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🌿 Grant Announcement: Wildfire Resilient Landscapes Receives Support from The Pollination Project
Wildfire Resilient Landscapes is honored to announce that we have been awarded a $500 seed grant from The Pollination Project (TPP) in support of our Urban Tree Renewal for Resilience (UTRR) initiative.
This award marks an important milestone for WRL. As our region faces increasing heat, drought, and wildfire risk, many Los Angeles communities are experiencing rapid loss of urban trees—particularly in low-canopy neighborhoods already burdened by climate and environmental inequities.
The UTRR project aims to address this gap by developing a replicable, publicly accessible model for:
- Replacing dead or removed street trees with native, fire-adapted species
- Restoring cooling shade and canopy cover
- Strengthening local biodiversity
- Supporting neighborhood resilience in wildfire-vulnerable areas
This seed grant allows WRL to take a meaningful first step in planning, mapping, and designing our pilot implementation. It represents not only crucial support but a powerful validation of the importance of community-rooted climate resilience work.
We extend our sincere gratitude to The Pollination Project for believing in this vision and for uplifting grassroots environmental projects across the world. WRL is proud to join the TPP community, and we look forward to sharing our progress as the UTRR project grows.
Together, we are planting resilience—one tree, one street, one community at a time.
— Deborah Hanson
Founder, Wildfire Resilient Landscapes
About Wildfire Resilient Landscapes
Our Mission
Wildfire Resilient Landscapes exists to promote resilient coexistence among people, wildlife, and the landscapes we share in an era of climate change and human-altered environments. We work across urban, rural, and transitional landscapes to restore ecological function, support native and climate-adapted systems, and reduce the impacts of wildfire, extreme heat, and environmental degradation.
Our approach recognizes wildfire not as an isolated event, but as part of a broader set of ecological and social challenges shaped by land use, climate pressures, and the intersections between human and natural systems. We center resilience as a long-term process that includes healthy soils, native and adaptive vegetation, functional wildlife habitat, and informed, engaged communities.
Through research, education, planning, and place-based projects, Wildfire Resilient Landscapes seeks to reconnect people to the land, support biodiversity, and foster landscapes that can adapt, recover, and coexist with both natural processes and human presence. Our work prioritizes communities and ecosystems most impacted by environmental change, and emphasizes stewardship, equity, and shared responsibility for the future of our landscapes.
Our Vision
Wildfire Resilient Landscapes envisions a future where people, wildlife, and ecosystems coexist within resilient landscapes that can adapt to wildfire, climate change, and human influence. We envision communities where urban and rural systems are designed with ecological awareness, where native and climate-adapted landscapes support biodiversity, public health, and long-term environmental stability.
Our vision recognizes the
The Anthropocene as a Defining Context for Conservation and Land Stewardship. In this future, land management decisions are informed by science, cultural knowledge, and lived experience, and resilience is measured not only by recovery from disturbance, but by the capacity of landscapes and communities to endure, evolve, and thrive together.
We envision landscapes that function as living systems rather than static spaces. Places where wildfire risk is reduced through thoughtful design and stewardship, where wildlife corridors and habitat are restored, and where people are empowered to understand their role within the ecosystems they inhabit. Through collaboration, education, and innovation, Wildfire Resilient Landscapes seeks to contribute to a more balanced, regenerative relationship between humans and the natural world.