Forest Futures Salon Series
The Forest Futures Salon Series brings together unlike-minded people to engage in productive, timely conversations to fuel innovation. What was previously a closed-door, intimate discussion between experts, has now become virtual, opening the door for professionals from all over the world to participate. On October 8, we will be getting perspectives from Foundations and Impact Investors on Innovative Conservation Finance Models to Speed Forest Restoration.
The estimated cost of restoration efforts in the State of California is likely to exceed $1 billion annually for the next 10 years. Neither the public authorities nor the private landowners have the budget capacity to implement this solution on their own and at the scale required. What’s more, the USFS increasingly finds itself fighting today’s fires with the funds designed to prevent tomorrow’s – using the vast majority of its capital to fight fires rather than prevent them. This panel includes some of the most effective financial minds focused on forests today — and will explore some of the innovative methods to deploy philanthropic dollars and impact investment capital to speed and scale landscape restoration.
