Committees
Join the Siskiyou County Resource Advisory Committee
The Klamath National Forest needs members to serve on the Siskiyou County Resource Advisory Committee. This local advisory committee recommends projects for funding to federal land managers to benefit resources on public lands.
The 15-member committee represents a cross section of county communities, industries, schools, environmentalists and local government. Members solicit, review and recommend projects that meet the following objectives:
- improve maintenance of existing infrastructure,
- implement stewardship objectives that enhance forest ecosystems,
- restore and improve land health and water quality, and
- create additional employment opportunities.
More information
- Funding for RACs is authorized through the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000, reauthorized by Congress in H.R.1865 - Further Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2020.
- Prospective RAC committee members must reside within California, and to the extent practicable, provide local representation.
- Each committee consists of 15 members with a wide range of interests. Three additional members are also appointed as replacements should a committee member leave for any reason. RAC membership must represent the following interests (five members from each category):
| Category A (3 to 5 members) | Category B (3 to 5 members) | Category C (3 to 5 members) |
| Organized labor or non-timber forest product harvester groups | Nationally recognized environmental organizations | Hold state elected office or their designee |
| Developed outdoor recreation, off-highway vehicle users, or commercial recreation activities | Regionally or locally recognized environmental organizations | Hold county or local elected office |
| Energy and mineral development interests; or commercial or recreational fishing interests | Dispersed recreational activities | American Indian tribes within or adjacent to committee area |
| Commercial timber industry | Archaeological and historical interests | School officials or teachers |
| Hold federal grazing or other land use permits, or represent non-industrial private forest landowners, within the area for which the committee is organized | Nationally or regionally recognized wild horse and burro interest groups, wildlife or hunting organizations, or watershed associations | Represent the affected public at large |
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Under Title II of the Act, the Secretary of Agriculture may establish a Secure Rural Schools resource advisory committee for part of a national forest or for one or more national forests to ensure each national forest on which special projects are proposed has access to a this type of committee.
These committees were first established under the “Secure Rural School and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-393).
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Each county in an eligible state must elect to receive one of these payments:
- a share of the state’s 25-percent payment OR
- a share of the “State payment.”
25-percent - Since 2008, the 25-percent payment is based on a 7-year rolling average of national forest receipts, distributed among the county's national forest, in proportion to acreage of national forest in the affected counties.
- 25-percent payments must be used for public schools and roads in accordance with 16 U.S.C. 500.
- Under 16 U.S.C. 500, the state has broad discretion how to allocate the payment for public schools and roads, including authorizing the county to make the allocation.
State payment - The county share of the Secure Rural Schools Act State payment is allocated using guidelines below for public schools and roads (commonly called Title I funds), Title II special projects on national forests, and Title III county funds for fire-wise communities activities — to reimburse counties for emergency services on the national forests and for development of community wildfire protection plans.
Title II funds may be used for protection, restoration and enhancement of fish and wildlife habitat and other resource objectives consistent with the Act on federal land and on non-federal land where projects would benefit the resources on federal land.
The purposes of the Act include making additional investments in, and creating employment opportunities through title II funded projects that:
- improve the maintenance of existing infrastructure;
- implement stewardship objectives that enhance forest ecosystems; and
- restore and improve land health and water quality.
The funds may be used for projects that enjoy broad based support and have objectives that may include--
- road, trail, and infrastructure maintenance or obliteration;
- soil productivity improvement;
- improvements in forest ecosystem health;
- watershed restoration and maintenance;
- the restoration, maintenance, and improvement of wildlife and fish habitat;
- the control of noxious and exotic weeds; and the re-establishment of native species.
Planning and implementing the projects should help improve cooperative relationships among the people that use and care for Federal land and the agencies that manage the Federal land.
Meetings and Agendas
Next meetings:
- TBD
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- Or call in (audio only) - Dial 1-202-650-0123, when prompted for Conference ID, enter 785 737 242#
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