Confronting Wildfire: California’s Renewed Relationship with Fire
California is confronting wildfire risk head-on. Through a recent executive order, Gov. Gavin Newsom expanded the use of prescribed fire and cultural burns as essential tools for prevention — streamlining permits, boosting funding and partnering with tribal and local fire experts. The directive recognizes something Indigenous communities have known for generations: fire, when used with […]
Southern California Wildfires
Watching the destruction and devastation take hold of our great state in real-time upends our sense of place. Home is more than a building of course, it’s our neighborhood places, it’s our outdoor spaces—like state parks—and it’s the people with whom our lives are built. Seeing those people in peril and those places that were […]