CLOUD FOREST INSTITUTE
EIN 77-0480093 · Natural Resources Conservation & Protection (C30)
What they do
During 2025 The Forest Reciprocity Group (FRG) Developed A Nonprofit Business Plan to Build A FRG Pole Aggregation Depot (FRG PAD) to Educate About Processing Small Diameter Douglas Fir Poles Taken From Forest Restoration Projects. FRG is A Replicable Organizational Model Advocating for Firesafe Landscapes and Firesafe Buildings Through Reducing Forest Fire-fuel Loads and Utilizing The Materials From Those Efforts to Build Low-carbon Embodied Buildings. FRG Aims to Collaborate With Forest Health Crews to Restore Forests to Fire Resilient Ecosystems, Thin Small Diameter Trees to Reduce Catastrophic Fire Fuel Loads, Increase Long-range Carbon Sequestration, and Utilize and Sell Small Poles and Small-pole Milled Lumber From Forest Restoration to Build Fire-safe Housing. The Populations Who Benefit Are Tribal, Rural and Low Income In Need of Locally Sourced Material to Build Fire-resilient Homes. A Sub-population Within These Communities Who Will Benefit From Our Work Are The Underemployed
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About this charity
- Recognized since
- January 2000
- Location
- PO BOX 73, BOONVILLE, CA 95415-0073
- County
- Mendocino
- In care of
- % JENNY BURNSTAD