… Together, CAL FIRE, the SNC, and the US Forest Service committed $10 million, meeting nearly half of the estimated $23 million needed to complete shovel-ready, wildfire-resilience projects in the Crystal Basin over the next 5-10 years. Those funds support a strategic portfolio of fuel reduction and recreation infrastructure improvements in the Crystal Basin, a scenic island of green forest and mountain lakes in the Eldorado National Forest that is surrounded by large, high-severity burn areas created by the 2014 King Fire and 2021 Caldor Fire. As a result of this catalyst funding, HELP is already seeing early, unanticipated successes.