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The Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee, made up of representatives of diverse interests, provides direction for the Forest Stewardship Program. 


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The California Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee is an advisory body for the California Stewardship Program, which is administered by the California Department of Forestry & Fire Protection through the Forest Legacy Program. The committee meets quarterly to learn about forestry issues throughout the state and to make recommendations.
The Forestry and Fuel Management Committee of the California Association of Resource Conservation Districts (CARCD) has taken on the responsibility of the State Forest Stewardship Coordinating Committee. This committee has been active in forest stewardship issues, such as pre-fire fuels management and forest healthy, and represents such diverse interests as the Forest Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service, and UC Cooperative Extension; consulting foresters; forest products industry; forest landowners, land trusts, conservation and environmental organizations; and local government.
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Forests Have an Important Role in Climate Solutions
To understand how forests fit in to the whole issue of climate change we have to step back and look at the global picture. The details may be complicated, but the basic story is easy to comprehend.

The big picture
Our earth is blanketed by a relatively thin atmosphere that contains a number of gases that are vital and necessary to our well-being. Many of these gases trap heat from the sun, creating a greenhouse effect that keeps the earth at a livable temperature. Too much of these insulating gases, however, can trap excess heat, resulting in changes to the earth’s temperature. 
There is not much leeway. Even a very small change in average temperature can cause far-reaching disruptions in the life cycles of plants and animals. 
Carbon, in the form of carbon dioxide (CO2), is one of the major greenhouse gases and the main culprit in global climate change.

Follow the carbon
To understand the problem and its possible solutions we have to follow the carbon. Looking at the world through a carbon lens provides an entirely new perspective on forests. 
Carbon moves through the land, atmosphere, and ocean in a complex cycle.
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California State Parks continues to address interpretive programs and exhibits in California’s State Park System that fall short of fully contextualizing the state’s history. The department is working with Native American Tribal Nations, community partners, universities, and the public to ensure that educational programs and exhibits support public educational standards and are grounded in contemporary research methodology.
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The Human-Wildlife Conflicts Program provides technical assistance and support to staff, interested parties, the diverse public, and local communities.

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CAL FIRE is responsible for the protection of resources over a large portion of the state. Cultural heritage resources, which include places where past events occurred and where material traces of these events can be found, are especially vulnerable.  Such traces include archaeological, historical and tribal cultural sites, structures, objects, features, places, cultural landscapes, sacred places and artifacts. Unlike renewable resources such as trees or wildlife, heritage resources are irreplaceable, and when damaged or destroyed, are lost forever. The purpose of the CAL FIRE Cultural Resources Management Program is to identify and manage archaeological, historical, and tribal cultural resources located within project areas under CAL FIRE jurisdiction and to develop methods to protect these resources from project-related impacts. This is accomplished through regulations, policies and procedures requiring cultural resource surveys of project areas, evaluation of potential impacts, and the incorporation of protection measures before project approval. This program provides cultural resource surveys, technical assistance, project review, and training to CAL FIRE staff and other resource professionals. The legal mandates that require CAL FIRE to protect archaeological, historical and tribal cultural resources are found in the California Environmental Quality Act, the Forest Practice Rules, California Executive Order W-26-92, and the California Register of Historic Resources. 


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July 17, 2023: Air Quality Health Advisory Issued for Adirondacks, Central New York, Eastern Lake Ontario, and Upper Hudson Valley Regions of New York State
July 16, 2023: Governor Hochul Cautions New Yorkers as Air Quality Health Advisories Issued for Monday Across the Entire State
July 13, 2023: Air Quality Health Advisory Issued for New York City Metro and Lower Hudson Valley Regions In Effect for Thursday, July 13, 2023
July 5, 2023: Air Quality Health Advisory Issued for New York City Metro and Long Island Regions In Effect for Wednesday, July 5, 2023
July 3, 2023: Statement from Governor Kathy Hochul on Statewide Air Quality Conditions for July 4th Holiday
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July 1, 2023: Updated: Air Quality Health Advisory Issued for New York City Metro and Long Island Regions for Ozone In Effect for Saturday, July 1, 2023
Tracking Canada’s Extreme 2023 Fire Season
These megafires were also unusually widespread this season, charring forests from British Columbia and Alberta in the west to Quebec and the Atlantic provinces in the east to the Northwest Territories and the Yukon in the north.
As the fires raged, NASA scientists tracked them with a new system—the Fire Events Data Suite (FEDS). The system draws upon NOAA and NASA satellite data to provide more frequent monitoring of fire activity, growth, and behavior than has been available in the past. The system, pioneered by researchers at the University of California, Irvine, and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, draws on data from sensors aboard the Suomi NPP and the NOAA-20 satellites called VIIRS (Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite).
VIIRS identifies active fires during the day and night by detecting their thermal infrared energy. The sensor is carried by multiple satellites—each capable of observing the entire planet every 12 hours—allowing the FEDS system to quickly absorb new information about the location and intensity of fires. The system can then generate maps of individual fires’ perimeters, revealing how a fire changes over time and the total area it has burned.
Many of Canada’s fires in 2023, ignited by summer lightning storms, burned for months in remote areas. The animation above shows the largest Canadian fire in the FEDS database for 2023 as of September 19, 2023—a fire that had charred 1,224,938 hectares (4,730 square miles) in Quebec near the La Grande Reservoir 3. The fire stopped spreading in late July, around the time of the last frame shown in the animation. The expanding dark gray areas show the perimeters’ growth in 12-hour increments since June 1.
The second-largest fire as of September 19, 2023 (below), raged throughout much of June and July near Fort Nelson, where the borders of British Columbia, the Northwest Territories, and Alberta intersect. It stopped spreading for a time in August after charring 802,575 hectares as of September. Late in September and October, winds reinvigorated the fire and it grew rapidly to become the largest fire of the year. The other three largest fires in the database as of September 19 (visible below), charred parts of Northwest Territories, Alberta, and Saskatchewan.
CAL FIRE - Organizations - California Open Data
This is the main map application for CAL FIRE's 2017 Strategic Fire Plan Accomplishments.  This app is comprised of seven Journal Story Maps as well as eight web maps (two which...

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California Tree Mortality Viewer

Five long years of drought, combined with the increased infestation of 
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129 Million Dead Trees in California

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 Deputy Fire Chief | Prevention Services BureauJohn ToddJohn R. Todd is a Registered Professional Forester in the State of California and he was employed as a forester by the Los Angeles County Fire Department from 1988 to 2012. In April 2012, John was promoted to the rank of deputy fire chief of the Prevention Services Bureau (PSB). The PSB is comprised of the Fire Prevention Division, the Forestry Division and the Health Hazardous Materials Division. Members of the Bureau serve the citizens of Los Angeles County by completing inspections and educating the community about the benefits of proper safety practices, completing building, sprinkler, and fire alarm plan checks, protecting natural resources, providing conservation education programs and advice to interested groups, using technology to assess weather, fuel moisture, and fire danger, and protecting public health and the environment from accidental releases and improper handling, storage, transportation, and disposal of hazardous materials and wastes.
John received a Bachelor of Science in Natural Resources Management from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in 1988.
Forest Entomology and Pathology Program | CAL FIRE
Sudden Oak Death, caused by Phytophthora ramorum, has been found in 14 counties in California and has killed thousands of oaks. CAL FIRE's forest pest specialists help protect the state's forest resources from native and introduced pests, conduct surveys and provide technical assistance to private forest landowners, and promote forest health on all forest lands. The introduced pitch canker pathogen has attacked Monterey, Bishop, and Shore pines along the central and north coast. 
  

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