Controlled burn at Redwood Regional Park
December 12, 2012 by Wendy Tokuda
In summer 2012, we reported on the East Bay Regional Park District’s plan for a prescribed burn at Redwood Regional …
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Diablo Firesafe Council
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
DFSC’s role in Alameda and Contra Costa Counties is to serve as a catalyst for bringing together people, agencies and the means to substantially reduce the impact of wildland fire.
California Chaparral Institute
July 20, 2012 by Bay Nature
This statewide organization conducts education, research, and advocacy about chaparral, arguably the most distinctive California landscape.
Taming the Flames
July 10, 2012 by Wendy Tokuda
The 1991 Oakland Hills firestorm left no doubt that big fires happen in the East Bay. Now, the East Bay Regional Park District is fighting fire with fire at Redwood Regional Park, one part of a massive effort to reduce fire danger across thousands of acres in the East Bay Hills.
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Pinnacles tests out tribe’s fire tradition
December 05, 2011 by Alison Hawkes
When Europeans arrived at what is now Pinnacles National Monument, the land was not exactly a “pristine” or “untouched” vision of nature, but rather a managed ecosystem that itself had become dependent on fires set by the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band. Scientists are studying the traditional fire practices to help the ecosystem build greater resilience to major disturbances like climate change.
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Oakland’s Claremont Canyon, 20 Years After the Fire
October 19, 2011 by Daniel McGlynn
Two decades ago, parts of Claremont Canyon burned in one of the largest wildfires the Bay Area has ever seen. Since then, neighbors have steadily worked to make themselves at home in a fire-prone landscape.
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California Indians and Their Environment: An Introduction
December 11, 2009 by Alan Kaplan
California Natural History Guide No. 96, by Kent G. Lightfoot and Otis Parrish, University of California Press, Berkeley, 2009. $19.95. …
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Coe’s Fire Followers
October 01, 2009 by Daniel McGlynn
The 2007 Lick Fire was a firestorm that consumed 47,000 acres, most of it in Henry W. Coe State Park, east of Gilroy. Just days after the fire, park volunteers were on the scene. Two years later the “fire followers” of Coe Park are still at it, and even in the face of park budget cuts, they hope to keep their research going for years to come.
Fire on the Mountain
October 01, 2009 by John Muir Laws
A year after fire burned through two canyons on San Bruno Mountain, artist Jack Laws visited to see how different fire intensities left their mark on the plants of Buckeye and Owl canyons.
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Forged by Fire
October 01, 2009 by Lester Rowntree
We know that wildfire is a key part of the ecology of the Bay Area and has played a major role in shaping our landscapes. Yet it’s simply not possible to let fires burn naturally in an urban region such as ours. But just to the south, the 240,000-acre Ventana Wilderness near Big Sur is large and remote enough to allow for the return of a natural fire regime. That’s what has happened over the past 30 years as a series of lightning-ignited wildfires has helped shape both a living laboratory of fire ecology and an increasingly diverse landscape.
