Fire Land

From our gardens and homes, to data collection and traditional ecological knowledge, a collection of stories on how the Bay Area and California are adapting to wildfire.

Part 1: In the burn scar
Part 2: Mapping potential
Part 3: Defensible space
Part 4: Wildlife gardens
Part 5: Ohlone fire

These stories are supported by the March Conservation Fund.

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Based in the northern Sierra Nevada, Jane Braxton Little is an independent journalist covering science and natural resource issues for publications that include the Atlantic, Scientific American, National Geographic, Audubon, and Bay Nature. In 2023, when the loss of Plumas County’s only news outlet threatened to turn the area into a news desert, Jane helped launch The Plumas Sun, an online platform serving the countywide community. She lives among trees on 34 acres of forestland.