SACRAMENTO – Governor Newsom announced today unprecedented results in preventing catastrophic wildfires and protecting communities. Following his March 2025 emergency proclamation to mitigate catastrophic wildfire risks, state agencies fast-tracked more than 400 projects across nearly 100,000 acres. At the same time, the state has advanced prescribed and cultural burning through coordinated action, streamlined processes, and expanded partnerships. And the Governor’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force today released a draft five-year action plan to guide California’s next phase of work protecting communities and restoring landscapes. Following Governor Newsom’s emergency proclamation on wildfire-prone forests and subsequent actions to accelerate wildfire resilience work, California fast-tracked more than 400 priority wildfire prevention projects, including over 220,000 activity acres of treatments across nearly 100,000 footprint acres. …Today, the Governor’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force released its draft Wildfire and Landscape Resilience Action Plan (2026-2031), a plan to accelerate action to confront California’s wildfire challenges.