So excited that the legislature approved $20 million for a state-backed Prescribed Fire Claims Fund! Between this and SB332, we might see some much-needed change around prescribed fire in CA! The Nature Conservancy in California Senator Bill Dodd California Cattlemen’s Association Governor Gavin Newsom

Excellent video showing some good fire effects in parts of the Dixie Fire. Our wildfire disasters are the lives, communities, and homes lost, not the number of acres burned!

It’s about time this conversation gained some traction. Want to invest $3B on something? Let 120 indigenous communities establish a $25M endowment fund. $1.125M per year can go a long way on the ground from an indigenous stewardship perspective. vox.com/down-to-earth/…

Excited that AB642 was signed by Governor Newsom today! It deals with prescribed fire training and workforce issues, and it moves the needle on cultural burning! Now we need to focus our energy on SB332🤞With the Rx Fire Claims Fund and AB642, we’re 2/3! Gavin Newsom Senator Bill Dodd

Wrote a piece with Jesse Miller @texosporium.bsky.social with some answers to common questions we get about wildfire in California (hint: a lot of it comes back to needing more #goodfire) baynature.org/2021/09/29/why…

National preparedness level 3 means there are now enough resources for prescribed fire. However the new Forest Service Chief has proclaimed a policy variance from the published guidance saying that they will not do any burning until preparedness level 2. #thisputsusatrisk

Newsom just signed SB332, making CA a gross negligence state for suppression costs associated with #rxfire and giving cultural burners the same standing as burn bosses. This is a huge moment for CA and I’m so proud to have worked on it with Michael Wara & Senator Bill Dodd! 🎉❤️🔥

UCs and other land-grab universities operate on and profit from stolen land. Even when the US gov drafted treaties and tribes signed, the US locked up and never ratified them #LandBack

In this article, reputable fire scientists put down anti-fuel-reduxxers. 👍👍👍 The scientific consensus is bulletproof & these folks are like climate deniers in their isolation and their deceitful tactics. BUT, if that bothers you, listen: 👇 1/4 sacbee.com/news/californi…

Decolonizing geoscience requires more than equity and inclusion - an important new World View article in Nature Geoscience from Dr Max Liboiron nature.com/articles/s4156…

Incredible recommendations from Aidee Guzman!

Interested in post-fire regeneration in Mediterranean-type California subalpine forest? Register here for my CALFIRE Forest Health Research Program grantee webinar this Thursday 5/19 at 12pm! #wildfire #regeneration #fiveneedlepines teams.microsoft.com/registration/o…

I’m working at Vibrant Planet for the summer! It’s a fantastic group of folks working hard to save our forests 🌲🌲🌲

WKRP logo shirts are back by popular demand! They will be available for purchase at this link for a two week period starting July 21 2022! Order yours today and thank you for your support! customink.com/fundraising/ec…

Rebecca Nagle’s second season of This Land is amazing investigative journalism and should be mandatory material for any journalists covering the ICWA case The New York Times

My instrument isn't portable to the picket line, but I enjoyed representing UAW Local 5810 by playing Solidarity Forever on the Berkeley carillon tonight. #FairUCNow

Wisdom, the world’s oldest known wild bird, recently returned to Midway Atoll! The beloved Laysan albatross, or mōlī, is at least 71 years old. Biologists first identified and banded Wisdom in 1956 after she laid an egg, and the large seabirds aren’t known to breed before age 5.

Immediately after: F5.2, Zonal Stats, with Sara Winsemius and Justin Braaten. Optional function parameters, buffers, computing stats in a region, copying properties to computed images, & more. Quite amazing and useful- I used some of this code just last week!

Calling all ecologists who want satellite/climate/topography data for their plots 🛰️🌲This Wednesday come listen to ~two~ chapters presented from the EEFA book! I'll be presenting the second one with Justin Braaten on zonal stats!

New in Ecological Applications: Wildfire facilitates upslope advance in a shade-intolerant but not a shade-tolerant conifer doi.org/10.1002/eap.28… With #OpenData in Dryad #ClimateChange #RangeShifts #NSFFunded U.S. National Science Foundation Emily Brodie Jesse Miller @texosporium.bsky.social Sara Winsemius Joseph Stewart