REGISTRATION CLOSED.

Hands-on learning about wildfire, firewise landscapes, fire fighting, and fire careers.

Target Age: teens (13-18) in Sonoma, Napa, and Marin counties

Registration Deadline: Three days before each workshop (see below).

Workshop Dates and Locations (program content is duplicated)

Session 1: Saturday, April 1, 9:00am-2:00pm
Register by March 29 [30 seats].
Pepperwood Preserve, 2130 Pepperwood Preserve Road, Santa Rosa, CA 95404 (Sonoma County).
Participants need to sign (or their parents for minors) the Pepperwood liability waiver: https://pepperwood.tfaforms.net/6
(CANCELED - SELECT ANOTHER DATE) Session 2: Saturday, April 15, 9:00am-2:00pm
Register by April 12 [30 seats].
Pacific Union College Demonstration & Experiment Forest, 405 Las Posadas Road, Angwin, CA (Napa County)
Session 3: Saturday, April 22, 9:00am-2:00pm
Register by April 19 [30 seats].
Marin Wildfire Prevention Authority, 1600 Los Gamos Drive, San Rafael, CA 94903 (Marin County).

Please bring a water bottle and sack lunch.

Parents are welcome to stay and observe.

Safety Information

AGENDA

8:30am - 9:00am - Arrival

9:00am - 11:45am Hands-on Activities

Plant Adaptations/Identification: Learn that trees have characteristics unique to each species and these can be used to identify them. These characteristics can also be adaptations for a fire ecosystem.
Fire History: Introduce the idea that people have been interacting with fire in California for a long time. Provide a base understanding that many tribes used fire as a tool for landscape management.
Fire 101: Increase students’ understanding of the fire triangle through experimentally removing different parts of the triangle and build on an understanding of how heat from a fire travel (radiant vs convection)
Burn Board Models: Increases students’ understanding of wildland fire behavior in oak woodlands and other kinds of plant communities
Preparedness: Familiarize students with Firewise guidelines, go bags, communication and evacuation planning, fire resistant structures and defensible space.

11:45am - 12:15pm - Lunch

12:15 pm - 1:45pm - Outdoor Activities varies by site location (e.g., nature hike, plant identification, preparedness activities).

1:45pm - 2:00pm - Regroup & Evaluation

2:00pm - Depart

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Presenters:

Tori Norville, Fire Science Advisor, Sonoma, Marin, and Napa Counties
Sophia Porter, Fire-Smart Landscaping Science and Education Specialist, Marin County
Hannah Bird, Community Educator, Hopland Research & Extension Center
Steven Worker, 4-H Youth Development Advisor, Marin, Sonoma, and Napa Counties
Suzanne Amaral, Napa 4-H Program Coordinator

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