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A Big Shout Out to all those who are wildland firefighters. The fire season has started to become more of a focus now things are drying out in the U.S. Here is my report of a wildfire in the State of Arizona. https://lnkd.in/g_WDEzts #PaintedWagonFire #AZwildfires #blogging #firenews #usfirenews

It’s opening day of firearms deer season! We actively manage white-tailed deer on Ichauway with the following objectives: 1) Regulate population density to limit potential damage to sensitive ecological communities and 2) Practice Quality Deer Management (QDM) through harvest to promote healthy herds at densities in balance with current habitat conditions. We estimate our deer population annually by spotlight counts, track counts, harvest records, and stand observations. Read more about The Ichauway Approach to Coastal Plain white-tailed deer management: https://lnkd.in/e5vbha_Q

There have been 5 fires within the last week that have burned an average of 8200 acres in California. The fact that local Fire Departments have contained all of these fires with 0 fatalities deserves more recognition than I am capable of acknowledging. We at Ladris AI are here to help for both your Evacuation Planning as well as your Fire Modeling needs as this dry and hot summer continues to bring forward more activations. County of Colusa City and County of San Francisco The County of Fresno Riverside County Sheriff's Department Kern County Sonoma County Water Agency Office of the CIO CEO, Los Angeles County County of Ventura San Bernardino County Calaveras County Public Health California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) #emergencymanagement #emergencypreparedness #mitigation #riskmanagement

Education and innovation are key elements to tackle this continuing problem

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#California #wildfires have burned five times the average area this year https://lnkd.in/ehdmxQZc Join the #ClimateClassAction and calculate your #ClimateDamage on https://lnkd.in/eHKucZky #ClimateLitigation #ClimateLaw #ClimateJustice

Protecting your home from wildfires has evolved since the 60s! 🏡🌲 Rounding off #WildfirePreparednessWeek we’re taking a look back in time and reminding you how defending your home has changed. Defensible space now extends up to 100 feet from your property, divided into three zones. This space is key to slowing or stopping wildfire spread and protecting your home from embers, flames, or heat. It also gives firefighters a safer area to defend your property. Let's work together to safeguard our communities! Learn more about how to protect your property at ReadyForWildfire.org #CALFIRE #StateFireMarshal #WildfirePreparedness California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE) California Fire Safe Council Joe Tyler Anale Burlew Nick Schuler, CFO, PIO Christine McMorrow John Morgan Yana Valachovic J. Lopez

Our collaborators, the Santa Clara County FireSafe Council and San Jose Water, recently undertook an initiative to prevent catastrophic wildfires by systematically thinning down overgrown foliage, bushes, and dry wood in the Los Gatos Creek area. With the early onset of wildfire season, it becomes incumbent upon us to take timely action. Our #AI-enabled #wildfiredetection and #airqualitymonitoring sensors provide #earlydetection and #automaticalerting, further bolstering efforts in #wildfireprevention and management. “'We are in a wildfire crisis, period. There is no silver bullet to get us out. By doing treatments like this, we are removing a lot of the fuels that contribute to high-intensity fire. We can’t stop fires from getting in here and starting, but we can allow those fires to be more of a beneficial nature than a catastrophe,' said Ed Orre with California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL FIRE)." Check out the full coverage by NBC Bay Area's Ian Cull here: 🔗 https://lnkd.in/gW4jpENw 🏷️ Seth Schalet

"In other words...be accountable for your risk." "It's alright...no need. I'm not in a risk zone." Why 100ft of defensible space? Because your neighbor might not have done the same and their house may become a threat to yours. Why a 5ft Ember Resistant Zone? Because under the right conditions flames crawl along ground-based fuel (https://bit.ly/3ZBkHFT) with less intensity as shrubs, fences, or trees, but enough to get things started (wind does the rest, as this video shows). Why home hardening, even if you've got defensible space? Because ember cast (https://bit.ly/3LGqnZH) and fire tornadoes (not fire-whorls - actual fire tornadoes - https://bit.ly/31BCosm) deliver random punishments from above, not from the ground. And why P&C Insurance on top of all this? Because complete control is a fantasy. So why aren't people doing this? Why are wildfires like happened in Lahaina still happening? Because those who actually need to listen to such messages are the same who negate them on account of low 'risk intelligence' (#VBEM) Wildfire regulations only address the most obvious, perhaps 'egregious' risks, because we are good at mandating accountability in those places ("100-year flood plain"...🙄). When there's more uncertainty, when $$$ spent on resilience won't with near certainty result in tragedy averted, we hedge. We self-destructively err on the side of 'self-regulation' because it's 'the American way'. And in the event's aftermath, we blame the individuals for failing to be accountable - but in doing so suggest they had the information they needed to make responsible decisions. Usually, they didn't. Because a lack of regulations/code requirements told them they probably didn't need to worry. There's a sizeable subset who look no further than absent regulations to validate that they need not worry. There are some who are cautious no matter what, whether it's their nature or they have risk knowledge beyond what's generally known, but... When given reason to believe risk is negligible, most people will justify inaction that appears negligent only in the aftermath of a disaster. The wildfire that destroyed Coffee Park in Santa Rosa - considered far outside the wildland urban interface and separated from the hills by a 6-lane highway and a frontage road that ran alongside that highway - totaling 10-lanes of 'fire-break' - and surprised not only those who lost their homes but every community in the region, is a perfect example. Resilience requires decentralized accountability, where households manage the risk they have assumed in living where they live. This is impossible without high risk intelligence. Codes, ordinances, and regulations are as informative to risk intelligence for the homeowner as they are for the developer. Educational material like this video is another way. Exposure maps are another. So many ways to advance resilience, yet all it takes is one reason to negate it. #resilience

Landscapes like this treeless expanse of the Loess Canyons in Nebraska require regular, proactive fire management to remove both encroaching trees like eastern redcedar and their seeds. The rapid invasion of eastern redcedar across America’s Great Plains spells bad news for landowners and communities that rely on grass. These trees replace native grasses, which means less food for livestock and less revenue for ranchers. Nebraska ranchers and landowners in the Loess Canyons are fighting trees with fire, aka prescribed burning. Historically, these ares would burn every few years due to lightning strikes or Indigenous activity , but without flames, the expansion of trees is going unregulated. Landowners and ranchers in the Loess Canyons Community came together to form the Loess Canyons Rangeland alliance, a group dedicated to using fire as a land management tool. Learn more about this success story at https://buff.ly/3LxMX7q