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== Wednesday October 9 2019 Fire Safe San Mateo County ==

Big meeting!

=== power outage planning ===
* chain of communication on PG&E shut downs: PG&E -> OES -> Counties & Communities
* phased shutdown.
* the big tunnels on 1 now have emergency power, and will be open.
* OES/PGE status calls: 12:30, 4:30, 7:30.

=== Prescribed Burns in Santa Cruz ===
the foresters / ecologists in State Park div do prescribed burns and wildfire engineering.
* this is the most bioderverse region in California
* too many Fir trees.
* the coastal prarire is going away. why?> no fire.
* California is a fire ecology
* Whitehouse Meadow
** acquired a while ago, but protected / neglected for years
** regular series of fires digs show going back thousands of years
** under State ownership burned about every other year for 25 years
** one of the best examples of this ecology
* burns
** ideal situation - little rain, a dryout and then ok for a good burn.
** Redwood edges the canopy is opening up and drying out. Tricky to start up a prescribed burn. too many invasive species not burned out.
** post fire assessments of invasive plant grown is done.
** burns are good to keep the invasive forest at bay. the old forest doesn't care.
* Understanding burns in Big Basin
** desired and tricky to do
** 4-6 weeks needed to dry out.
** can burn for months afterword. expensive to monitor. schedule very difficult to manage.
** result: '''not enough burns in Big Basin'''
* the high chaparral in Big Basin
** FIRE BOMB!
** 60-80 year big burn cycle natural
** local fauna evolved to live in the resulting sandy soil.
** local flora evolved to germinate by burns.
** no burns, too much mulch provides beds for opportunistic invasive plants.
* Rigelines
** 100' fire blocks are planned along strategic riges
** examples up in Cowell State Park
** blocks are burnt out after cut brush '''and''' soil dries enough
*** CalFire eager to burn as soon as brush is dry, the soil and native critter health isn't their hoe to row
*** negotiatinos between State parks and CalFire on when to fire up the blocks.
* Troubles
** shrinking environmental windows for safe burns
*** wind, smoke fire
** urban sprawl
** $ for managing burns, no $ for planning the burns. '''!!'''
** emerging public plea for double benifits - Fuel Reduction & ecosystem revival
* MidPen Conservation Org
** stopped burns due to public pressure
** mechanical 'destruction' of brush; mostly fuel reduction not addressing soil build-up
* Lots of negotiation with Air Quality Board in Sacramento. They are relaxing their sidelines, which is an unfort necess.
* CalFire itself needs wo work with large land owners; they are the only ones who's scale of land and resources lends itself to proper procedures. Otherwise way too much overhead for individual small lot owner negotiations.

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 * the big tunnels on 1 now have emergency power, and will be open.
 * OES/PGE status calls: 12:30, 4:30, 7:30.
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 * Lots of negotiation with Air Quality Board in Sacramento. They are relaxing their sidelines, which is an unfort necess.
 * CalFire itself needs wo work with large land owners; they are the only ones who's scale of land and resources lends itself to proper procedures. Otherwise way too much overhead for individual small lot owner negotiations.

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Caseyd at 00:25, 11 November 2019

Caseyd: Created page with "== Wednesday October 9 2019 Fire Safe San Mateo County == Big meeting! === power outage planning === * chain of communication on PG&E shut downs: PG&E -> OES -> Counties & C..."