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VLOG – Native Advisory Councils (feat. Clint McKay)
Continue readingIn this video by Redbud Resource Group, Clint McKay discusses the intention, function, and design of the Native Advisory Council at Pepperwood, located in his tribal territory (Wappo), Santa Rosa, California.
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Mentorship, Service, and Community in Conservation
Continue readingBy Lisa Micheli (President & CEO). January is National Mentoring Month and the month when we celebrate Martin Luther King Jr., who more than 60 years ago declared “life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?”…
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Post-fire Gully & Headcut Repair Demo Project at Pepperwood
Continue readingA Stewardship Partnership with Sonoma Resource Conservation District. This video was created to demonstrate five different types of headcut and gully repair erosion control practices in a post-fire landscape that landowners can potentially do themselves on their own properties.
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CAL FIRE VLOG – Prescribed Burn at Pepperwood Monday 11/21
Continue readingCAL FIRE Sonoma-Lake-Napa Unit, in partnership with Pepperwood, conducted a 38-acre prescribed burn on the reserve Monday, November 21. The project size targeted treatment of up to 38 acres to promote healthy forests and reduce wildfire risk on a strategic fire control ridge separating Franz Valley and the Mark West area. In the below video […]
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A Year in the Life: of a Grizzly Corps Research Tech
Continue readingBy Makayla Freed – Grizzly Corps Fellow, Research Technician. In the past year, I’ve been in over my hard hat in forest monitoring, grassland monitoring, bear scat surveys, and much much more…
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Questions about Good Fire
Continue readingWhile most of our friends and neighbors have shared their enthusiasm for the integration of “Good Fire” into Pepperwood’s stewardship, some have also expressed concerns – especially about impacts on local air quality. Here are some resources to answer questions we’ve heard from during this year’s prescribed fire season.
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Good Fire for California
Continue readingBy Michael Gillogly (Preserve Manager). California is a fire-adapted place; in fact, it needs periodic fire to thrive. It is not our choice whether California will burn, but we do have an active role in affecting how it will burn….
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VLOG: Meet the People Who Brought Cultural Burning Back to Pepperwood
Continue readingClint McKay’s people have known this land since time immemorial. The Wappo People have been tending the place we now call Pepperwood with intentional fire known as cultural burning for so long that it has shaped the landscape we see today. Meet the people who brought cultural burning back to Pepperwood in this vlog.
