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Upcoming Events and Webinars

1. March 19, McConnell Foundation, Redding: This event will be focused on new research around fire severity and fire regimes in southern Cascade and Klamath mixed-conifer forests. It will include presentations by a few of the lead researchers on this topic: Jay Miller, Carl Skinner, and Malcolm North. It will also include a diverse panel of land managers, who will discuss the opportunities for and challenges to incorporating fire science into management plans. This event will focus on new research about wildfire spatial patterns, size, and effects, and help clarify some of the management implications of these new findings. Space is limited, so please register soon! http://ucanr.edu/future of fire

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Research: The Importance of Community Wildfire Protection Planning

Since the inception of the Healthy Forest Restoration Act in 2003 there have been literally thousands of CWPP’s written across the nation.  My hope is that one of the outcomes of all of this hard work is that more and more communities take the opportunity commit to the Firewise Communities/USA recognition program.  The benefits of this voluntary approach results in community action in a critical area that the government agencies do not have domain - the private landowner/homeowner site and the shared common spaces that exist within these critical areas where life and property are most at risk.

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