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Rural County Representatives of California Reports California Leadership Announces Forest Task Force Relaunch and Early Action Wildfire Funding Published: Monday, 12 April 2021 05:53 April 12, 2021 - The Rural County Representatives of California (RCRC) reports last Thursday, Governor Gavin Newsom and California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot announced the relaunch of the Governor’s Forest Management Task Force, which will feature a new collaborative leadership structure utilizing experts at all levels of government, including RCRC Chair Supervisor Stacy Corless, Mono Co...

Governor Gavin Newsom visited a fuel break made possible by executive action in 2019 that helped firefighters respond to last year’s devastating Creek Fire, and highlighted the agreement on a $536 million legislative package to accelerate fire prevention projects that protect communities. “Perhaps nowhere is the threat of wildfires caused by climate change more evident than here in Fresno County, where the state’s tree mortality caused by drought stress is greatest. Fuel breaks, like the one we toured today, play a key role because they can disrupt fire behavior, slow progression and pr...

Living With Fire: What California Can Learn From Native Burns Officials are beginning to reimagine fire and land management, drawing upon Native American tradition and perspectives that were long outlawed. By Megan Botel Ed Kashi/VII The tribe’s spiritual leader, Keith Turner, begins burn day with a ceremony, blessing each member of the group with cleansing white sage. MARIPOSA, Calif. ― Rain falls on the 300-year-old oaks on a cold midwinter morning as a group of nearly 60 gathers here on what was once southern Sierra Miwok land. Some have returned year after year. Others are here for th...

Support with an executive order in forest management task force, we've always been a leader in forest management with prescribed fires. i think this will be an educational opportunity for all to see what we do in california but the focus is on people that lost their homes and ultimately the people that have lost their lives in this tragedy. arthel: of course no doubt that is the focus. i do the want to follow up with question and ask you, would you like to restructure the department in any way? and how might the president be able to fix this. >> i could not get into restructuring. again i thin...

Including california are decadent. we've got 100 years where we've been suppressing fires because we're protecting lives and property, 40 million people in california. can't afford to have fire burning the landscape. but with that has come a buildup of -- a natural buildup of fuels. so active thinning. governor brown has led efforts through a tree mortality task force dealing with 126 million dead trees, and now a forest management task force that is leading significant efforts to increase the pace and scale in treating up to 500,000 acres a year. and that's forest thing. that's prescribed fir...