Restoring fire-damaged forests and reducing wildfire risk
A nonprofit restoration partner to public land managers and the communities they protect.
ACRE, a division of the International Conservation Foundation, is a California 501(c)(3) that plans, directs and monitors reforestation, fuels reduction and ecosystem restoration on public and private land. We work alongside land managers to protect lives, the environment and property, and to create healthy, resilient forests.
Planning grounded in the field
We begin with early risk assessment across technical, environmental, operational, regulatory, and financial factors to inform realistic scopes, schedules, and budgets. Our foresters and natural resource specialists walk every unit with agency staff before work begins.
Restoration from seed to monitoring
We collect local native seed, prepare sites, plant, release young trees and oaks, and monitor results, sharing data with our agency partners so each season's work improves on the last.
- About ACRE
ACRE is a nonprofit restoration organization specializing in reforestation, fuels reduction and ecosystem restoration. Learn how we work alongside land managers.
- FAQs
Find answers about our restoration work, land-management partnerships, monitoring and funding.
- Projects
Learn how ACRE plans, carries out and monitors restoration work with land managers.
- Contact
Have a restoration partnership in mind? Contact ACRE to discuss planning and next steps.
How We Work With Land Managers
We plan the work together, review it together and adjust it together. We plan and review work with agency staff every week and every quarter, adjust prescriptions based on monitoring, and hold field tours at milestones.
Annual meetings and shared monitoring data help both partners learn what works.
Adaptive Project Management
ACRE uses an adaptive project management approach inspired by the Incident Command System (ICS), allowing operations to expand or contract based on project needs.
This structure improves response times, strengthens communication with governmental agencies and project partners, and reduces cost and timeline risk while staying aligned with project objectives.
