Our Mission
The Watershed Research and Training Center (WRTC), a community- based nonprofit organization, was started in 1993 to promote healthy communities and sustainable forests through research, education, training, and economic development. This work centers around the belief that the relationship between local communities and the public forest must change so that the economy can rebuild itself based on an ethic of land stewardship. The following program activities reflect this attempt to develop and encourage sustainable forest-based activities and a vibrant economic system for Hayfork and all of Trinity County.