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Coastkeeper Workshop

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 20, 2019 with No Comments

Our friends at Orange County Coastkeeper are committed to building climate resilient communities and ecosystems. Coastkeeper is hosting a workshop to teach you how to protect your home by creating a defensible landscape that is less likely to ignite. We will highlight simple steps to fire management including the how to’s on creating a defensible space around your home with landscaping elements and techniques. This event is FREE and no registration is required.

Brush Clearing Tips

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 18, 2019 with No Comments

When the winds blow, you need to be especially mindful of outside work. Weed whacking on high heat, high wind, low humidity days can spark a fire by accidentally hitting a rock. It is advised that this kind of yard work be done before 10:00 AM while overnight humidity is still in the plants. Be safe and mindful of these extreme weather days.

Response to Opinion Piece

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 16, 2019 with No Comments

Here is another letter to the editor that you may not have seen in response to the September 4 OC Register article. It was submitted by Brea resident Eric Johnson. The boogeyman in this battle over Esperanza Hills is not the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). Very few lawsuits are actually filed under CEQA: less than 1% of projects subject to CEQA review are actually challenged in court. To say that CEQA stops projects is flat out wrong. The law … Read More

View from Space

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 14, 2019 with No Comments

This is so cool to see our work from SPACE. East of LA’s lights the biggest dark spot (open space) is the Cleveland National Forest. If you follow that up the photo, you can see the entire Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor. Zoom in to get a closer look. If you are geographically challenged, find the biggest island (Catalina) by the rectangular-ish point (Palos Verdes) and the Puente-Chino Hills are northeast from there (aim to 2:00)

Fuel Breaks Aren’t Working

by Melanie Schlotterbeck on September 13, 2019 with No Comments

It is high time our fire agencies looked at what is actually working and what isn’t when it comes to wildland fires and home protection. Our codes don’t keep up with the latest lessons learned from fire disasters. “We do fuel breaks because the premise is we’ve got a wildfire containment problem” when in fact, Cohen argues, we have a home ignition problem.” View the Los Angeles Times article.

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