On Tuesday Jan. 19, 2010, the Humboldt County Board of Supervisors approved a $16,000 Headwaters Fund grant to the Mattole Restoration Council to pay for a study that will look at how forest land owners can capitalize on forest-based businesses; such as light touch logging, medium scale milling, fuel wood production, wood-to-energy projects, and the sale of carbon credits into the emerging climate change mitigation market.

At the meeting, Wild & Working Lands program director Seth Zuckerman described how the market study proposal would dovetail with the MRC's permit streamlining program for light-touch forestry (PTEIR Program Timberland Environmental Impact Report).

Excerpts of Seth's presentation were featured on the KMUD radio news on Wednesday Jan. 20, 2010. You can click on the link below to hear the KMUD report, or read the North Coast Journal article about this round of grants from the Headwaters Fund.

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Seth's KMUD interview Jan. 20, 2010	2.56 MB