by Nic Elmquist | Jul 9, 2020 | Risk Management
This issue of the Journal of the California Native Plant Society is devoted to California native plants and how their role in fire safety. It includes papers on subjects such as “The Role of Fire Safe Councils in California” and also a paper written by...
by sbfirescadmin | Jun 2, 2020 | Risk Management
Wildfire Risk to Communities is a free, easy-to-use website with interactive maps, charts, and resources to help communities understand, explore, and reduce wildfire risk. It was created by the USDA Forest Service under the direction of Congress and is designed to...
by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Risk Management
Wildfires are a major hazard to humans in the southern California Mediterranean ecosystem and improving our understanding and delineation of different fire regimes is critical to mitigating wildfire-related hazards
by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Risk Management
Recent fire seasons in the western United States are some of the most damaging and costly on record. Wildfires in the wild land urban interface on the Colorado Front Range, resulting in thousands of homes burned and civilian fatalities, although devastating, are not...
by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Risk Management
The Tubbs fire began on the night of Oct. 8 near Calistoga in Sonoma County under extreme fire weather conditions, with high winds and low relative humidity.
by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Risk Management
Drought sets the stage for crowded forests to succumb to bark beetles. Chris Fettig has been studying tree mortality around the globe for decades, but he was unprepared for the large-scale event that hit California’s central and southern Sierra Nevada in the last...
