Michael Maguire

Michael is a Senior Planner for Wildfire Resilience & Disaster Recovery at the Governor’s Office of Land Use and Climate Innovation, formerly OPR. Michael manages the office’s Wildfire Resilience and Disaster Response portfolio and administers the Forest Sector Market Development Grant Program. In this role, he is responsible for updating the state’s wildfire resilience planning guidance, as well implementing the state’s Forest Sector Market Development initiative as directed under Key Action 3.10 of the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan. Previously, Michael managed the Wildfire Resilience and Recovery Planning Grant Program, as well as the Biochar Research Advisory Committee as part of the office’s larger wildfire prevention, biomass utilization and forest management portfolio. Michael currently serves as an Advisory Council member at the Joint Institute for Wood Products Innovation at the California Board of Forestry, as well as OPR’s representative on the Wildfire Mitigation Advisory Committee (WMAC) at the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. Under the WMAC, Michael serves as the chair of the Land Use Planning and Housing Density Working Group. Michael also serves on several other working groups under the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force, such as the Risk Modeling Working Group, The Fire Adapted Communities Working Group, and the Wood Utilization Working Group. Michael has a B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz and an M.S. in Environmental Policy and Management from the University of California, Davis.