The Santa Barbara County Fire Safe Council received a $196,000 Fire Prevention grant to prepare a Community Wildfire Protection Plan for the Gaviota Coast. Learn more about the project HERE.
The Fire Environment Concept
If We Imagine A Layer Of Vegetation Added To The Topography, We Have The Second Influence-the Fuel. It Is The Source Of Thermal Energy And The Driving Force Behind The Phenomena Of Fire Behavior.
Sundowner winds
Along the Pacific coastline, beneath the ridges and canyons of the Santa Ynez Mountains, Santa Barbara, California enjoys some of the earth’s most favorable weather.
Native Peoples’ Relationship to the California Chaparral
Ethnographic interviews and historical literature reviews provide evidence that for many tribes of California, chaparral plant communities were a rich source of food, medicines, and technologies and that they supplemented natural fires with deliberate burning of...