Fire and Forest: Winter fire safety …
Now that the nights are cold and we wonder if the next storm will bring rain or snow, the threat of wildfire is greatly...
Fire and Forest: ‘Citizen of the Year’ and other lessons from the Woodies …
The Woodies are the rock stars of California fire safe councils.
As the volunteer arm of the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, they abate homes...
Fire and Forest: Fire safe lessons from 2011 …
We have gotten a bit of winter recently, but we should not forget that this has been a relatively dry season, and that will...
Fire and Forest: Our vision and mission
A grantor recently asked us for our strategic plan. Since we have never done a formal strategic plan, we decided this was a good...
Fire and forest: A year in review …
The Fire Safe Council began the year with its attention on the new insect threat to the Hill’s oaks, the Goldspotted oak borer. Many...
Fire and Forest: Feds move to fix funding but homeowners still key …
“Facts are stubborn things,” as John Adams said, and a very stubborn thing over the last two decades has been how much we have...
Fire and Forest: Roof replacement going well …
Roof replacement going well …
News about the Mountain Community’s Fire Safe Council’s reroofing program has appeared in this column before, but now that it...