[Tracey Petersen]
Arnold, CA — How to reduce the risk of a catastrophic wildfire in the Mother Lode is the topic of a Zoom seminar next week with questions being taken by a U.C. Berkeley fire expert who says the next mega-fire could be in Calaveras Big Trees State Park.
The Calaveras Big Trees Association (CBTA) is hosting the meeting next Monday evening, April 18, from 6-7 p.m. The main topic will be to address how to better manage the forests that surround and border many Mother Lode communities to prevent mega-fires, which have incinerated small towns all over California in the past three years.
“Fire scientists say that what stopped the fires in their tracks in the Sequoia National Park and Caldor fires near South Lake Tahoe last year was coming up to a healthy part of the forest where it had been carefully managed, thinned and all the dry vegetation removed,” said Dr. Vida Kenk, president of CBTA, the non-profit partner of Calaveras Big Trees State Park. “That was a teaching lesson—and why it’s imperative we work year-round to keep our state and federal forests healthy.”
The keynote speaker is renowned UC Berkeley fire scientist Dr. Scott Stephens, a […]