Building Resilience in the Capital Region (March 2025)

Valley Vision’s two collaboratives, Cleaner Air Partnership and Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative, hosted a regional workshop at the California Endowment Center where speakers from Yuba Water Agency, Sutter Roseville Medical Center, and Coldwell Banker shared the economic, public health, and environmental impacts of wildfires. With over 80 participants from the public and private sector, this event was a perfect opportunity to discuss how the region can establish cross-sector wildfire resilience through innovative partnerships and collaboration.

Resources including the presentation slides are listed below:

• Yuba Water Agency: Watershed Resilience and Forest Health
• U.S. Chamber of Commerce The Preparedness Payoff: Sacramento
• Report: Wildfire smoke impacts respiratory health more than fine particles from other sources: observational evidence from Southern California

Many thanks to the presenters:

• JoAnna Lessard, PhD Yuba Water Agency
• Dr. Vanessa Walker, Sutter Roseville Medical Center
• Erin Stumpf, Coldwell Banker

This event was hosted in collaboration with the Cleaner Air Partnership and the Capital Region Climate Readiness Collaborative.