The Authority is leading a coalition of partners in planning and implementing projects to restore and enhance disaster resilience to Upper Mokelumne forests. The large Upper Mokelumne landscape, recently suffering or threatened by multiple catastrophic wildfires (Caldor, Butte, Power, et al) is the high value target for principal coalition partners Eldorado NF, Stanislaus NF, Amador Calaveras Consensus Group, Sierra Nevada Conservancy and Cal Fire. Beginning early 2022 the coalition began aggressively pursuing the two-phased Mokelumne Amador Calaveras (MAC) Forest Health and Resilience Project (formerly The Forest Projects Plan) initiative. The Phase 1 plan, completed in January 2023, prescribes treatments to about 26,000 priority acres. Phase 2, initiated in December 2022, will develop a comprehensive plan and the associated environmental clearances for treatments and related forest health actions for another 225,000 acres. Phase 1 implementation began in 2023 and as of August 2024 UMRWA has awarded contracts to five contractors to perform mechanical and/or hand treatments to more than 7,000 acres. Funding for UMRWA's MAC Forest Project has been provided by grants from Sierra Nevada Conservancy, Cal Fire, and the CA Wildlife Conservation Board. A $4 million Forest Resilience Bond (FRB) underwritten by Blue Forest Conservation further supports UMRWA's MAC Forest Project.