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
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
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 👏👏👏
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
@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.
@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.”
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
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
(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