Preserve Management – Pepperwood Preserve

Building Community Around Good Fire

on June 24, 2022

Clint McKay (Pepperwood’s Indigenous Education Coordinator, the Chair of Pepperwood’s Native Advisory Council, and cultural burn coordinator for…

Blog, Community, Fire Mitigation, Indigenous Science, Intentional Fire, Native Advisory Council, Preserve Management, Research, Stewardship

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Restoring Our Native Grasslands: Regenerative Agriculture

on May 23, 2022

Belted Galloway cattle, owned by Markegard Family Grass-fed, are grazing Pepperwood’s grasslands. Visiting Scholars’ Center is in the…

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Drought Busters: Next Generation Soil Moisture Monitoring

on May 2, 2022

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

on May 2, 2022

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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First Cultural Burn at Pepperwood in Over 200 Years

on March 14, 2022

At Pepperwood, we believe that California Native communities must be active partners in the re-integration of Native lifeways and TEK into the life and landscapes of Northern California, and…

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In Search of Monarch Butterflies

on February 16, 2022

By Dylan MacArthur-Waltz, Pepperwood Visiting Scholar & PhD Candidate, Population Biology, UC Davis I am a second year PhD student at UC Davis…

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The Wild Wondress

on January 20, 2022

Through the Eyes of an Environmental Educator By Summer Swallow, Environmental Educator My name is Summer Swallow, and I…

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Pepperwood Pre-European Contact

on November 18, 2021

What did Pepperwood look like before European contact? Pre-European contact, Wappo villages were widely distributed in Napa, Sonoma, and Lake Counties. Wappo…

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Pepperwood’s New GrizzlyCorps Fellow

on November 9, 2021

By Makayla Freed, Pepperwood’s GrizzlyCorps Fellow Hello everyone! If we haven’t already met, my name is Makayla and I…

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Recipe for Resilience

on October 26, 2021

Forest Thinning for Forest Health – with Preserve Manager, Michael Gillogly Our mixed hardwood and oak woodlands and forests are threatened from…

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