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Swanton Pacific Ranch's Fuels and Vegetation Management Education (FAVE) program educates professionals about wildfire fuel mitigation and vegetation management approaches with the goal of increasing the pace and scale of fuels and vegetation management to build a more sustainable and fire resilient landscape for every Californian.
Funded by CALFIRE's Healthy Forest Initiative and the California Climate Initiative, the FAVE program offers webinars and field-based workshops in every corner of California.
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Upcoming trainings:
March 24th, 2023: Discussion about burning issues
ecological stewardship and intentional fire
April 6th, 2023: Environmental review pathways to long-term success: prescribed fires
environmental review pathways to make prescribed fires successful
April 13th, 2023: CalVTP Field Training: Healdsburg Open Space/Community Fuels Reduction Project
How to increase the pace and scale of fuels reduction projects in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
May 4th, 2023: Shaded Fuel Break: Lessons Learned Post Wildfire in the San Vicente Redwoods
Land Conservation and fire resiliency in the Santa Cruz Mountains
May 18th, 2023: Fuels Treatments in the WUI: Sonoma Land Trust’s Laufenburg Ranch Preserve
vegetation management for fire fuel reduction and enhancing ecological health
May 20th, 2023: Fuels Treatments in the WUI: Occidental Arts and Ecology Center
whole systems approaches to increasing fire resilience while restoring ecosystems