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    Pepperwood > Wildfire

Pepperwood Field Notes

Articles: Wildfire

  • 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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  • 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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  • An early warning station equipped with ALERTCalifornia camera, air quality sensors, and smoke sensors. Additionally, solar panel and radio telemetry equipment, allowing for real-time data acquisition and live and continuous reporting.

    Defending Community Health

    on August 18, 2025

    Air Quality, Data, Extreme Events, Fire Resilience, Leadership, Local News, Monitoring, Science, The News Room, Wildfire

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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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  • Making Strides in Wildfire Detection & Response

    on November 1, 2024

    Pepperwood deployed 20 air quality sensors across Northern Sonoma County and 5 “Fire First” air sensors in key wildfire risk areas. This work is part of a collaborative project…

    Climate Change, Community, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Justice, Monitoring, Research, Science, The News Room, Wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface

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  • The Next Step in Wildfire Detection, Response, and Resilience

    on September 23, 2024

    Pepperwood was recently awarded an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded grant to work with several local community service organizations to collect air quality data and develop practical and effective…

    Climate Change, Community, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Justice, Monitoring, Research, Science, The News Room, Wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface

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  • Early Wildfire Detection & Air Quality in Alexander Valley

    on September 23, 2024

    Pepperwood was recently awarded an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) funded grant to work with several local community service organizations to collect air quality data and develop practical and effective…

    Blog, Climate Change, Community, Extreme Events, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Justice, Monitoring, Research, Science, Wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface

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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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  • Grist Features Pepperwood: Learning How to Garden a Forest

    on August 17, 2023

    “An outdated land management ideology with roots in colonialism is keeping California and the West from taking essential steps toward mitigating increasingly destructive wildfires.” This article by Kristina Rizga, is…

    Announcement, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Community Science, Conservation, conservation science, Fire, Fire Mitigation, Fire Resilience, Good Fire, Indigenous Education, Indigenous Science, Intentional Fire, Justice, Leadership, Native Advisory Council, Prescribed Fire, Preserve Management, Publication, Research, Science, Stewardship, The News Room, Wildfire, Wildland Urban Interface

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