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Native Peoples’ Relationship to the California Chaparral

Native Peoples’ Relationship to the California Chaparral

by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Weather and Fire Environment

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...
Critical live fuel moisture in chaparral ecosystems: a threshold for fire activity and its relationship to antecedent precipitation

Critical live fuel moisture in chaparral ecosystems: a threshold for fire activity and its relationship to antecedent precipitation

by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Weather and Fire Environment

Increase Precip Volatility SwainetIncreasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first- century Californiaal 2018

Increase Precip Volatility SwainetIncreasing precipitation volatility in twenty-first- century Californiaal 2018

by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Weather and Fire Environment

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

HEALTH, WILDFIRES, & CLIMATE CHANGE IN CALIFORNIA

by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Weather and Fire Environment

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

Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests

by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Weather and Fire Environment

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...
Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems

Cumulative effects of fire and drought in Mediterranean ecosystems

by sbfirescadmin | May 8, 2020 | Resources, Weather and Fire Environment

The occurrence of multiple disturbances can jointly affect the recovery capacity of ecosystems,potentially leading to changes in vegetation dynamics or loss of resilience. The effects of interacting disturbances on ecosystems are, however, not well understood.
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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.