California has 20 million acres that need fuel reduction – like tree thinning and prescribed burning. California State and the Forest Service have pledged to treat 1 million acres a year by 2025, but last year they did less than ? of that. Fire managers are often unable to plan and implement prescribed burns because […]
More ‘good fire’ could help California control future catastrophes Wildfire is inevitable. But prescribed burning—careful, intentionally set fire—could help manage the risks. BY ALEJANDRA BORUNDA PUBLISHED JULY 27, 2021 www.nationalgeographic.com GEORGETOWN, CALIFORNIA Rob York walks calmly through the quiet pines deep in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, trailing a mix of kerosene and gas from a […]
This short video shows how prescribed fire is being strategically applied in conifer forests in Montana. The lower elevation conifer forests there are very similar to the conditions of low and mid-elevation forests here in the Northern Yosemite region. Carefully managed fire can be an important tool here, as well. CHECK OUT THIS EXCELLENT VIDEO: […]
As you probably know by now, a trip to Yosemite National Park is not the same as it was in 2019, or even 2020. Covid has changed the way the Park operates. It’s important to be up to date about when you can and can’t go, what facilities are and are not open, […]
*Photos are not in order of contest ranking. Top Wildlife Photos
*Top 20 photos from the contest are linked at the bottom of this page. After evaluating 220 photo entries, the staff of the Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center (CSERC) in Twain Harte selected winning photos in the Center’s 2021 Photo Contest. Two adult award-winners were chosen in the Wildlife category […]
Read the article here: Early signs signal a disastrous wildfire season in the West
CSERC sponsors an annual photo contest to raise interest in wildlife and to encourage everyone to take notice of the beauty of nature in our region. Cash prizes will be awarded in the Wildlife Photo category and in the Natural Landscape Photo category. Between now and May 15th anyone may submit up […]
On October 7, 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order known as “30 by 30.” The order directs state agencies to deploy a number of strategies to store carbon in the state’s natural and working lands and remove it from the atmosphere. California was the first state in the nation to commit […]
Mention the word “wolf,” and it can immediately cause some people to connect to their long-held views that wolves are threats to public safety or that they are dangerous predators of livestock. In contrast, others may think of them as charismatic dog-like animals that howl at the moon and form a pack. […]