Determining burn severity is also helpful when making decisions about controlling erosion and what might need to be done to recover the soil if burn severity is high. More Master Gardener columns:. How to protect tomatoes from fall frost. These succulents grow best in North State's cold winters, hot summers. Help North State pollinators: Turn your garden into a California wildflower wonderland.
It will provide you with in-depth information about mitigating against erosion to protect your soil from winter rains. It also includes advice on how to avoid introducing invasive species of plants that may cause increased fire danger in future years. The Shasta Master Gardeners Program can be reached by phone at or email mastergardener shastacollege.
The gardener office is staffed by volunteers trained by the University of California to answer gardeners' questions using information based on scientific research. This is because most wildfires are started by humans. It is also generally accepted that the threat of catastrophic fires is higher today than it has ever been. The primary reason for this is that after a years of very successful fire suppression, the amount of fuels in the landscape is much higher than it was when periodic, low intensity fires regularly burned.
Well before its time, he advocated controlled or prescribed fire to help prevent catastrophic wild fire. At the time, his advocacy met with considerable resistance from professional foresters and the public.
However, his practices of prescribed burning have become the official protection strategy for federal and state agencies with the responsibility for protecting forests and rangelands.
Occasionally a tree is burned completely to the ground, but with the extensive root system still intact. The next year multiple shoots emerge like a flock of woody phoenixes rising from the ashes. Scrub jays and western gray squirrels are continually caching acorns throughout my yard in downtown Santa Rosa. Fortunately, the critters neglect to eat many of them, so the seeds are ready and waiting to sprout when conditions are ideal. The druids were the priestly class of the ancient Celts.
Count me as one of them, Alma! Count me in as a student and a steward of these beautiful trees. Send your questions to atn baynature. Santa Rosa-based naturalist Michael Ellis leads nature trips throughout the world with Footloose Forays footlooseforays. Every story from Bay Nature magazine is the product of a team of people dedicated to connecting our readers to the world around them and increasing environmental literacy.
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