Wildfires can burn vast areas and cause extensive damage to the landscape by destroying large tracts of wildlife habitat and depleting and/or displacing many plant and animal populations as shown above in photos from the Pearl Hill Fire. Although fire is needed and beneficial in the shrub steppe, the frequent high-intensity burns experienced in recent years pose a major threat to the flora and fauna of the region. The shrub steppe ecosystem has evolved the ability to adapt and recover from low-intensity burns over longer intervals, but is not equipped to handle the unprecedented conditions of multiple large-scale fires at shorter intervals.
FCCD partners with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to support invasive weed management and native plant restoration in burned areas. If your land was affected by the Grass Valley or Pearl Hill fires, we may have cost share opportunites for you.
Wildfire Learning Modules:
FCCD has developed the below Wildfire Modules to provide a resource for individuals and agencies interested in learning more about fire mitigation in the shrub steppe and how communities can become better fire adapted.
Moto wa mwituni unaweza kuchoma maeneo makubwa na kusababisha uharibifu mkubwa kwa mazingira kwa kuharibu maeneo makubwa ya makazi ya wanyama wa porini na kupunguza na au kuhamisha idadi kubwa ya mimea na wanyama kama inavyoonyeshwa hapo juu katika picha kutoka kwa Moto wa Pearl Hill. Ingawa moto ni muhimu na una manufaa katika nyanda za vichaka, moto wa mara kwa mara wenye nguvu sana ambao umekuwa ukipatikana katika miaka ya hivi karibuni ni tisho kubwa kwa mimea na wanyama wa eneo hilo. Mimea ya msituni ina uwezo wa kubadilika na kupona kutokana na moto wa kiwango cha chini kwa vipindi virefu, lakini haijajengwa kwa hali isiyo ya kawaida ya moto mkubwa wa msituni kwa vipindi vifupi. FCCD inashirikiana na Shirika la Shirikisho la Usimamizi wa Hali ya Dharura (FEMA) kusaidia usimamizi wa magugu ya uvamizi na kurudisha mimea ya asili katika maeneo yaliyochomwa. Ikiwa ardhi yako imeathiriwa na moto wa Grass Valley au Pearl Hill, tunaweza kuwa na fursa za kushiriki gharama kwako. Mifumo ya Mafunzo ya Moto wa Wild: FCCD imebuni Mifumo ya Moto wa Wild hapa chini ili kutoa rasilimali kwa watu binafsi na mashirika yanayopendezwa kujifunza zaidi juu ya kupunguza moto katika steppe ya shrub na jinsi jamii zinaweza kuwa na moto bora.