Fire Radio 10/7/24 Talk Show

Oct 18

Prescribed burn at Marshall Ranch, Honeydew (10/15/24)

Southern Humboldt Fire Safe Council is taking over for Kim Phelps for this Fire Radio program. (This is not an ISF show.) Four guests discuss the overall strategy for addressing fire suppression and healthy fire for Southern Humboldt County with host Gray Shaw: Tanner Speas (Telegraph Ridge VFD Chief, Trees Foundation); Lygle Dillon (Briceland VFD, project manager for Defensible Space Project); Michael Carter (Telegraph Ridge VFD, Trees Foundation); Damien Roomets (Briceland VFD, Trees Foundation). Topics are:

1) CAL FIRE Phase V Fire Prevention Grant: Successful Objectives, Collaboration, and lessons learned—Natural Resources Planning (Humboldt County Public Works), Trees Foundation (Tanner, Damien)

2) Southern Humboldt Defensible Space Project: Progress Report and Positive Impacts—Briceland VFD, Natural Resources Planning, Ettersburg Fire Safe Council (Lygle, Tanner)

3) Shelter Cove Wildfire Resiliency and Community Defense Project: Progress Report—Shelter Cove RID and VFD, Trees Foundation (Michael, Tanner, and Damien)

4) Upcoming Prescribed Burn Projects, why they are important, and how you can get involved (Tanner, Damien, all)—see photo above!

T. Gray Shaw

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The Institute for Sustainable Forestry (ISF) was formed in 1991 to promote sustainable forest management that contributes to the long-term ecological, economic, and social well-being of forest-based communities in the Pacific Northwest.