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Building Community Around Good Fire
Clint McKay (Pepperwood’s Indigenous Education Coordinator, the Chair of Pepperwood’s Native Advisory Council, and cultural burn coordinator for…
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Restoring Our Native Grasslands: Regenerative Agriculture
Belted Galloway cattle, owned by Markegard Family Grass-fed, are grazing Pepperwood’s grasslands. Visiting Scholars’ Center is in the…
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NEW! Reimplementing TEK in Post-wildfire Ecosystems
NEW RESEARCH! Examining abiotic and biotic factors influencing specimen black oaks (Quercus kelloggii) in northern California to reimplement traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) and promote ecosystem resilience post-wildfire Ecology…
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Drought Busters: Next Generation Soil Moisture Monitoring
Pepperwood’s ecosystems and topography are an excellent representation of the North Bay, making it an ideal testbed for this…
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NEW! Comparing Approaches for Estimating Ladder Fuels & Predicting Wildfire Burn Severity
NEW RESEARCH! Comparing Remote Sensing and Field-Based Approaches to Estimate Ladder Fuels and Predict Wildfire Burn Severity Front. For. Glob. Change, 06 April 2022 | https://doi.org/10.3389/ffgc.2022.818713
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Introducing a Wildfire Preparation Approach that WORKS
Tools to Help You Reduce Wildfire Risks PRESS RELEASE We’ve learned a lot about wildfire in the last four years. Reducing our…
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The Sonoma County Wildfire Fuel Mapper
What’s needed to reduce fire risk in Sonoma County? A coordinated regional approach to manage fire fuels and protect local communities, ecosystems, and…
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TBC3 – Understanding Cycles of Fire, Water and Life
By Lisa Micheli – President & CEO In July we held the annual convening of our Terrestrial Biodiversity and Climate Change Collaborative,…
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The Burning Question for California Wine Country
View of Mt. St. Helena from Pepperwood, after the Kincade Fire in 2019. Photo courtesy of Ian A….
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Pepperwood’s Wildlife Images Contribute to First-Ever Mammal Survey of its Kind
The images from Pepperwood’s Wildlife Picture Index camera network contributed to this amazing, first-ever large-scale mammal study of its kind! PRESS RELEASE – from North Carolina Museum…
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