Give today and double your impact

Thanks to the generosity of the Schuman Family Foundation, your donation will be doubled! 100% of your gift goes directly to restoring fire-scarred landscapes, expanding fire prevention efforts, and protecting our communities. Join us!

Wildfires are a natural part of California’s landscape and ecology, but their increasing intensity threatens the ecosystems, communities, and green spaces we work tirelessly to protect. TreePeople’s Wildfire Resilience Fund is dedicated to proactive fire mitigation, ecological restoration, and long-term resilience efforts throughout thousands of acres in Southern California. By investing in this fund, you help to expand our critical fire prevention efforts, restore fire-scarred landscapes, and ensure our Southern California home is prepared to respond when disaster strikes. Your support will both bolster our ongoing work in burn scars and promote long-term sustainability, through proactive fire mitigation treatments, native plant restoration, and community-driven conservation efforts.

As the largest community-based organization conducting restoration and reforestation in Southern California, TreePeople is uniquely positioned to provide comprehensive recovery for fire-scarred areas. From cultivating native plants in our nursery to managing land directly, our unique model restores fire-scarred sites in a way that both promotes local biodiversity and makes our wilderness areas more fire-resilient for the future.

But we can’t do it without your help —together, we can safeguard our forests, mountains, and communities for generations to come.

What We Do (from planning to care)

How Restoration Helps

Fire Resilience

Fire has always been a part of our ecosystems. By restoring otherwise degraded areas, we are giving that land its best chance to recover in the event of fire. An area dominated by native plants will be more resilient than one dominated by invasives. We have a variety of different plant communities in Southern California, each with their own unique land management needs which can aid in their fire resilience.

Promote Biodiversity

Supporting native species preserves biodiversity, strengthens landscapes against invasive plants, and enhances habitats for wildlife–improving food sources, shelter, safe passageways, and mating opportunities.

Watershed Health

Forest restoration isn’t just about plants: we pay attention to the entire landscape, working to ensure water can be absorbed into the soil rather than lost as runoff. Then, forests help cool the region through evapotranspiration, a combined process that helps move water and heat from the land surface into the atmosphere. As water slows and permeates into the ground, it can help restore aquifers and waterways, providing stable water supplies for humans and the forest ecosystem while promoting climate resilience.

Brings Community Together

Beyond our volunteering events and educational programs in communities and wildlands across Southern California, TreePeople Land Trust’s 3,000+ acres of protected land and 13+ miles of accessible trails create spaces where people can connect with nature and participate in habitat restoration, fostering environmental stewardship and a deeper connection to nature.

Gifts to the Wildfire Resilience Fund support TreePeople’s efforts to restore fire-impacted landscapes and build long-term resilience across Southern California. 25% of funds will be allocated to TreePeople Land Trust, an affiliated 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to land conservation and wildfire recovery (EIN: 95-3677444).