🔥Will you be ready in 5 minutes? In the face of a wildfire, evacuation orders may give you only five minutes to leave. Those five minutes can be crucial for your safety and the safety of your loved ones. Be prepared and have a well-thought-out 5-minute plan to evacuate swiftly and safely.
Visit firefightersonyourside.org for more information on how to make your own 5-minute plan.
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California’s cycle of relentless heat and drought conditions make wildfires an ever-present risk. In the past five years, we witnessed the most destructive wildfire seasons in California’s history. This serves as a crucial reminder that wildfires can strike anytime. Don’t wait for a disaster to unfold; stay prepared, be ready to evacuate early, and have a 5-minute plan in place for a safe and swift escape.
For more safety tips, visit firefightersonyourside.org.
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September 3, 2023 – The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) reports the Governor’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Task Force (Task Force) has launched the beta version of a first-of-its-kind Interagency Treatment Dashboard that displays the size and location of state and federal forest and landscape resilience projects in California.
The dashboard offers a one-stop-shop to access data, provide transparency, and align the efforts of more than a dozen agencies to build resilient landscapes and communities in California. It reports treatment activities such as prescribed fire, targeted grazing, uneven-aged timber harvest, mechanical and hand fuels reduction, and tree planting. Users can sort treatments by region, county, land ownership and more.
The dashboard is an important step to increase the pace and scale of statewide actions addressing California’s wildfire crisis and is a key deliverable of the Governor’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan, issued by the Task Force in January 2021.
The beta version of the dashboard will continue to be refined to include additional data, including projects by local and tribal entities, along with revisions based on public feedback. An official launch is expected in spring 2024 with more complete data on projects implemented in 2022.
ABOUT RURAL COUNTY REPRESENTATIVES OF CALIFORNIA (RCRC)
The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) is a thirty-seven member county strong service organization that champions policies on behalf of California’s rural counties. RCRC is dedicated to representing the collective unique interests of its membership, providing legislative and regulatory representation at the State and Federal levels, and providing responsible services for its members to enhance and protect the quality of life in rural California counties. To learn more about RCRC, visit rcrcnet.org and follow @RuralCounties on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.
Source: RCRC
Join us and CalFire on July 26 at 3:00pm for a webinar from CALFIRE’s Forest Health Research Grant Program.
Kristin Brunk from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology will present on using bioacoustics to monitor bird habitat in Sierra Nevada forest treatments.
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Wildfire is expected to become more frequent, bigger, and hotter in the future, and managers in the western dry forests of North America face increasingly critical and time-sensitive tradeoffs when planning forest restoration activities. In this webinar, I will share some of our ongoing FHRP-funded work using passive acoustic monitoring across ~ 22,000 km2 of California’s Sierra Nevada to map avian distributions, understand habitat associations at broad spatial scales, and ultimately provide managers with the information they need to balance the short-term and long-term tradeoffs of forest restoration in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes. This is a public webinar.
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