The SBCFSC is hosting a Home Hardening and Defensible Space Workshop on Friday and Saturday, March 24 and 25. For more information and the RSVP link click the link HERE.
Critical live fuel moisture in chaparral ecosystems: a threshold for fire activity and its relationship to antecedent precipitation
Increase Precip Volatility SwainetIncreasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first- century Californiaal 2018
Mediterranean climate regimes are particularly susceptible to rapid shifts between drought and flood—of which, California’s rapid transition from record multi-year dryness between 2012 and 2016 to extreme wetness during the 2016–2017 winter provides a dramatic...
HEALTH, WILDFIRES, & CLIMATE CHANGE IN CALIFORNIA
This white paper makes recommendations for action to reduce the serious health impacts of wildfires in California’s increasingly hot climate. The recommendations include new or expanded programs, funding streams, regulations, and research.
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests
Increased forest fire activity across the western continental United States (US) in recent decades has likely been enabled by a number of factors, including the legacy of fire suppression and human settle-ment, natural climate variability, and human-caused climate...