Region Overview

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North State

The natural beauty of the North State is untamed, the region supplies most of California’s water, and the economy of the region continues to grow around the stewardship of these landscapes through restoration, recreation and resilience. Hope is a commodity across the region, and as wildfire persists in the region, the collaborative network of caring humans, organizations, and agencies share this hope across the region.

North State is the birthplace of . . .

Innovation

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Indian Valley Wood Utilization Campus

Indian Valley Wood Utilization Campus

Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative

Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative

California Resilient Careers in Forestry

California Resilient Careers in Forestry

Innovation

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Indian Valley Wood Utilization Campus
Indian Valley Wood Utilization Campus

The community of Crescent Mills in Plumas County celebrated the opening of a new sawmill operated by J&C Enterprises at a formerly abandoned sawmill site. The Wood Utilization Campus opened after years of efforts by the Sierra Institute to assess and cleanup the brownfield, in cooperation with the U.S. EPA and Plumas County. The site will consist of a variety of businesses that generate value-added products out of small-diameter trees and other woody biomass.

Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative
Plumas-Sierra Rural Electric Cooperative

Plumas-Sierra Telecommunications has found innovative ways to bring high-speed internet to the rural reaches of Plumas and Sierra Counties. In 2010, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act helped to fund the construction of a fiber system backbone. More recently, $9.6 million in California Advanced Services Fund (CASF) grants will help to expand fiber to bridge the digital divide to unserved and underserved areas of California.

California Resilient Careers in Forestry
California Resilient Careers in Forestry

The ΓÇ£California Resilient Careers in ForestryΓÇ¥ proposal by the Foundation for California Community Colleges was recently awarded $21.5M through the American Rescue Plan Good Jobs Challenge. The four-year project will coordinate and expand forestry & fire-safety training programs in the Sierra Nevada and Cascade regions of northeastern California. The program will help to address currently projected shortages of thousands of workers for well paying forestry and fire safety jobs.

Inspiration

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Dixie Fire Collaborative

Dixie Fire Collaborative - Pre-Approved House Plans

Connected Communities Trail Network

Connected Communities Trail Network

Northern ACEs

Northern ACEs Collaborative (NAC)

Inspiration

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Dixie Fire Collaborative
Dixie Fire Collaborative - Pre-Approved House Plans

The Dixie Fire Collaborative worked in partnership with the Plumas County planning authorities to create a pre-approved set of house plans that will help expedite the rebuilding process for those who lost homes in the Dixie Fire in 2021. Additional innovative housing initiatives include the production and manufacture of model homes made entirely of cross-laminated timbers. Groundbreaking on these innovative model homes has occured in Greenville, a community consumed and nearly entirely destroyed by the Dixie Fire.

Connected Communities Trail Network
Connected Communities Trail Network

The Connected Communities Project is a visionary effort led in partnership with the US Forest Service, Sierra Buttes Trail Stewardship, and community partners to connect 15 mountain towns for economic prosperity through outdoor recreation – an $887 billion industry. It will create a vision for a recreation-focused lifestyle through community investment, shared stewardship, economic opportunity, and important new local jobs, all benefiting economically disadvantaged communities in the North State region.

Northern ACEs
Northern ACEs Collaborative (NAC)

The Population Health Innovation Lab designs, catalyzes, and accelerates innovative approaches that advance health, well-being, and equity. Many Northern State Counties are disproportionately affected by high Adverse Child Experience (ACE) scores. PHIL, a program of the Public Health Institute, is combating this by forming a regional, multi-sector collaborative in the North State to address opportunities for systems change that mitigate trauma and domestic violence and support resilient, healthy communities.

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The 10-county North State region is forging strong partnerships and initiatives to ensure equity and inclusivity. We are bridging regional resources with economic needs and community benefits to improve social and environmental health.

North State Planning & Development Collective, Sierra Institute

Region By Numbers

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Explore these numbers and additional key North State demographic, economic, and business data on the Community & Place-Based Data Tool. Uncover other data tools, regional plans, and resources on the Data & Knowledge Library Page.

Population


609,798

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Total Households


239,602

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Total Establishments


20,414

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Educational Attainment


Associate
Degree
11%
Bachelor’s
Degree
16%
Graduate
Degree
7%

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Labor Force


256,481

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Regional Contacts

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Explore other federal, state, and regional contacts on our community connection page.

Jesus Salazar

CPBS Regional Economic Recovery Coordinator, GO-Biz


HRTC Contacts

The Community Economic Resilience Fund (CERF) will support an inclusive High Road Training Collaborative (HRTC) in this region, in charge of creating economic development recovery and transition strategies. To be a part of this region’s processes to advance economic prosperity and equity, contact the HRTC conveners.

North State Planning and Development Collective


Sierra Institute for Community and Environment


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