There will be a Desert Wildfire Workshop on Friday, August 22, 8:30 am-1:00 pm at the Yucca Valley Community Center.
This is a FREE event hosted by CAL FIRE, San Bernardino County Fire Dept, Town of Yucca Valley, and UC Cooperative extension. Refreshments!
House and Property: Featured speaker Steve Quarles explores fire susceptibility of various building materials, components, and assemblies with a Live Burn Demonstration. Steve is the University of California Building Materials Testing Expert and will burn deck assemblies, walls, fences, and more as part of a special day of presentations including local Fire Professionals. Find out what new California Fire Hazard Severity Zone ratings mean for living, remodeling, and building in the local desert.
Landscape: Firescaping basics including the arrangement of plants in the landscape, interactions between vegetation and structures, low water use landscapes, utilization of native plants, conservation of Joshua Trees, invasive weeds and more.
Environment: Special challenges of living in the “Wildland Urban Interface.” Variable climate, watershed values, increasing demands on water supplies, habitat in the human matrix, with presentations by local fire officials on local fire behavior and fire history in the valley.
Yucca Valley Community Center, 57090 Twentynine Palms Highway, Yucca Valley, CA. Call (909) 387-2242 for more information, or e-mail Kamcarthur@ucdavis.edu. Fire Demonstration information available here.
The State of California CAL FIRE Website also has current fire updates as well as extensive resources on protecting your home and property, including information on issues of Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI).
FOR MORE INFO ON THIS TOPIC: See the Plant Life and Invasive Mustard pages of the MBCA Website. Also, see more posts on Plant Life and Fire on this blog.
