SSCRA helps communities make best use of all local resources. This builds a strong position from which to access County, State and Federal government assistance and grant funds from many sources. This also sets the stage for creating effective partnerships with other neighboring communities.
We have worked with the Cobb Mountain community to create a comprehensive wildfire resilience and economic development strategy using the Seven Forms of Capital.
This tribal-centric, grassroots project pairs local landowners with indigenous experts and specialists in a multi-stage training + direct action program to restore Cobb watershed creekside properties.
A comprehensive guide for residents in developing and maintaining a “Wildfire Adapted Community” in a rural California county.
We’re a group of volunteers in the Loch Lomond Subdivisions addressing identified fire risks confronting the community and developing actions to mitigate those risks. The make-up of our organization is residents and other key partners such as South Lake Fire District, Cobb Area Firewise organizations, Lake County Fire Safe Councils, local forestry agencies and CalFire.
Giving the public access to a portable air curtain burner has long been a dream for three local partners: SSCRA, the Forest Stewardship Committee of the Cobb Area Council, and CALFIRE. Large-parcel owners are allowed to burn away large amounts of debris during the permitted season, but up until now small-parcel owners could only make do with costly mechanical means.
The seven community capitals represent all aspects of community life and can be invested and saved, or wasted and depleted. The objective of the present Strategy is to use the Community Capitals Framework to present an understandable economic development program, a fire recovery strategy and an overall approach to long term community resilience.
Natural and environmental resources
Physical structures and facilities, including housing and infrastructure
Groups and networks that help make things happen
The “economy”; resources available for development
Attributes that give people the ability to thrive and contribute
Values, norms, beliefs and traditions
Capacity to influence rules and standards; access to institutional resources
The seven community capitals represent all aspects of community life and can be invested and saved, or wasted and depleted. The objective of the SSCRA is to use the Community Capitals Framework to present an understandable economic development program, a fire recovery strategy and an overall approach to long term community resilience.