Hi All,
The Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County will be meeting Wednesday January 10, 2024 starting at 5:30PM. Zoom link below.
This month we have 2 very special guest speakers. Please don’t miss this one!
Agenda attached.
1) Eric Knapp: Research Ecologist, Pacific Southwest Research Station, USFS
For more information on Eric’s background and work see:
https://www.fs.usda.gov/research/about/people/eknapp
Eric plans to discuss research plots near Tenant with direct fire effects outcomes of fuels treatments, post Antelope fire of 2021. The following is the synopsis as stated on their research summary website:
Fuel treatment effectiveness.
We are studying how thinning and prescribed fire treatments perform when impacted with wildfires burning under different weather conditions. One such example are the Goosenest Adaptive Management Area and Southern Cascades Fire and Fire Surrogate studies on the Klamath National Forest, both of which burned in the 2021 Antelope Fire. Remeasuring plots following the wildfire illustrates that treating both crown fuels with thinning and surface fuels with prescribed fire results in the best outcome.
2) Brian Murphy: Wildland Fire and Fuels Specialist, Mount Shasta-McCloud Management Unit (SMMU), Shasta Trinity NF. Brian will bring the fuels effectiveness focus to the area surrounding Mount Shasta-McCloud vicinity (see map)
SMMU’s vegetation management outyear planning will help to ‘fill-the-gaps’ beyond the community defensible space project efforts. In several areas these FS projects will work in tandem with other entity work(i.e., Resource Conservation District, Land Trust, Timber Industry work). He will speak to upcoming projects in specific terms and explain their benefit in terms of effects on potential wildfire propagation.
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83558907424?pwd=LzVTSC9pSmFQRVNlcEpEQ0lwVGk2dz09
Meeting ID: 835 5890 7424
Passcode: 782498
See you there!
Giselle Nova
Coordinator,
Fire Safe Council of Siskiyou County
(530) 926-2089
(530) 859-0384 cell
