# Event Details - **Event Name**: Fire, Fuel Treatment Impacts, and Native Plants - **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 10:00 am – Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 11:30 am - **Event Description**: Landscape versus Species approaches to Sierra Nevada StewardshipAbout this EventJoin us to learn about fire ecology and history of the Sierra Nevada, the types of fuel treatments being used in our region, and pros and cons of these treatments on July 19, 2025 at the Madelyn Helling Library’s Gene Albaugh Community Room at 10:00am. Jeff will also discuss why certain treatment decisions are made, how to maximize landscape resilience while considering native species protection, and where these goals may converge or diverge.Forests of the Sierra Nevada mountains were forged in fire; fire adapted species evolved to thrive on low-intensity, high-frequency fire to clear gaps for germination and cycle soil nutrients. A century of fire suppression has decoupled our forests from this cycle, allowing fire fuel loads to build to a level that greatly increases the likelihood of extreme fire behavior. With increasing buildout of human environments in the Wildland Urban Interface (the boundary between the built and natural environment), these extreme fires threaten human resources, but they also represent departures from what native species are adapted and resilient to. This has resulted in a greater “pace and scale” of fuel “treatments” across the Sierra. The goal of fuel treatment is often to “reset” the clock on our natural fire return interval – decreasing fuel load and time between fires – to invite low severity to restore the system. However, there are mixed opinions on fuel treatment efficacy, need for maintenance, and tradeoffs in terms of understory species and general ecological benefit.Location and RegistrationThis free program, sponsored by the California Native Plant Society’s local Redbud Chapter, will be Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 10:00 a.m. in the Gene Albaugh Community Room at the Madelyn Helling Library at 980 Helling Way, Nevada City.About the PresenterJeff is a lifelong Californian, having spent most of his early years exploring and recreating in the Sierra Nevada. He is a forest ecologist, with a focus on drought, tree physiology, tree carbon use, and disturbance ecology. He did his undergraduate education and master’s research at CSU Chico, where he studied the impacts of forest treatments on soil properties and forest growth, and did his thesis research on the impacts of disturbances such as volcanic eruption and flooding on forest structure in Papua New Guinea. He has since worked in various capacities, including with the USGS doing high elevation botanical and amphibian surveys in Yosemite and Sequoia National Parks and two stints with Sierra Streams Institute; one as an AmeriCorps member in 2012-2014 doing field ecology and now as Executive Director. After his PhD research on physiological drivers of drought-induced mortality in Sierra Nevada conifers, he returned to Sierra Streams to work on projects integrating forest health into watershed management and restoration. His current work at Sierra Streams focuses on connecting people to science, ensuring sound and accurate scientific information is available to and interpretable by the community, and guiding our research and management projects ranging from climate change impacts on high elevation streams to forest and riparian vegetation management. https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events10/banners/7b88f010-4e1f-11f0-a75f-ad90100ea0f1-rimg-w740-h740-dc181717-gmir.jpg - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/nevada-city/fire-fuel-treatment-impacts-and-native-plants/100001391820415329 - **Event Categories**: health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket URL**: https://consumer.pxf.io/c/1339408/3151484/39691?partnerpropertyid=1191892&MediaPartnerPropertyId=1191892&svlink=14105511&level=1&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.eventbrite.com%2Fe%2Ffire-fuel-treatment-impacts-and-native-plants-tickets-1391820415329 - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Nevada City - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Nevada County Madelyn Helling Library - **lat**: 39.2697728 - **long**: -121.024032 - **full address**: Nevada County Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City, United States ## Event Organizer details - **affiliate_id**: 10 - **organizer**: Monica Finn & Chris Catlin, CNPS Redbud Chapter (https://allevents.in/org/monica-finn-and-chris-catlin-cnps-redbud-chapter/25482481) ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: banner - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/4ba41d827208356d469f6c15c2fbd35720c212ffe3d9eacd46186eb52e9a7676-rimg-w1200-h675-dc635d5b-gmir.jpg?v=1750455768 - **Alt text**: thumbnail - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/c181063a30a7231b063cbb0fafafa2e00c36101f03f296a11e826bf0ffe3b143-rimg-w400-h400-dc4b4845-gmir.jpg?v=1750455768 ## FAQs - **Q**: When is the event happening? - **A:** Sat, 19 Jul, 2025 at 10:00 am - **Q**: Where is the event happening? - **A:** Nevada County Madelyn Helling Library, 980 Helling Way, Nevada City, United States - **Q**: What is the ticket price? - **A:** starting from 0 up to 0 USD - **Q**: Who is organizing the event? - **A:** Monica Finn & Chris Catlin, CNPS Redbud Chapter - **Q**: What type of event is this? - **A:** health-wellness - **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Fire, Fuel Treatment Impacts, and Native Plants ? - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents. ## Structured Data (JSON-LD) ```json [ { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@type": "Event", "name": "Fire, Fuel Treatment Impacts, and Native Plants", "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events7/banners/4ba41d827208356d469f6c15c2fbd35720c212ffe3d9eacd46186eb52e9a7676-rimg-w1200-h675-dc635d5b-gmir.jpg?v=1750455768", "startDate": "2025-07-19", "endDate": "2025-07-19", "url": "https://allevents.in/nevada-city/fire-fuel-treatment-impacts-and-native-plants/100001391820415329", "location": { "@type": "Place", "name": "Nevada County Madelyn Helling Library", "address": { "@type": "PostalAddress", "streetAddress": "980 Helling Way", "postalCode": "95959", "addressLocality": "Nevada City", "addressRegion": "CA", "addressCountry": "US" }, "geo": { "@type": "GeoCoordinates", "latitude": "39.2697728", "longitude": "-121.024032" } }, "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode", "description": "Landscape versus Species approaches to Sierra Nevada Stewardship", "offers": [ { "@type": "AggregateOffer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "2025-07-19", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "lowPrice": "0.00", "highPrice": "0.00", "price": "0.00", "url": "https://allevents.in/nevada-city/fire-fuel-treatment-impacts-and-native-plants/100001391820415329" }, { "@type": "Offer", "availability": "https://schema.org/InStock", "priceCurrency": "USD", "availabilityStarts": "2026-04-04", "availabilityEnds": "", "validFrom": "2026-04-04", "url": "https://allevents.in/nevada-city/fire-fuel-treatment-impacts-and-native-plants/100001391820415329", "price": 0, "name": "General Admission" } ], "organizer": [ { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Monica Finn & Chris Catlin CNPS Redbud Chapter", "url": "https://allevents.in/org/monica-finn-and-chris-catlin-cnps-redbud-chapter/25482481", "description": "Redbud Chapter of the California Native Plant Societyour mission\r:Our mission is to preserve and promote the native plants of Placer and Nevada \rCounties and their natural habitats, through education, stewardship, gardening, \radvocacy, and science.our vision:We envision a future in which all people value native plants, native plant diversity \rflourishes, and all people have access to native plants and play a vital role in their\r conservation." } ] } ] ```