Good Fire (2023)

“What in the heck is going on with your property!?” (lop and scatter QC hill) Lumber stacked everywhere, branches and brush cut and then thrown on the hillside, black charred spots everywhere…what’s going on?! (Answer – “lop and scatter”.) We acquired our first (overgrown, fire prone) property in summer 2020, and promptly got to workContinue reading “Good Fire (2023)”

Bringing Good Fire Back

Fire is an essential part of the Sierra Nevada ecology! The longer we’re here and working the land, the more obvious it is that these plants depend on fire to clear underbrush and “reset”. So what’s one to do on the urban-wildland interface, with decades’ overgrown forests, in the face of wildfire and climate change?Continue reading “Bringing Good Fire Back”