Explore California’s Conserved Lands
Explore California’s Conserved Lands
December 15, 2021 – Today, the California Natural Resource Agency launched the complete version of CA Nature, a website with a suite of interactive mapping and visualization tools. CA Nature compiles statewide information on biodiversity, access, climate, and conservation in one place to advance our conservation and land management efforts. The website will be updated regularly to track and show progress toward our conservation goals.
Prescribed Burns Helped Curb the Caldor Fire
Prescribed Burns Helped Curb the Caldor Fire
September 20, 2021 – The Caldor Fire defied expectations, climbing up mountains and crossing highways, destroying more than 1,000 structures in the process. South Lake Tahoe narrowly avoided the fire’s wrath, which fire experts say was largely thanks to fire prevention activities, including prescribed burns. The following maps show how prescribed burns and other methods of removing vegetation to reduce the risk of hotter, larger fires — known as “fuel treatments” — slowed or curbed Caldor’s growth.
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Meet the People Burning California to Save It
Meet the People Burning California to Save It
July 29, 2021 – Frequent, low-intensity fires known as prescribed burns are one of the best ways to stop wildfires. So why isn’t California lighting more of them?
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CAL FIRE Demonstration State Forests
CAL FIRE Demonstration State Forests
June 21, 2021 – CAL FIRE Demonstration State Forests represent the most common forest types in the state and serve as living laboratories for how to care for forestlands.
Click here to see a video demonstration from Soquel Demonstration State Forest in Santa Cruz.
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CAL FIRE Reforestation Center in Davis Helps Wildfire-Prone Areas Recover
CAL FIRE Reforestation Center in Davis helps wildfire-prone areas recover
L.A. Moran Reforestation Center has spent 100 years sowing seeds
May 29, 2021 – What happens after California’s massive wildfires are extinguished?
Rebuilding, in many ways, begins.
For the past 100 years, Cal Fire has been doing its part by assisting in reforestation efforts across the state.
The hub for these efforts is located on a 60-acre site along Chiles Road in Davis. The L.A. Moran Reforestation Center was established in 1921 to embrace Cal Fire’s ongoing mission to protect the people and resources of California, according to the Cal Fire website. The Reforestation Center has produced millions of tree seedlings for the state’s reforestation efforts.
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Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board - Forestry Training
Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board-Forestry Training
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A Trail For Everyone
A Trail For Everyone
Linking 15 California Mountain Communities Through Multi-Use Trails
The Connected Communities Project is a visionary effort led in partnership with the US Forest Service, SBTS, and community partners to connect 15 mountain towns for economic prosperity through outdoor recreation – an $887 billion industry. It will create a vision for a recreation-focused lifestyle through community investment, shared stewardship, economic opportunity, and important new local jobs, all benefiting economically disadvantaged communities in California’s Plumas, Sierra, Butte, and Lassen Counties. Our work will include planning, environmental review, trail creation, and maintenance of trails. It is the intent of this project to diversify recreation throughout the region, provide economic stability as well as support fire recovery and prevention efforts. This project will create a learning landscape for outdoor and environmental education programs that include youth employment and volunteer participation. The end goal is to build the proposed Lost Sierra Route, paying homage to the region and the historic Gold Rush-era mail delivery route.
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