Streamlining Wildfire Risk Reduction in California: CalVTP and the Governor’s 2025 Emergency Proclamation

As California continues to face increasingly destructive wildfires, the need for rapid and effective vegetation management in high fire hazard areas has never been more urgent. To meet this challenge, the state introduced two streamlined environmental review programs designed to accelerate wildfire risk reduction projects: the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) and Governor Newsom’s March 1, 2025 State of Emergency Proclamation (SOE).