CFI/RFFI’s Mendocino/Humboldt County Forest Reciprocity Collective Woody Feedstock Pilot Project
Project Overview
Basics
CFI/RFFI’s Mendocino/Humboldt County Forest Reciprocity Collective Woody Feedstock Pilot Project
- Conserve, Enhance and Restore Watersheds and Ecosystems that Support Biological Diversity
- Ensure that Disadvantaged and Underrepresented Communities Benefit from Initiatives
- Prioritize Plans, Projects and Actions that Result in Long Term Sustainability of Jobs & Revenues
- Protect and Enhance Forest Based Carbon
- Respect Local Autonomy and Local Knowledge in NCRP Planning and Implementation
Woody Feedstock Aggregation Pilot
Planning/Design
RFFI has invited CFI to work with them to determine how best to use the aggregate material generated from their forest restoration projects. They can offer a temporary landing site where poles can be sorted and utilized for a variety of purposes. Determining best practices for leaving most of the biomass in the forest is key tenet to vision of forest reciprocity. We plan to establish a collaborative partnership and develop a business plan to implement a pilot project at Usal Redwood Forest, with RFFI. This project will include a mobile processing unit to aggregate woody biomass, with a focus on small diameter poles, for housing, outbuildings and furniture kits.
2023
2023
2024
1/5/2024
Project Attributes
General Information
Project Description Narrative (1,000 character limit)
We will develop a business plan utilizing a cooperative business model that could facilitate and broker woody biomass for landowners, forest stewardship projects, and biomass utilization businesses. We believe by keeping stakeholder capital investment low, the cooperative can stay nimble and best match the scale of both supply and demand in our region. Currently, FRG’s emphasis is on harvesting and distributing small-diameter poles, but this business plan will encompass a variety of forest practices and products. The development of this business plan will determine and foster the feasibility of a pole aggregation business that could take on one or more of the following roles:
-Promotion, incubation, and contracting of biomass utilization businesses;
-working and contracting with landowners and forest restoration projects for feedstock;
-developing a mobile processing unit to harvest and pre-process poles; and
-transport poles from the woods to aggregation yards and/or buyers.
Solutions
Capacity - Data and Planning, Fire Resilient Forests - Forest Biomass Residuals, Fire Resilient Forests - Fuel Management, Fire Resilient Forests - Timber Industry
Spatial Information
Tribal Region
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Project Size (Acres)
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Location
Organizations
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| Local and/or Political Support | John Haschak, Sherwood Valley Band of Pomo Indians, Polecraft Solutions LLC, Institute for Sustainable Forestry, Lost Coast Forest |
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Project Benefit Performance Measures
Expected Project Benefit Performance Measures
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| Capacity Enhancement - Type(s) of CE | Type: Planning | 1 |
| Environmental justice and social equity - # of projects | Activity focus: Capacity building | 1 count |
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures
Reported Project Benefit Performance Measures are not relevant for Projects in the Planning/Design stage.
Financials
Budget
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Reported Expenditures
No Expenditures have been reported for this Project.
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Project Types
Project Types
This project will collect data on the available feedstock of small-diameter poles in the two proposed Mendocino County woodbaskets and market analysis for small-diameter poles and products made from them.
This project includes a collaborative business design process, engaging local organizations, Tribes, private landowners, and small businesses to create a cooperative business plan.
This project will connect local organizations and Tribes, working towards a similar goal of increased forest health and a more robust local economy. By better coordinating our efforts through a collaborative framework we can improve all of our effectiveness.
This project will develop a cooperative business model that promotes local workforce development: in the forest, at aggregation yards, and trades like timber framing and furniture building.
This project, by creating a market for small diameter poles, will lead to more forest restoration on private lands by making a viable financial incentive. Funds from the sale of poles can feed directly back into forest restoration work.
This project aims to target woody biomass on a more selective scale, leaving more materials in the forest. Compared to biomass energy production, we will reduce GHG emissions from transportation and burning of biomass.
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CFI/RFFI’s Mendocino/Humboldt County Forest Reciprocity Collective Woody Feedstock Pilot Project
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Notes
| 08/15/2023 11:01 AM | Matilda Hernandez-Miyares | Certification of Authority, Organization Statement of Qualifications, Supplemental Solicitation Documents are all included in the project application PDF |
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