Rincon Consultants, Inc. supports practitioners by providing the best available knowledge and collaborating with innovative partners to make California safer while improving the health of California’s forests, shrublands, and grasslands. With 28years of environmental planning and research expertise, Rincon has been privy to the history and evolution of environmental risk mitigation throughout the state, including land use ordinance, code adoption, community wildfire protection planning, advances in fuel reduction techniques,and permit streamlining.We understand this is a pivotal time to integrate wildfire resilience planning into future developments and to be proactive in communities that have been spared the worst of the destruction that wildfire can bring. We embody the notion that developing protections for built infrastructure can integrate ecologically restorative practices and will strive to utilize nature–based solutions in all our wildfire planning efforts.