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Join us for the California Targeted Grazing Short Course! Register by February 13, 2026 at the link in our bio.

I feel like someone at Hooters didn’t do their market research…

You’re not wrong!!

Emergency Encounters for Illness During and After the Los Angeles Wildfires:

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The misinformation regarding what the requirements would actually be has been very challenging. Regardless of approval, I continue to make the same recommendations to communities in my region- remove combustibles in zone zero, trim trees to a reasonable height and keep up with clean up.

Happy PBA takeover day at #FireCon2025! Thank you to today's excellent plenary speakers! If you're attending the conference, hopefully you've been able to attend some of great PBA-related sessions on the schedule 🔥

I noticed the same… and felt a few of them.

New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! "Indigenous stewardship rights and opportunities to recenter Indigenous fire" #SNFECO 🔥
Read it here: https://fireecology.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s42408-025-00393-0

I’ve never been there… but I see some steep looking slopes. Is there any plan for the rainy season that’s here/almost here?

Our PBA offers training on the Central Coast (typically open to anyone), and @ucanr.edu Fire Network is adapting a Rx Guidebook for California (originally created for the SE US where everyone burns) targeting private landowners and fire folks without a lot of experience. We’re getting there slowly!

Community invited to observe prescribed fire training in El Dorado County | Green Blog California’s second Forester Prescribed Fire Training Exchange event will occur Oct. 26–Nov. 1 near Georgetown, El Dorado County. The public is invited to observe scheduled burns.

Community members & press are invited to observe prescribed burns during the Forester Prescribed Fire Training Exchange, Oct. 26–Nov. 1 in El Dorado County.

Observation days: Oct. 28–29 (sign-up required).

Learn about “good fire” & forest resilience: bit.ly/3J4EmdC

Low flames burning in redwood forest with smoke catching sunbeams while a firelighter talks into a microphone and members of the public watch.

A firelighter walks with a drip torch in a redwood forest while members of the public watch from an adjacent sidewalk.

What a great day at the 2nd Annual Central Coast Good Fire Fair in Felton! This is what #goodfire looks like… Thank you to all who came and contributed! #goodfirefair California State Parks, @calfire.bsky.social @ucanr.edu

Typically LEOs are exempt during shutdowns and still required to work a smaller team, but they generally only patrol the front country…

Last plug to join us at the Central Coast Good Fire Fair this Saturday Oct 11 from 10am to 3pm. It’s looking promising for our demonstration burn in the redwoods 🔥 We’ll also have fun activities for kids and adults, food trucks, prizes, and more… #goodfire

Not quite that hot, but we had red flag warnings…

Burn conditions are looking promising this year! 🤞🏻🔥

A representative demoing a live fire

🔥The Central Coast Good Fire Fair is back!
Join us on Sat, Oct 11, at Henry Cowell Redwoods SP for learning, demos & family fun. Meet the people who use fire to restore & protect our landscapes—CA State Parks, CAL FIRE, Indigenous groups, & the Central Coast PBA.

Flames and smoke near the top of a grassy shrubby slope with large trees behind it.

Nice burns at Wilder Ranch State Park today! They did a great job building heat on this unit by lighting upper and lower slope to bring two flaming fronts together. Objectives include killing/limiting coyote brush and maintaining grasslands. #RxFire

Seriously one of the best of our species… she will be missed.

Taking a moment to thank Jane Goodall for her vast contributions to the world of science. Not only did she document ground breaking behavior among primates, she was an active conservationist and a huge advocate for women in STEM. She will be missed! www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

Great example! We need to find a way to fund home hardening and defensible space updates for those who can’t afford to do them on their on their own! Recent wildfires have shown us that entire neighborhoods need to transition to a more resilient state and that takes money and time… #fireresilient

Tonight I’m going to tell you about a California bill called SB326, authored by Senator Josh Becker and cosponsored by Senators Laird and Stern. This bill is perhaps the most significant wildfire legislation to land on Governor Newsom’s desk this year. I hope he signs it.

See ‘good fire’ demo on Oct. 11 amid redwoods at Central Coast Fair | UC Agriculture and Natural Resources The Central Coast Good Fire Fair will be held on Saturday, Oct. 11, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park in Felton in Santa Cruz County.

Join us Oct. 11 for the Central Coast Good Fire Fair at Henry Cowell Redwoods SP in Felton🌲
Live fire demos, fire science, kids' activities & more! 10am–3pm | Free entry ($10 parking).

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#GoodFire #WildfireSafety #UCANR #PrescribedFire

It would help to have a way to focus funding on low income/underserved residents, but also those in CA who are property rich and cash poor who live in very high risk areas, which includes much of my Central Coast region.

Come join us for the 2nd Central Coast Good Fire Fair in Felton Oct 11th and watch a prescribed burn in person! #goodfire #Rxburn

Fire historian Stephen Pyne wrote a commentary on our recent 🔥PNAS article: “Fire practices can support appeals to comanage ancestral lands or transfer them outright. Fire has entered the larger discourse over colonization. Roos et al. make this case explicit.” #goodfire

Major heatwave to bring increased wildfire risk, and (finally!) a substantive monsoonal surge to California & Southwest - Weather West August has been considerably warmer than July in most spots--and will likely end up above average statewide The latter portion of June and most of July was a notably cool summer period for much of California--contrary to both short- and medium-term expectations. But the first half of August has, once again, seen a return to

New post on major Southwest/CA heatwave starting tomorrow and major uptick in wildfire risk--especially in SoCal. Also, a better-late-than-never monsoonal moisture surge will occur this week, w/at least mtn/desert t-storms... #CAwx #CAfire #CAwater

This is a super complicated issue. If wildland FFs have to wear PPE, they probably can’t fight fire in the same way. Cutting line with PPE is probably not possible. 14day shifts are also maybe not possible. That would mean (1) big changes in strategy away from suppression and (2) much higher costs.

As California burns, new research shows smoke is wildfire’s silent killer The official death count from the Palisades and Eaton fires was 30 — the real number may be 15 times higher.

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In 2015, global nations pledged to take actions to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F) above the pre-industrial baseline temperature in what has come to be known as the "Paris Agreement." In 2023 and 2024, global temperatures approached or even exceeded that warming target on a temporary basis--an Thoughts from a climate scientist on what it means to exceed the 1.5°C global warming target

I published a video focused on my perspective on the 1.5°C temperature target and what it will mean to exceed it. This monologue is an honest (and unvarnished) scientifically-informed personal reflection, so I hope you'll give it a listen. #ClimateChange www.youtube.com/watc...