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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Sonya Bennett-Brandt is an award-winning freelance environmental journalist and editor, currently based in Austria after many beautiful years in Berkeley. Her work on conservation, climate adaptation, and the (human and nonhuman) animal world has appeared in Wired magazine, The Guardian, KneeDeep Times, AFAR magazine, and Summit Journal, among others. She has never seen a mountain lion, but a mountain lion has probably seen her.