Since 1992, we’ve worked to complement the mission of the US Forest Service. We develop new resources and partnerships that create new opportunities, particularly through the efforts of volunteers, for conservation, education, and recreation that have added value to the forest’s role as public land.
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Our Forest Care program is a $4 million outreach effort to increase fire-resistance around homes and businesses while thinning the forest to healthy densities. Through Forest Care, property owners are reimbursed for up to 75% of the cost. |
Big Bear Discovery Center connects the forest and people through its visitor center facilities and activities. Get your permits, passes, maps, interpretive tours and programs, not to mention your Adventure Outpost and View Café shopping experience, here.
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Children’s Forest is forest discovery for and by kids. Children’s Forest Youth Hosts and Youth Naturalists are almost as astonishing as the forest mysteries they reveal. |
Fire Lookouts carry on a 75-year tradition of service to the forest by restoring and staffing seven lookouts during the summer with volunteer interpreters and educators. |
Fire Education Outreach promotes understanding of fire and its role in the forest ecology— from forest renewal to a virtual experience of the ferocity of a real forest fire. The program offers traveling exhibits for display at public events including the Wildfire Education trailer and an original 1924 Model T Forest Patrol vehicle. These volunteers also assist during major wildfire incidents in and around the Forest by answering fire information phone lines and interpreting at the air tanker base, among other emergency related tasks. |
Our Off Highway Vehicle (OHV) Programs promotes safety, stewardship, and responsible off-highway travel on public lands. |
Outdoor Adventures is your resource to links for information about hiking and biking trails and picnic and camping facilities. |
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Seedlings of Hope in 2003, wildfireravaged over 92,000 acres of the San Bernardino National Forest. Literaly thousands of trees and shrubs need to be planted to help heal this fragile ecosystem. Through the Seedlings of Hope Program, Pine, Oak and native shrubs will be planted in the National Forest. We need your help! |
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