Mattole Restoration Council

06/06/2026

The MRC now holds a two-year planning grant from the California Strategic Growth Council for the development of a community resilience center! Please visit our website for more information.

05/11/2026

Join us on May 21st with Dawn Goley, professor of zoology and marine biology, to learn about recent North Coast marine mammal stranding data!

04/25/2026

Join us for a fun and productive volunteer day pulling invasive broom! This years Broom Bash will focus on pulling Scotch and French broom on newly acquired public land near downtown Petrolia! Cheers forever to Clarence’s legacy of getting outside and getting dirty in the name of native plant restoration! ✨💚✨

04/17/2026

Join us for our 3rd annual Scotch Broom Bash on Saturday, April 25th!

04/17/2026

The MRC is now soliciting proposals for the completion of a CEQA compliance process for the MRERC Project. Please the RFP/Opportunities page on website for more information.

04/10/2026

We are finally (kinda) catching our breath after a truly dynamic March! MRC hosted a spring training series for local fire department personnel and fire practitioners in collaboration with Briceland Fire and HumCo PBA. Over 100 people from all over the North Coast came together to share ideas, grow practical fire skills and gain Resource Advisor, S-112, FFT2, S-244 and S-290 certificates. We are proud to say the bulk of these training days were field based! Cheers to our local fire community (especially Jose and Andrea from the Watershed Center and Kyle Keegan) for thinking of creative ways to share knowledge in the field on land we all steward. And an extra big shout out to the weather gods who all conspired to host a burn day March 29 to put all we learned into true practice!

Funding for the Spring Workshop Series provided by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection’s Business and Workforce Development Grants and the California State Coastal Conservancy Fire Resilience Grants. Thank you!

03/28/2026

Understory timber burn planned for Sunday March 29!

03/28/2026

03/26/2026

Update: the prescribed burn this week has been postponed to Sunday, March 29th!

01/16/2026

These beautiful days are perfect for winter maintenance! With a cache of over 70 saws working on hundreds of acres it never ends… Our sawyers and swampers learn basic saw maintenance techniques and procedures for both on and off the grade.