{"id":4507,"date":"2022-04-14T14:27:44","date_gmt":"2022-04-14T21:27:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=4507"},"modified":"2022-04-16T21:06:20","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T04:06:20","slug":"preventing-catastrophic-wildfires-with-publics-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2022\/04\/14\/preventing-catastrophic-wildfires-with-publics-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Preventing Catastrophic Wildfires With Public\u2019s Help"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>[Tracey Petersen]<\/pre>\n<p>Arnold, CA \u2014 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.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFire 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,\u201d said Dr. Vida Kenk, president of CBTA, the non-profit partner of Calaveras Big Trees State Park. \u201cThat was a teaching lesson\u2014and why it\u2019s imperative we work year-round to keep our state and federal forests healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The keynote speaker is renowned UC Berkeley fire scientist Dr. Scott Stephens, a [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mymotherlode.com\/news\/local\/2480541\/preventing-catastrophic-wildfires-with-publics-help.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Tracey Petersen] Arnold, CA \u2014 How to reduce the risk of a catastrophic wildfire in the Mother Lode<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"thumbnail":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"medium_large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"large":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"1536x1536":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"2048x2048":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"darknews-slider-full":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"darknews-featured":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"darknews-medium":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995.jpg",528,369,false],"darknews-medium-square":["http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/ScreenHunter-1995-350x350.jpg",350,350,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"News MoLo","author_link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/author\/admin\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/News\/news\/\" rel=\"category tag\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4509,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4507\/revisions\/4509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}