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We took a spring break trip to the Santa Ynez Mountains above Santa Barbara, and the Santa Lucia Mountains east of Morro Bay. We looked at wildfire hazards in the tiny, cliff-dwelling of a town my wife grew up in, and returned to an area where I worked near Morro Bay in 2001 to

Prescribed Fire Training Opportunity Later This Month in Plumas County Collaborative event builds wildfire resilience and offers community training experience For Immediate Release: April 15th, 2025 QUINCY, CA – Partner organizations and community members are gearing up once

I shot some video on a prescribed burn in the Butte County Foothills yesterday. Volunteers and a crew from the CSU, Chico Ecological Reserves burned 9 acres near Forest Ranch, California, mainly using hand tools to slowly move fire across the hillside. This event was organized

I spent yesterday observing and documenting a 60-acre burn project in Magalia. It was run by Terra Fuego, a non-profit focused on wildfire resilience and workforce development. Here is a profile of one of their employees, whom I worked with yesterday. youtu.be/dwfkXrJNiMA?si…

This is a well-written article. Full suppression hasn’t panned out. Blanket solutions are never the answer. mountainjournal.org/white-house-re…

April is my favorite month!

Urban burning is the best! 60 acres of school district land in Magalia, burned by the Terra Fuego Resource Foundation for Butte County Fire Safe Council. We’ll have a video up about this burn in the next week or so.

The Central Coast Prescribed Burn Association, Blodgett Forest Research Station, and fire practitioners from around the State are putting on a prescribed fire training event in Georgetown in late October. The focus is on training professional foresters in the safe and

New video on The Lookout, featuring video and interviews from a large prescribed burn in Magalia, just up the road from the 2018 Camp Fire, in a neighborhood surrounded with extreme wildfire hazards. the-lookout.org/2025/05/03/a-m…

Sending a shout out to our current Lookout YouTube sponsors: FYREBX, WATERAX, and QTAC! We are gearing up for the 2025 wildfire season, and still have some sponsorship spots available for our YouTube channel, website, newsletter, and studio wall. Contact [email protected] for

The hills are turning brown. Time to finish your weed eating, and get your place ready for fire season! We look at grass conditions on Butte County webcams and review the fire weather forecast for the coming week. youtube.com/watch?v=klF0W_…

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We are in LA shooting a mini doc on wildfire hazards, home hardening, fire ecology, and fire weather. Sponsor fireaside demo’d their home assessment software, today, at our vacation rental. Structure hardening expert, Dennis O’Neil helped explain the assessment to the homeowner.

Well-written article on the enormous growth of data centers in the Reno area, and what this may mean for long-term water security in the region. technologyreview.com/2025/05/20/111…

See this Instagram post by @harris__silver instagram.com/reel/DKF_6iDBK…

May was a busy month at The Lookout. We filmed a mini-documentary on wildfire and urban fire hazards in Los Angeles, riding 120 miles on eBikes from the Eaton Fire to the Palisades Fire, and all over the land between the two. Also, videoed prescribed burns in Chico area, and