Burning from the Bottom Up: Restoring California’s Fire Connection – Quinn-Davidson - 12/15/21 SPZ

Описание: The lecture’s title is “Burning from the Bottom Up: Restoring California’s Fire Connection.” The speaker is Lenya Quinn-Davidson.

This lecture was part of the Sequoia Park Zoo's 2021-2022 Conservation Lecture Series, hosted by the Sequoia Park Zoo’s Conservation Advisory Committee and sponsored by Papa & Barkley. These lectures are free for our community, and your donations to the Sequoia Park Zoo Conservation Fund make this possible. You can donate at www.RedwoodZoo.org/donate

Talk synopsis:
California, like much of the West, suffers simultaneously from too much fire and not enough. While wildfires are taking a toll on communities and landscapes, so too is the continued exclusion of fire as a natural process in California’s fire-adapted ecosystems and habitats. Prescribed fire, or the beneficial use of fire as a tool, has been used by Californians for millennia to improve habitat and cultural resources—first by Indigenous communities, and later, by ranchers and other land managers. However, we know that we need to radically increase our use of prescribed fire if we are going to get ahead of our fire problems. In this presentation, Lenya Quinn-Davidson discusses recent efforts to scale up prescribed fire, highlighting policy, capacity building, and other aspects of California’s prescribed fire movement.

Lenya Quinn-Davidson is a Fire Advisor with the University of California Cooperative Extension in the North Coast of California. Lenya’s primary focus is on the human connection with fire and increasing the use of prescribed fire for habitat restoration, invasive species control, and ecosystem and community resiliency. Lenya works on prescribed fire issues at various scales, including locally in Humboldt County, where she works with private landowners to bring fire back as a land management tool; at the state level, where she collaborates on policy and research related to prescribed fire, and helps inspire and support prescribed burn associations; and nationally, through her work and leadership on prescribed fire training exchanges (TREX). Lenya is passionate about using prescribed fire to inspire and empower people, from rural ranchers to agency leaders to young women pursuing careers in fire management, and everyone in between.

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