Wildfire Fuel Reduction Archives

Reflections on the Queer Forestry and Fire Program

November 26, 2024 / community care, forestry, growing community with nature, queer fire and forestry, riddell preserve, stewardship, Volunteer

The closest sound to me is my handsaw cutting through the wood of a small Douglas fir tree, the next sound the wind bustling in the canopy overhead and through the tall dried grasses surrounding me, more distant the sounds of laughter and conversation from those working around me, beyond that the consistent call of the foghorn from the bay. These sounds surround me as I work in the Ocean Song grassland, homeland of the southern Pomo, alongside the twenty-five other individuals who participated in the Queer Forestry and Fire Program. These are the sounds of community, connection, and care for the land and each other that we created in this program.

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Caring for the Land at Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Educational Center

September 12, 2024 / growing community with nature, right relations, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction

Stewardship is a strengthening of the relationship between person and land. When we steward, we connect directly with the plants and animals, fungi and watersheds, but we also connect with history. This is because for tens of thousands of years people have lived on this land and cared for it, as we try to now.

In Sonoma County, these people are the Pomo, Coast Miwok, and Mishewal Wappo. They are represented through various federally recognized and unrecognized tribes. On August 31, we had the privilege of joining community stewards and Sonoma Earth School in an amazing day of stewardship at Ya-Ka-Ama Indian Education and Development, Inc. Click one the tags above to read the entire story.

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Community Partnership: Worker Leaders with North Bay Jobs with Justice Create Fuel Breaks at a LandPaths’ Preserve

June 18, 2024 / growing community with nature, stewardship

Community partnerships lie at the heart of LandPaths’ mission to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. In March, we collaborated with worker leaders with

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Reflections: Slow Restoration Community Forestry Project for Women and Nonbinary Participants

November 20, 2023 / forestry, growing community with nature, riddell preserve, slow restoration, stewardship, wildfirefuelreduction

By Lara O’Herlihy, Stewardship Field Specialist This past October, fourteen strangers met for the first time at Riddell Preserve, LandPaths’ 400-acre protected open space preserve in the

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What’s It Like to Participate in a Prescribed Burn?

October 17, 2023 / growing community with nature, stewardship

by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist at LandPaths I arrived at LandPaths’ Ocean Song/Myers Preserve at 7:30am, the sun rising over a thick ocean of fog, and

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A Classroom Takes to the Land: A Day of Environmental Philosophy & Stewardship with Santa Rosa Junior College students

October 25, 2022 / environmental education, growing community with nature, riddell preserve, stewardship

by Miles Sarvis-Wilburn, Stewardship Field Specialist I met Professor Alexa Forrester for the first time at a LandPaths’ volunteer stewardship day. A professor of Philosophy at Santa

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The view from Riddell Preserve during the Walbridge Fire. A tree in shadows sits close to camera and the dawn sunrise shines pink and purple with hills in the distance.

Fire, Grief, and Recovery at Riddell

September 4, 2020 / community care, community resilience, growing community with nature, Healdsburg, riddell preserve, walbridge fire, wildfire

As the Walbridge fire bore down on Riddell, LandPaths’ 400-acre preserve west of Healdsburg, firefighters carefully swept the deck of the dry leaf litter around Steve’s cabin. The simple

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What Does People-Powered Land Stewardship Look Like In a Pandemic?

June 24, 2020 / Covid-19, stewardship, Volunteer

At LandPaths, people-powered stewardship of the land lies at the core of our mission. Our volunteers return time and again to tend the land at our preserves and community gardens across Sonoma

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A Message from Executive Director Craig Anderson

April 2, 2020

Dear Friends, We miss you. We miss the hum of activity at a stewardship workday; We miss the morning awkwardness followed by warm, familial feelings in the

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Stewarding Forests through a Fire Ecology Lens

November 20, 2019 / fire ecology, grove of old trees, resilience, riddell preserve, stewardship, workshops

Increasingly severe fires, flooding, and drought have left us without a doubt: We are in a climate emergency. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, we

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