In 2018 Harbin won a $469,000 CalFire Healthy Forest Grant to support biomass cleanup and carbon sequestration, and to positively impact the Harbin Creek watershed. This Grant recognized both our excellent environmental progress since the fire, and the significant financial support of from many contributions to Harbin’s Reforestation Campaign which enabled us to research and successfully apply for the extraordinary Grant.

The generosity and love from Harbin’s guests truly brought trees back to Harbin. Our gratitude overflows as these trees continue to grow and thrive. While some reforesting wasn’t as successful as we had hoped, we will continue to work on reforesting in the years to come.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) operates 14 Demonstration State Forests totaling 85,135 acres. These forests represent the most common forest types in California and serve as a living laboratory for how to care for California’s timberlands for multiple benefits—recreation, watershed protection, wood products and sustainable timber production, and habitat restoration—given a changing climate and increasingly severe and intense wildfire seasons. The forests provide unique research and demonstration opportunities where environmental scientists, foresters, and other researchers can study the effects of various forest management and restoration techniques to help inform management practices for government, nonprofit and private forestland owners. https://www.fire.ca.gov/what-we-do/natural-resource management/demonstration-state-forests