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    Pepperwood > Good Fire

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Articles: Good Fire
  • June’s Prescribed Broadcast Burn a Success!

    on June 5, 2026

    Target Date: June 8, 2026 June 04, 2026–Burn Announcement: Pepperwood’s stewardship team plans to conduct a 120-acre prescribed broadcast burn at Pepperwood’s reserve near Santa Rosa, Sonoma County, from Monday,…

    Air Quality, Controlled Burning, Data, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Kincade Fire, Leadership, Local News, Monitoring, Prescribed Fire, Preserve Management, Research, Science, The News Room, Wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface

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  • Participants learn how to use a drip torch at a December 2025 LAB Day at Pepperwood. Photo by Andrea Dunlap.

    How a Free Workshop on Good Fire Is Changing Lives and Building Community

    on April 10, 2026

    Blog, Controlled Burning, Cultural Burning, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Intentional Fire, Prescribed Fire, Stewardship

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  • Good Fire at Pepperwood in the form of an Indigenous-led cultural burn collaboration in 2024–photo by Ian Nelson.

    Why We Need Prescribed Burns

    on October 27, 2025

    Why We Need Good…

    Air Quality, Blog, Climate Change, Controlled Burning, Cultural Burning, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Intentional Fire, Prescribed Fire, Research, Science, Stewardship, Wildfire

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  • Commemorating the Kincade Fire with Prescribed Fire

    on October 24, 2025

    Date: October 23, 2025 On Thursday, a diverse group of community members gathered in a collective show of solidarity to commemorate the anniversary of the Kincade Fire through a carefully…

    Air Quality, Controlled Burning, Data, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Kincade Fire, Leadership, Local News, Monitoring, Prescribed Fire, Preserve Management, Research, Science, The News Room, Wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface

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  • Prescribed oak woodland broadcast burn. 2023.

    Predicting the Climate Future of Oak Woodlands

    on July 22, 2025

    Cutting-edge Modeling to Inform Land Stewardship Strategies Under a Changing Climate Ever wonder where the data comes from that informs those advanced models that help us predict, assess,…

    Air Quality, Blog, Controlled Burning, Cultural Burning, Data, Drought, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Intentional Fire, Monitoring, Prescribed Fire, Preserve Management, Research, Science, Stewardship, Wildfire

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  • Sonoma Ecology Center staff removing invasive, flammable roadside French broom near Glen Ellen, Sonoma County. Credit: Melania Mahoney for Sonoma Ecology Center.

    Tending the Land for Fire Resilience in Sonoma County

    on September 6, 2024

    Online Resource Launched for Land Stewards

    Announcement, Conservation, Controlled Burning, Education, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Intentional Fire, Research, Science, Stewardship, The News Room, Wildfire

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  • Photo of Olivia Parra, Visiting Scholar at Pepperwood, conducting research for the UCANR Western IPM Center

    Exploring a Fiery Method for Replacing Invasive Grasses

    on August 20, 2024

    By Emma Tribble, Writer & Editor at UCANR Western Integrated Pest Management Center – This article was originally written for, and posted on the website of the UCANR Western…

    Blog, Controlled Burning, Education, Fire Mitigation, Good Fire, Grasslands, Monitoring, Prescribed Fire, Research, Science, Stewardship, Visiting Scholar

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  • Strategy: Managing Grasslands for Invasive Species

    on June 17, 2024

    Managing Invasive Species in Grasslands with Good Fire & Other Tools In this webinar, California-certified Burn Boss and Pepperwood’s Assistant Preserve Manager, Devyn Friedfel discusses grassland health through the lens of…

    Biodiversity, Botany, Conservation Grazing, conservation science, Controlled Burning, Ecology, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Grasslands, Grazing, Intentional Fire, Invasive Species, Monitoring, Natural History, Phenology, Plant Biology, Prescribed Fire, Preserve Management, Research, Stewardship, The News Room, Traditional Ecological Knowledge

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  • Adding Air Quality to Sentinel Sites: Empowering Vulnerable Communities in Fire-prone California

    on December 4, 2023

    Wildfire smoke and ash are a widespread threat to rural and urban communities, ranging up to hundreds of miles away from active wildfire perimeters. Airborne particulate matter (smoke PM2.5)…

    Air Quality, Announcement, Community, Controlled Burning, Extreme Events, Good Fire, Leadership, The News Room

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  • Grasslands: Reservoirs of Biodiversity for Climate Resilience

    on November 6, 2023

    Did you know that you can find over 30 plant species in a single quarter-square meter plot of grasslands, and that…

    Biodiversity, Blog, Conservation, Conservation Grazing, conservation science, Controlled Burning, Education, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Grasslands, Grazing, Intentional Fire, Large Landscape Conservation, Leadership, Linking Landscapes, Prescribed Fire, Regenerative Agriculture, Research, Science, Stewardship, Wildlife

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