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California Demonstration State Forest Adds 2,500 acres
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CAL FIRE Partners with U.S. Army Reserve
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CAL FIRE Funds Workforce and Business Development Projects 
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CAL FIRE Awards Grant to Sierra Pacific Industries to Grow 25 Million Seedlings
CAL FIRE Announces the Availability of Funding for Projects that Proactively
 Address Wildfire Prevention and Forest Health
CAL FIRE Releases Updated Fire Hazard Severity Zone Map for Public Comment, Will Host 57 Public Hearings throughout California
CAL FIRE Releases Historic Green Schoolyards Grant Guidelines for Public Review
600th Community In California Designated 'Firewise"
Jackson Demonstration State Forest Newletter


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Governor’s Task Force Outlines Actions to Reduce Wildfire Risk, Improve Health of Forests and Wildlands 

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California Arbor Week 2021
Fire Prevention and Forest Health
CAL FIRE Investigators Determine Cause of the Zogg Fire

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Tahoe Program Timberland Environmental Impact Report Certification
CAL FIRE Urges Personal Responsibility in Protecting Against Wildfire - Wildfire Preparedness Week is May 2-8

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CAL FIRE Stresses Safety this Memorial Day Weekend 

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CAL FIRE Releases The Fire Perimeter Database of 2020
CAL FIRE Urging Safety as the Fourth of July Approaches

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CAL FIRE Seizes Nearly 80,000 Pounds of Illegal Fireworks

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CAL FIRE Funds Collaborative Projects to Advance Forest Health and Resilience

CAL FIRE Releases Glass Fire Investigation Report

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CAL FIRE Awards Nearly $138 Million in Local Fire Prevention Grant

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California Forest Improvement Program Funding Announced

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CAL FIRE Urges You To Keep an Eye What's Cooking

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Prescribed Fire
When the first European explorers encountered these landscapes, they reportedly marveled at their picturesque, park-like qualities. These qualities were due to Indigenous Peoples managing many of these landscapes with fire over thousands of years. Intentional fire cleared dead and downed woody material, released nutrients into the soil and initiated new growth on which the animals and Indigenous Peoples depended.
Current Conditions
As Sonoma County was settled, wildfires were frequently suppressed. This led to the buildup of large amounts of woody vegetation. In addition, logging often removed the largest trees, leaving regenerating forests to grow into dense stands of trees. Foresters call these “dog-hair thickets” - walls of impenetrable vegetation created by many trees fighting for limited resources. These conditions - along with invasive pathogens like sudden oak death, which kills tan oaks, and drought-related bark beetle outbreaks, which kill vast areas of pine forests - led to the volatile combustibility of local forests.
In addition to these events, climate change has exacerbated fire intensity and severity by increasing daily temperatures and extending the annual dry season. As a result, we now regularly experience catastrophic wildfires in California.

Solutions
There are solutions that can nurture our landscapes back to health. However, it will take time and a commitment to work with the ecological processes that have shaped these landscapes for eons. Our goal is to use prescribed fire as a tool to transform young and dense forests and woodlands into mature, self-sustaining ecosystems reminiscent of the past and resilient to the conditions of tomorrow.

Land Management and Prescribed Fire
Prescribed fire is a vital element that has been missing from our landscapes for over 100 years. It is one of the many tools that can help reduce vegetation (referred to in land management as "fuel loads"), help protect our communities and revitalize our ecosystems. We are implementing a multi-phased approach that includes creating shaded fuel breaks along trails and roads. Shaded fuel breaks clear the understory in wooded areas, creating defensible space for firefighting and control lines for prescribed fires.
Prescribed fire is the purposeful use of fire in an area. It is carefully planned and carried out under specific weather and fuel  moisture conditions called a “prescription”.
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Auburn Shaded Fuel Break
Cal Fire
$1,998,761
Awarded
9/16/19
In-Progress

American River Canyon
Middle Fork Project
$49,500
Awarded
9/10/18
9/20/18

American River Canyon- Gold Street
Middle Fork Project
$22,437.50
Awarded
10/29/18
11/1/18

American River Canyon- Tamaroo Drainage
Middle Fork Project
$20,000
Awarded
6/8/20
Complete

Bolstering American River Canyon- Virginia Street
CA Fire Safe Council
$140,000
Awarded
4/1/19
Complete 10/1/20

American River Canyon- Blackstone
Middle Fork Project
$24,5000
Awarded
6/8/20
Complete

American River Canyon- Eagles Nest
Middle Fork Project
$49,500
Awarded
4/1/20
Complete 10/1/20

American River Canyon- Aeolia/Olive Orchard
Middle Fork Project
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7/15/19

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1
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Expected work includes, but is not limited to: prescribed fire ethnography, live fuel moisture dynamics, microsite controls on fire weather and burn windows, fire intensity and principles of pyrodiversity, seasonal influences to prescribed fire effects, and the characterization of prescribed fire in riparian areas. This work directly supports the mission of the California Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force and will provide a scientific foundation for promoting more prescribed fire in oak woodland, chaparral, and blue oak savannah environments.
San José State University (PI: Dr. Kate Wilkin), SJSU Prescribed Fire Monitoring & Research Program in the South Bay and Central Coast.
Prescribed fire research and monitoring is needed to help managers effectively meet their project goals. Dr. Kate Wilkin at San José State University’s (SJSU) Biology Department and Wildfire Interdisciplinary Research Center (WIRC) has a unique opportunity to complete Prescribed Fire Monitoring and Research in the South Bay and Central Coast region. This work aims to explore: the efficacy of prescribed fire and mechanical pre-treatment in Coastal Prairie Restoration, remote-sensing and scalable treatment effectiveness monitoring in CALFIRE-SCU, and chaparral pyrodiversity following the 2022 California Canyon Fire Experiment.
 


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Recently published work in the news: Understanding plants can boost wildland-fire modeling in an uncertain future.

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When fire encounters areas of heavy fuel loads (continuous brush, downed vegetation or small trees) it can burn these surface and ladder fuels and may quickly move from a ground fire into a crown fire.
Hazardous fuel reduction generally requires the reduction of surface and ladder fuels. It may also require thinning out dense tree stands, preserving mature sized trees. It can be accomplished using fire, biological methods, chemical and/or mechanical treatments to remove or modify fuels in wildland areas.
For years, managers have recognized the risks of damage to the environment, housing and infrastructure from wildland fire and have acted to reduce wildland hazardous fuels, by thinning, prescribed burning, and other vegetation treatments.  Reducing fire intensity through vegetation management can substantially aid in wildland fire containment and control, while creating safety zones for fire fighter and citizen safety.
Fuel treatments are intended to lower the risk of catastrophic wildfires by managing vegetation to modify/reduce hazardous fuels.  The goal of fuel treatment projects is to modify fire behavior to reduce environmental damage and aid in suppressing wildfires.  Benefits from fuel treatments include; prevent loss of lives, reduce fire suppression cost, reduce private property losses and protect natural resources (control of unwanted vegetation, including invasive species, improvement of rangeland for livestock grazing, improvement of fish and wildlife habitat, enhancement and protection of riparian areas and wetlands, and improvement of water quality) from devastating wildfire. 
CAL FIRE funds and carries out various types of wildland fuels treatments, for the purpose of reducing fire hazard or severity, through a number of programs. Programmatic environmental documents provide the CEQA disclosure and analysis for fuels projects carried out under the Vegetation Management Program and California Forest Improvement Program. Fuels treatments that are out of the scope of the analysis of these CEQA documents require additional environmental analysis and documentation.
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As these climate-driven natural disasters become more severe in California, the California Governor’s Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) staff has met each...	Read MoreRead more about Watch: Shining a Spotlight on Staff – I am Cal OES Video Series – Elise Arata, Senior Emergency Services Coordinator

 

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Sonoma County Complex Fires of 2017: Remote sensing data and modeling to support ecosystem and community resiliency (PDF) Kass Green, Mark Tukman, Dylan Loudon, Allison Schichtel, Karen Gaffney, and Matthew Clark
The California Vegetation Treatment Program: integrating biological resource protection into wildfire risk reduction (PDF) Allison Fuller, Lara Rachowicz, and Heather Blair
Caltrans’ efforts to reduce the frequency and severity of wildfires while protecting California’s valuable resources (PDF) Kevin Church, Alex Areval, and Lorna McFarlane
Effects of a firebreak on plants and wildlife at Pine Hill, a biodiversity hotspot, El Dorado County, California (PDF) J. Mario, K. Klip, Molly R. Caldwell, Debra R. Ayres, and Virginia Meyer
Survival of the rare Packera layneae (Asteraceae), under chaparral and after fire (PDF) Debra R. Ayres, Virginia Meyer, Lemanie Gogol-Prokurat, and Lauren Fety
Post-wildfire response of Shasta snow-wreath (PDF) Len Lindstrand III, Julie Kierstead, and Dean W. Taylor
Elk forage response to prescribed fire in Boyes meadow, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, California (PDF) Lee H. Williamson and Floyd W. Weckerly
Post-fire species composition and abundance of a lentic-breeding amphibian assemblage: case study of Ledson Marsh (PDF) David G. Cook and Marc P Hayes
Analysis of the impacts of the Soberanes Wildfire on stream ecosystems (PDF) Jessie M. Doyle, Mikaela Bogdan, and John R. Olson
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