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Description: The ACCG Monitoring workgroup and the SOFAR Landscape Design Team will host a one day field tour that will highlight ongoing restoration planning efforts in the Caldor Fire building upon an earlier field tour which highlighted ongoing monitoring and research in the Power Fire. We hope this field tour will provide on-the-ground examples and the opportunity to discuss past and future management plans for wildfire recovery in mixed-conifer forests and riparian areas.

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This presentation will summarize a literature review conducted by a team of scientists from across western North America on the topic of climate change and western wildfires. Rapid climate change is bringing warmer, drier, longer wildfire seasons to our region. In fire-dependent forests, these wildfires are burning in fuels that built up during more than a century of policies that favored fire exclusion. Consequently, wildfires have been increasing in severity and area-burned. We focused our review around ten common questions about adaptive forest management and how it can be used to assist climate and wildfire adaptation. The first of these questions addressed how fire exclusion transformed western forests and left them more vulnerable to drought, insects and disease agents, and wildfires.

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Following the 2020 Bobcat Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains, the SGVCOG identified a need for a regional program to provide wildfire adaptation and prevention resources to cities and residents. To mark the launch of this program, the SGVCOG is bringing together expert panelists to discuss how cities and communities can help support successful wildfire programs and prevent future wildfires.

Recordings are available at: sgvcog.org/wildfiresummit

The ACCG Monitoring workgroup and the SOFAR Landscape Design Team is hosting a symposium that will highlight ongoing monitoring and research in the Power Fire and its application in post fire restoration planning (e.g. Caldor Fire).

Join the authors of the recent publication “Operational resilience in western US frequent-fire forests” for a discussion and presentation about the latest recommendations and considerations for managing forests for resilience.

Accurate monitoring of forest activity is an essential component of sustainable forest management, but effective monitoring is an ongoing challenge in forests globally. The USDA Forest Service (USFS) and State of California committed to treating 500,000 acres annually for a total of 1,000,000 acres per year by 2025. In this webinar, Dr. Knight highlights new findings on the State’s progress, the management implications of these results, and how accurate tracking methodology can be applied to new settings.
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In this webinar, we will present results from a simulation study of the southern Sierra Nevada Mountains that investigated the relative effectiveness of a variety of fuel treatment strategies and the tradeoffs of implementing fuels programs with competing management goals.

California is facing unprecedented wildfires how can we respond? In today’s fire regime, we need a diverse toolbox to respond effectively and sustainably manage the land to prevent catastrophic wildfires. The California Range Management Advisory Committee, an advisory body to the California Natural Resources Agency under the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, is co hosting a workshop with the University of California, Agriculture and Natural Resources Program to discuss the use of prescribed livestock grazing as a sustainable fuel reduction and environmental management tool.

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The Wildlands Conservancy and ACR’s Fire Forward program are putting on a Shaded Fuel Break workshop on Saturday May 4th, 10-3. Its freewith lunch provided.

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This webinar will briefly explain the methods powering a new web tool that allows anyone to view and download tree mortality information for anywhere in California. We’ll also be demonstrating how this tool can be used and how its results should be interpreted.

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The 255,000 acre 2013 Rim Fire created an opportunity to study fuels treatment effects across a large forested landscape in the Sierra Nevada. Join the webinar to hear what researchers found. 

This webinar will present our results from the Sierra Nevada and southwestern ponderosa pine forests in an effort to provide insight into the future of managing for adaptive capacity in fire-prone forest ecosystems. 

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This field tour will visit nearby fuel breaks and discuss good and bad examples, fuel break maintenance, funding and cost-share programs for fuels reduction, methods for fuel break construction and maintenance, and the current status of area fuel breaks.

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Join us at the UC Hopland Research & Extension Center. Participants will learn about fuel hazard reduction treatments, tour a 10-year old fire/fire-surrogate study, and help build a decision support tool for Chaparral.