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Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: All burn crew members, burn bosses, and burn plan authors Covers nesting bird survey protocols applicable to Santa Clara County habitats, identification of special-status plants and wildlife likely to occur in South Bay burn units, and... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: All PBA members, community volunteers, and interested public An introductory workshop on the history and ecology of cultural burning in California, the distinction between cultural burns and prescribed burns under current state law, and... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: Burn crew members and burn plan authors working in geologically sensitive areas A focused add-on module frequently paired with cultural resource awareness training. Prescribed burns in the foothills and coastal ranges of Santa Clara... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: Burn bosses, burn plan authors, SCCFSC staff, and landowners Provides a working overview of the key environmental and regulatory frameworks that intersect with prescribed burn planning in California. Topics include CEQA categorical... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: Burn crew members, burn plan authors, and land managers Teaches participants to read vegetation maps and understand fire behavior by fuel type, with a focus on plant communities common to Santa Clara County including annual grasslands,... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: Burn crew members, land managers, and post-burn monitoring leads Examines the relationship between prescribed fire and invasive species at the landscape scale, covering pre-burn conditions that predict invasive flushes, species commonly... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: Burn crew members, land managers, volunteers, and resource agency staff Provides hands-on instruction in basic post-burn biological response monitoring methods including vegetation recovery transects, photo point documentation, wildlife... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: Community volunteers, general burn crew members, and non-specialist participants A half-day community-facing workshop designed for burn crew members with no prior biology or environmental training. Participants learn to recognize active... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: All burn crew members, burn bosses, and PBA volunteers A foundational course covering what qualifies as a cultural resource in the California regulatory context, including archaeological sites, tribal cultural sites, historic... | |||||
Wildfire Fuel Mitigation Audience: Burn bosses, burn plan authors, SCCFSC staff, and landowners A compliance literacy course covering when cultural resource surveys are triggered under federal and state law, how the California Historical Resources Information System... |