Our Mission
THE WATERSHED RESEARCH AND TRAINING CENTER
We strive to create and sustain healthy lands and healthy communities. We work locally, statewide, and nationally to steward our natural resources and support community resilience. Through partnerships with community members, tribes, organizations, public agencies, and businesses, we care for our forests and rivers, create jobs, and connect people to the land and each other.
Our History
What started in the early 1990s as a local project to re-train displaced loggers and millworkers is now a vibrant nonprofit organization that serves our local community and leads statewide and national initiatives. Local stewardship jobs remain a core focus of our work and every year we employ Trinity County residents to conduct the full array of natural resource management services. Our programs and expertise have grown exponentially.
We’ve recognized that this model of local stewardship is powerful and impactful, and we’ve learned a great deal from over twenty years of successes and failures. Our statewide and national work is aimed at sharing what we’ve learned, building the capacity of other communities, and spreading the ethics of community-based land management across the country.
Our staff is at the center of the Watershed Research and Training Center’s work. From foresters to prescribed fire specialists, and grants administrators to youth program leads, we have an incredible team of people dedicated to carrying out the mission of connecting land and people.
The Watershed Research and Training Center’s local, statewide, and national programs have a far-reaching impact and an extensive track-record of serving landscapes and communities.
Our work is made possible in part by generous donations from those that believe in our mission. We are grateful for the support of the communities we serve on a local, statewide, and national scale.