I’ve been here for 3 1/2 years and I absolutely feel like I’m paying for the lifers (many of whom can afford a tax increase). I understand the impetus of Prop 13 but it’s way beyond unfair at this point. We need some sort of income or personal worth assessment to be part of the equation.
If it continues to burn surface fuels, this is currently #goodfire. Not knowing the area, I’d be curious to know what natural containment barriers exist and what the spot weather forecast is… If weather and ground conditions align there’s potential for more good fire.
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I feel like someone at Hooters didn’t do their market research…
You’re not wrong!!
The misinformation regarding what the requirements would actually be has been very challenging. Regardless of approval, I continue to make the same recommendations to communities in my region- remove combustibles in zone zero, trim trees to a reasonable height and keep up with clean up.
Happy PBA takeover day at #FireCon2025! Thank you to today's excellent plenary speakers! If you're attending the conference, hopefully you've been able to attend some of great PBA-related sessions on the schedule 🔥
I noticed the same… and felt a few of them.
New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! "Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire" #SNFECO 🔥
Read it here: https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00393-0
I’ve never been there… but I see some steep looking slopes. Is there any plan for the rainy season that’s here/almost here?
Our PBA offers training on the Central Coast (typically open to anyone), and @ucanr.edu Fire Network is adapting a Rx Guidebook for California (originally created for the SE US where everyone burns) targeting private landowners and fire folks without a lot of experience. We’re getting there slowly!
Community members & press are invited to observe prescribed burns during the Forester Prescribed Fire Training Exchange, Oct. 26–Nov. 1 in El Dorado County.
Observation days: Oct. 28–29 (sign-up required).
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Low flames burning in redwood forest with smoke catching sunbeams while a firelighter talks into a microphone and members of the public watch.
A firelighter walks with a drip torch in a redwood forest while members of the public watch from an adjacent sidewalk.
What a great day at the 2nd Annual Central Coast Good Fire Fair in Felton! This is what #goodfire looks like… Thank you to all who came and contributed! #goodfirefair California State Parks, @calfire.bsky.social @ucanr.edu
Typically LEOs are exempt during shutdowns and still required to work a smaller team, but they generally only patrol the front country…
Last plug to join us at the Central Coast Good Fire Fair this Saturday Oct 11 from 10am to 3pm. It’s looking promising for our demonstration burn in the redwoods 🔥 We’ll also have fun activities for kids and adults, food trucks, prizes, and more… #goodfire
Not quite that hot, but we had red flag warnings…
Burn conditions are looking promising this year! 🤞🏻🔥
A representative demoing a live fire
🔥The Central Coast Good Fire Fair is back!
Join us on Sat, Oct 11, at Henry Cowell Redwoods SP for learning, demos & family fun. Meet the people who use fire to restore & protect our landscapes—CA State Parks, CAL FIRE, Indigenous groups, & the Central Coast PBA.
Flames and smoke near the top of a grassy shrubby slope with large trees behind it.
Nice burns at Wilder Ranch State Park today! They did a great job building heat on this unit by lighting upper and lower slope to bring two flaming fronts together. Objectives include killing/limiting coyote brush and maintaining grasslands. #RxFire
Seriously one of the best of our species… she will be missed.
Taking a moment to thank Jane Goodall for her vast contributions to the world of science. Not only did she document ground breaking behavior among primates, she was an active conservationist and a huge advocate for women in STEM. She will be missed! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Great example! We need to find a way to fund home hardening and defensible space updates for those who can’t afford to do them on their on their own! Recent wildfires have shown us that entire neighborhoods need to transition to a more resilient state and that takes money and time… #fireresilient
Tonight I’m going to tell you about a California bill called SB326, authored by Senator Josh Becker and cosponsored by Senators Laird and Stern. This bill is perhaps the most significant wildfire legislation to land on Governor Newsom’s desk this year. I hope he signs it.
Join us Oct. 11 for the Central Coast Good Fire Fair at Henry Cowell Redwoods SP in Felton🌲
Live fire demos, fire science, kids' activities & more! 10am–3pm | Free entry ($10 parking).
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#GoodFire #WildfireSafety #UCANR #PrescribedFire
It would help to have a way to focus funding on low income/underserved residents, but also those in CA who are property rich and cash poor who live in very high risk areas, which includes much of my Central Coast region.
Come join us for the 2nd Central Coast Good Fire Fair in Felton Oct 11th and watch a prescribed burn in person! #goodfire #Rxburn
Fire historian Stephen Pyne wrote a commentary on our recent 🔥PNAS article: “Fire practices can support appeals to comanage ancestral lands or transfer them outright. Fire has entered the larger discourse over colonization. Roos et al. make this case explicit.” #goodfire
New post on major Southwest/CA heatwave starting tomorrow and major uptick in wildfire risk--especially in SoCal. Also, a better-late-than-never monsoonal moisture surge will occur this week, w/at least mtn/desert t-storms... #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater
This is a super complicated issue. If wildland FFs have to wear PPE, they probably can’t fight fire in the same way. Cutting line with PPE is probably not possible. 14day shifts are also maybe not possible. That would mean (1) big changes in strategy away from suppression and (2) much higher costs.
