Community Wildfire Preparedness Open Houses

Community Wildfire Preparedness Open Houses

The CAL FIRE Tuolumne-Calaveras Unit, in partnership with the Calaveras County Office of Emergency Services, Calaveras County Sheriff and the Calaveras County Local Fire Agencies, invites you to an open house to discuss fire safety and evacuation preparedness! Please...
Spring 2019 SCALE Meeting — In JACKSON!

Spring 2019 SCALE Meeting — In JACKSON!

The Sierra Institute will be hosting the spring edition of the biannual SCALE meeting in Jackson, May 30-31, 2019. In addition to discussions of pressing issues for advancing collaborative forest restoration, this will be an excellent opportunity to learn from one of...
Tree-planting programs can do more harm than good…

Tree-planting programs can do more harm than good…

Conventional wisdom holds that all tree planting is good for fighting climate change and supporting wildlife, but research shows some techniques can be a problem. This article, which features Dr. Malcolm North, was published online by National Geographic, April 26,...
Forest thinning project near Glencoe breaks ground

Forest thinning project near Glencoe breaks ground

ACCG and CalAm member Pat McGreevy is forging ahead with a fuels reduction project funded by an SNC grant. Read all about it in a Calaveras Enterprise article, published May 3, 2019, by Davis Harper: Link: ...
Destined to Burn: Sacramento Bee Series on Fire in California

Destined to Burn: Sacramento Bee Series on Fire in California

Published 4/11/2019 From the Oregon border to the hills of San Diego County, California is a state that is destined to burn. Every summer brings new evidence of that in places like Paradise, Malibu and Santa Rosa. Millions of us live surrounded by our state’s natural...