Strategic Plan

The strategic plan for the community forest was recently updated through 2028. The steering committee’s vision is to maintain a healthy, resilient, and productive forest that emphasizes: collaborative decision making; responsible forest management including high visual quality and fire hazard reduction; consistent education, demonstration, and engagement opportunities; and accessible community and cultural use.

Objective 1: Collaborative decision making

• Manage the WCF with emphasis on community interests.
• Sustain the Steering Committee indefinitely.
• Ensure effective and efficient communication for collaborative interagency management.

Objective 2: Responsible forest management

• Resilience to wildfire, drought, insects and diseases
• High aesthetic quality
• Intact Soils
• Sustainable water yield and fish habitat
• Long-term sustained forest products yield
• Diverse native understory
• Native wildlife habitat

Objective 3: Consistent education, demonstration, and engagement opportunities

• Maintain and increase community interest and engagement with the WCF and its management.
• Educate people of all ages about local ecosystems and their management. 
• Encourage youth to seek careers in land or resource management and enrich the local economy.
• Assist forest landowners and managers with sustainable forest management.

Objective 4: Accessible community and cultural use

• Accommodate the wide array of local cultures and lifestyles by providing access to forest-based experiences and special forest products.

Improve local tourism and residents’ quality of life by maintaining, improving accessibility of, and otherwise enhancing trails and campgrounds.