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Ecological research backs fire mimicry approach

Lee Klinger wrote 4 weeks ago: Science Daily is reporting on a new study that documents the importance of fire feedbacks in maintai … more →

Tags: Fire mimicry, Native people, Oak health, sudden oak death

Regeneration3 comments

nancysteele wrote 2 months ago: I’ve seen the pictures and videos, and went on a short hike into the forest myself. It’s … more →

Tags: 2009 fires, Altadena, Chaparral, Jon Keeley, Los Angeles Times, station fire, Treepeople

Upcoming workshop on tree and soil care at La Casa de Maria

Lee Klinger wrote 2 months ago: THE HISTORY AND PRACTICE OF NATIVE TREE CARE Saturday, October 10, from 9:30 am to 3:00 pm La Casa d … more →

Tags: Announcements, Native people, Redwoods, sudden oak death

Prescribed (heart) Burns

desertsnail wrote 2 months ago: I live in a rural area that has about the same amazingly fire resistant properties as fluffy cotton … more →

Tags: Prescribed Burn

More coast live oaks on the mend

Lee Klinger wrote 4 months ago: Here’s further evidence that fire mimicry treatments are helping our diseased oaks. In 2005 I began … more →

Tags: sudden oak death

A Fire Storrie (Brendan)

herniaharrier wrote 4 months ago: “I just found a Lewi and a Flicker nest right next to each other,” I called over the radio. Because … more →

Tags: Field Work, Natural History, sierra nevadas

The Trudge to Mordor (Brendan)

herniaharrier wrote 4 months ago: Loaded up for the unknown we lugged out weary frames up slope.  There wasn’t a trail but we quickly … more →

Tags: Field Work, Natural History, sierra nevadas

Using fire mimicry to treat early leaf senescence in California buckeyes

Lee Klinger wrote 4 months ago: The buckeye (Aesculus californica) is a deciduous tree, low and broad in stature, that is endemic to … more →

Tags: Native people, sudden oak death

Coast live oaks responding to fire mimicry2 comments

Lee Klinger wrote 5 months ago: The use of repeat photography to document temporal changes in trees and landscapes was one of the ma … more →

Tags: sudden oak death

Fire mimicry effects on Douglas firs1 comment

Lee Klinger wrote 6 months ago: As some of you may have observed, it’s not just the oaks that are suffering here in California. Prob … more →

On the origins of fire scars in California redwoods

Lee Klinger wrote 6 months ago: Anyone who has spent time with the redwoods has no doubt seen and even ventured inside the giant tre … more →

Tags: big sur, Native people, Redwoods

Study links forest fires to climate shift

takecover08 wrote 6 months ago: A warming climate will fuel larger, more frequent wildfires in the Sierra Nevada and other parts of … more →

Tags: forest fires, Research, climate change, sequestration, Global Warming, Emissions, greenhouse gases, Environment, Wildfires

Australian bushfires raise questions over forest strategies

takecover08 wrote 9 months ago: Fire experts say inadequate fuel reduction strategies in Victoria’s forests may have contribut … more →

Tags: forest fires, Australia, Bush Fires, forced evacuation, fuel, gum trees, natural disaster, Population, Victoria

Building in all the wrong places11 comments

Che Tibby wrote 1 year ago: It never ceases to amaze me what makes the news. Without doubt the loss of life and the loss of prop … more →

Tags: chatter, whingers, Southern California, why in the hell are they building among these trees?

Burning down the House130 comments

Madronna Holden wrote 1 year ago: As Chehalis elders reminded a visiting anthropologist in 1926, human power strong enough to heal is … more →

Tags: Our Earth and Ourselves, Folklore and Oral Tradition, Environmental Psychology, indigenous, contrasting worldviews, Environmental Philosophy, culture and environment, technological choice


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