Check out the Hills For Everyone July E-Newsletter which covers new hours at the Discovery Center, red flag warnings, goats in the Puente Hills, and Leave No Trace principles. View the E-Newsletter.
This is an important article to carefully read and slowly absorb about fires (especially the myths about forest fires versus chaparral fires). Fuel reduction has been the hot topic to “keep communities safe,” but in reality, the science is showing fires in these logged areas are actually burning hotter and more intensely. Spend some quality time reading this. Many thanks to Chad Hanson with the John Muir Project for his years of fire science work. View the article in Governing.
One step the City of Anaheim is taking to reduce the risk of fires is using goats to remove vegetation. The City of Laguna Beach has been doing this for years and one benefit of using goats is that they can climb where we can’t and they eat about 12 pounds of biomass a day! View the Orange County Register article.