Wildfire risk is real, but your yard doesn’t have to be all gravel and bare dirt. Learn how to create a landscape that slows fire, shelters wildlife, and still feels like a place you want to spend time in.
Join the authors of Firescaping Your Home: A Manual for Readiness in Wildfire Country for simple, effective landscaping strategies to help protect your home from wildfire. The session also includes a practical discussion on fire insurance challenges in wildfire-prone areas.
Adrienne Edwards, PhD, is a botanist, plant ecologist, garden designer, and environmental consultant. She began her botanical odyssey in the Southeast, spent time botanizing in the Midwest, and since 2006 has lived and worked in northern California. With over 35 years of experience teaching, researching, and consulting, plants continue to inspire her passion. She is currently a faculty lecturer at California State University, Chico.
Rachel Schleiger, MS, is a plant ecologist who specializes in restoration ecology. She has lived in the Sierra Nevada Foothills most of her life. Her family and property survived the most deadly and destructive Western fire on record, the 2018 Camp Fire. Over the last 3 years she has developed a curriculum to teach about wildfire, both in-person and online through Butte College. She is currently a faculty lecturer at both Butte College and California State University, Chico.
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