Alison Forrestel

Forest and fire ecologist, parks for all, lover of California natural history

[Michael Wara @MichaelWWara]

State Farm is stopping the sale of new home-insurance policies in California effective Saturday, because of wildfire risk and rapid inflation in construction costs https://t.co/Ob63c2X0og

[Emily Underwood @em_underwood]

There are two kinds of extreme wildfire in California. To protect the state's unique biodiversity, we (journos, policymakers, residents) need to know the difference. Thanks @nicolakimjones for this precise Q&A with my fav fire ecologist Jon Keeley https://t.co/QXp7C4SffB

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

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[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

11,000+ acres of #goodfire at Yosemite. The easy thing would have been to put these fires out but @YosemiteNPS made the harder choice and did right thing 👏👏👏

[Yosemite Fire and Aviation Management @YosemiteFire]

Satellite imagery from Sept 23 show the majority of the #Redfire (8,410 acres) & #Rodgersfire (2,825 acres) with low-moderate severity effects, with small patches of moderate-high to high-severity effects. Fire severity refers to the effects of wildfire intensity in the forest.

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

Super proud of my colleagues @YosemiteNPS for their expertise and commitment letting #goodfire burn in the backcountry

[Yosemite Fire and Aviation Management @YosemiteFire]

Fly over #RedFire above the SW flank in the 2001 Hoover Fire footprint. The low to moderate fire behavior burning the ground level fuels including dead & downed trees, not reaching the timber canopy. Wind influenced columns are forming as fire puts in good work on the landscape.

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

Looking particularly good today @fog_karla Maybe you’re celebrating the climate bill Senate dems just passed?!

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

Opinion | What Joe Manchin Cost Us - The New York Times https://t.co/dPhHOdUNWR

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

A fire at Yosemite just outside the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. Very much hoping for quick containment and/or low severity fire in the grove.

[Zeke Lunder ~ The Lookout @wildland_zko]

Some new intel on #WashburnFire. There has been a lot of prescribed burning in the Mariposa Grove area, where the fire is burning. However, much of it happened before the big bug-kill events of past decade. The burns may help firefighters control the fire, today is critical day.

[Zeke Lunder ~ The Lookout @wildland_zko]

Some new intel on #WashburnFire. There has been a lot of prescribed burning in the Mariposa Grove area, where the fire is burning. However, much of it happened before the big bug-kill events of past decade. The burns may help firefighters control the fire, today is critical day.

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

Outraged by this spurious lawsuit. This work is what Yosemite’s forests need to have any hope of avoiding the devastation much of the Southern Sierra has seen the last two fire seasons https://t.co/u0Lu3hx5ig

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

@BitterWaterBlue But what kind of bee (wasp?) is this?

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

@JoseBilingue I feel I may be partly responsible for this tweet. Sorry!! (And yes, Teams is the worst.)

[J.D. Morris @thejdmorris]

really need a new word for “enjoying today’s weather but feeling simultaneously anxious about its medium- to long-term climate impacts”

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

@EFrost_Wildwood The still-living redwoods coming out of Big Basin and other parts of Santa Cruz following the 2020 CZU fire are similarly disturbing. I was shocked at what I saw happening on State Parks lands in the name of hazard tree removal.

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

@wildland_zko @JaredDahlAldern @ur_lexicon @LHborealis @sciam Or actually “This is what a giant Sequoia grove ravaged by fire suppression and climate change looks like.”

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

So cool!

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

For women in field ecology, I know much of this will be all too familiar. We owe a debt of gratitude to the women who came forward for this story at great professional risk. https://t.co/auDr3WwFjE

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

PS @klshive shout out for your analysis of the grove impacts

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

Somewhere between 2200 and 3600 large giant sequoias were killed by two Southern Sierra fires this year (#KNPComplex and #WindyFire). That is on top of 7 - 10k trees killed in a single wildfire last year. In the last two years we've lost 15-20% of the world's giant sequoias. 1/4

[Alison Forrestel @AForrestel]

(Hatched area in the NE has no known fire history but burned under more moderate conditions than the rest of the grove) #rxfire is hard, but it matters and @SequoiaKingsNPS no doubt saved thousands of large giant sequoias in this grove and others with #rxfire. #goodfire 4/4