fish and Wildlife
For More Details: California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan; Department of Fish and Wildlife Watershed Restoration Grant Programs
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
Success Metric: Scale up state prescribed fire treatments up to 100,000 acres annually.
Timeframe: Complete by 2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
For More Details: California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
Success Metric: Fund robust wildfire resilience programs across landowner types including small landowners, state landowners, tribes, and federal land managers.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency
For More Details: California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
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Action 3 Reduce risks of wildfire through increased use of fuel breaks and fuels reduction.
Success Metric: Maintain a pipeline of roughly 500 projects in various stages of planning, implementation, and maintenance at any given time.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection
For More Details: California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Complete
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Action 4 Protect, restore, and create coastal wetlands.
Success Metric: Increase the acreage of coastal wetlands - 20% by 2030 and 50% by 2040.
Timeframe: 2030 and 2040
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Parks and Recreation, Ocean Protection Council, State Coastal Conservancy
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; Watershed Restoration Grant Programs, State Coastal Conservancy Strategic Plan; Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project Regional Strategy; San Francisco Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Project
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Develop a statewide coastal wetland inventory to monitor and track protection, restoration, and creation targets for increasing coastal wetlands.
Timeframe: 2022 (with anticipated future updates)
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Estimate total carbon sequestration associated with wetlands creation and restoration.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Parks and Recreation, Ocean Protection Council, State Coastal Conservancy
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; Watershed Restoration Grant Programs, State Coastal Conservancy Strategic Plan; Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project Regional Strategy; San Francisco Baylands Ecosystem Habitat Goals Project
Progress Indicator: Ongoing improvements
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Action 5 Increase green space and infrastructure across California’s communities and prioritize tribal nations and climate vulnerable communities.
Success Metric: Identify opportunities through the Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Natural Resources Agency - multiple
For More Details: Natural and Working Lands Climate Smart Strategy
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 6 Support planning and building capacity to implement climate smart agricultural practices by helping growers seeking to develop Agriculture Conservation Plans.
Success Metric: Number of conservation agriculture plans developed; Number of contacts (workshops and webinars) with Socially Disadvantaged Farmers and Ranchers to increase access to conservation planning process.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Conservation Agriculture Planning Grants Program
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
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Action 7 Test innovative, nature-based climate solutions.
Success Metric: Number of innovative, nature-based demonstration projects in State Parks, Wildlife Areas, and Ecological Reserves.
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Parks and Recreation, Ocean Protection Council, Coastal Commission, State Coastal Conservancy, Delta Conservancy
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Parks Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Strategy; Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning; Department of Fish and Wildlife Lands Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of nature-based climate adaptations that include monitoring as a project requirement.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Parks and Recreation, Ocean Protection Council, Coastal Commission, State Coastal Conservancy, Delta Conservancy
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan; State Parks Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Strategy; Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning; Department of Fish and Wildlife Lands Program
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Number of lease applications and projects that incorporate nature-based climate solutions.
Timeframe: 2021–2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency - State Lands Commission
For More Details: State Lands Commission 2021-2025 Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number of Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area, wetland, and marine resources mitigation strategies that deliver climate resilience benefits.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Coastal Commission
For More Details: Coastal Commission Coastal Management Program 309 Assessment and Strategy; 2021-2025 Coastal Commission Strategic Plan; Coastal Commission Sea-Level Rise Policy Guidance; Sea-Level Rise Working Group Joint Statement on Sea-Level Rise Adaptation Planning
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 8 Protect existing and create additional seagrass habitat.
Success Metric: Work with partners to preserve the existing, known 15,000 acres of seagrass beds and create an additional 1,000 acres.
Timeframe: 2025
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ocean Protection Council, State Coastal Conservancy, Coastal Commission
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 9 Protect and restore kelp forest ecosystems.
Success Metric: Development of a statewide kelp forest research and restoration plan, which shall include potential restoration and management approaches and research and monitoring recommendations.
Timeframe: 2021 and ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Ocean Protection Council, Coastal Commission
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
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Action 10 Assist federal government in scaling up forest treatments by supporting collaborative forest management and encouraging landscape level planning.
Success Metric: Double current forest treatment levels to 500,000 acres per year.
Timeframe: 2025
Agency: California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force | Natural Resources Agency – Sierra Nevada Conservancy
For More Details: California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan; Sierra Nevada Conservancy’s Watershed Improvement Program
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
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Action 11 Utilize existing market mechanisms and tools to accelerate nature-based climate solutions.
Success Metric: Incentivize the application of certified compost and other commercial organic amendments, whole orchard recycling, and the construction of facilities that allow the production of marketable compost and manure compost.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture | Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery
For More Details: Healthy Soils Program; Alternative Manure Management Program; Organics Grant Program; SB 1383 Jurisdiction Procurement of Recycled Organics Products; Organics Recycling Capacity Planning
Progress Indicator:Department of Food and Agriculture: Securing Funding
Progress Indicator:Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery: Underway
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Action 12 In the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta watershed, build climate resilience through restoration.
Success Metric: 60,000 to 80,000 acres of restored natural ecosystems.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Delta Stewardship Council, Delta Conservancy
For More Details: The Delta Plan; California EcoRestore; Delta Carbon Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Additional acres of projects that reverse subsidence and sequester carbon.
Timeframe: Ongoing, with a goal of restoring 30,000 acres by 2030
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Delta Conservancy, Delta Stewardship Council
For More Details: The Delta Plan; California EcoRestore; Delta Carbon Program
Progress Indicator: Underway