German TV program on California wildfire, featuring Sagehen, Sagehen Forest Project partner Scott Conway, and California Observatory partner Salo Sciences.   ..read more

 The Museum of Modern Art has a great new program called "Design Emergency.". Jeff Brown joined Nicola Twilley to discuss forest and wildfire issues.  ------------------------------------------ Design Emergency explores design’s role during and after Covid-19 in a collaboration between @paolantonelli design curator of MoMA and design critic @alice.rawsthorn.   The 3D wood printing company Jeff mentions is Forust.io  ..read more

After all these years, we may have actually slain this dragon: congratulations everyone! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Governor's Press Office Thursday, August 13, 2020 (916) 445-4571 California, U.S. Forest Service Establish Shared Long-Term Strategy to Manage Forests and Rangelands Agreement will improve coordination to reduce wildfire risks on federal and state lands   Funding included in the federal Great American Outdoors Act   Agreement comes as Lake Fire burns in Angeles National Forest   SACRAMENTO -- In a key step to improv ..read more

Yesterday, we effected our first Culture of Fire underburn! Learn more at the link, but here's a snippet ..read more

 Sagehen is working hard to scale up the kind of forest treatments needed to return low intensity fire and restore health and resilience to our precious central Sierra forests. But we can't move forward--and could never have gotten anywhere in the first place--without a broad and increasing range of excellent partners. We need a fundamental shift in our cultural relationship to fire and forestry, and to get there will involve 5 prongs: Art, Business, Policy, Management, and Science. In particular, art is how you change culture, so we need an artistic response at the scale of the management r ..read more

Jeff talks about the wildfire issue on the popular WeatherBrains podcast this week: More info and audio link on the website ..read more

Google Earth has produced a timelapse of bush fires in Australia that is illuminating. The animation shows fire scars appear, fade and be overwritten by a new fire. Though fire size seems to be increasing in Australia, this process creates patchiness and resiliency in Sierra Forests, But it takes place over the hundreds of years cycle of forest tree growth, rather than the few years of brush and grasslands, so it's harder to see ..read more

Yosemite Valley in 1899 and 2011. This is an excellent background piece from the NYT. It cuts through the fantasy spin of the timber industry and the extremist environmentalist wing, stating what the majority of loggers and environmentalists already agree on. The piece cites the true leading experts in California fire history and forest ecology: Malcolm North, Stephen Pyne, Scott Stephens, Greg Asner, the Little Hoover Commission ..read more