Ever wondered what kind of native plants and wildlife pop up after a big fire? Want to explore your local parks in more depth and learn about the kinds of things that live there? Come join Save Mount Diablo for … Read more

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Ever wondered what kind of native plants and wildlife pop up after a big fire? Want to explore your local parks in more depth and learn about the kinds of things that live there? Come join Save Mount Diablo for … Read more
FREE (donations welcome) Ages 13 and up welcome (under 13 welcome with adult supervision) VIRTUAL – meet on Zoom More frequent megafires threaten some of California’s most valuable and biodiverse ecosystems. Oak woodlands support a wide array of ecosystem services … Read more
Wildfires have become larger, more frequent, more severe, and more destructive to human life and property in many ecosystems in California in recent decades. If you’ve lived in California for a while, it might feel like this has suddenly become … Read more
The splash of green on the ashen landscape was unexpected. Marc Hoshovsky, a naturalist retired from a career with California state agencies, was reviewing a satellite photo of areas burned in the LNU Complex fire last fall, hoping to tease … Read more
Discover Nature Webinar – Tracking our Feathered Friends: Bird Diversity Trends at Pepperwood Thursday, December 10, 2020 10:00 – 11:30am ONLINE using Zoom platform Free, donations welcome Ages 13 and up (youth under 13 welcome with adult supervision) Join staff … Read more
One million acres. It seems an astounding number for a single fire. Even many fire scientists, who know full well that fire belongs in these forests, struggled to contain their surprise at how large the August Complex fire in the … Read more
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What is driving the wildfires that are ravaging California, Oregon and Washington? President Trump and state officials have offered sharply different views. Trump asserts … Read more
I write from a place of love, but also a place of pain. A place of excruciating unknowing. A place of imagination – imagining the worst, imagining the best, imagining change of a sort I’ve never encountered before in my … Read more
Thin, glowing traces of lightning passed through the skylight above my bed and circumvented my eyelids to etch their way directly onto my brain as I slept. I awoke with an unpleasant start, my first thought being: this can’t be … Read more
Thursday, August 6, 2020 10:00 – 11:30am ONLINE using Zoom platform – Register here Free, donations welcome Ages 13 and up (youth under 13 welcome with adult supervision) Examining the implications of a twice-burned landscape Pepperwood’s 3,200-acre preserve has burned … Read more