Fire crews are working on prescribed burns in Yosemite Valley through the first week in November. Burns will be taking place south of Southside Drive near the El Capitan Crossover and between Southside Drive and the Four Mile trailhead. Therefore, the Valley Loop Trail will be closed from the Four Mile trailhead to the […]
CSERC’s Executive Director John Buckley was featured in a guest opinion piece in the Modesto Bee. He expressed the importance of reaching middle ground in forest management practices by focusing on areas of overlapping agreement and how CSERC has partnered with other stakeholders to successfully plan and implement balanced, appropriate forest treatments on our local […]
This article shows how prescribed burns and forest treatments curbed or slowed the growth of the Caldor Fire. https://www.sfchronicle.com/projects/2021/caldor-fire-prescribed-burn/ Image to the right: CNN
By CSERC Executive Director John Buckley More than two weeks before the date I planned to visit Yosemite National Park, I carefully worked through the Recreation.gov website to purchase a day-use reservation ticket. Each reservation is valid for three days, which as it turned out was helpful for me. I ended […]
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This link below accesses an August 11th Calaveras Public Access TV interview done with CSERC director John Buckley about the pressing topics of climate change, devastating wildfires, forest management, drought impacts, and potential solutions to these significant conservation problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckYU_OoWwBs&list=PLos23xECbda86QA3LeaQh8768IbnyiI5d&index=1
California has 20 million acres that need fuel reduction – like tree thinning and prescribed burning. California State and the Forest Service have pledged to treat 1 million acres a year by 2025, but last year they did less than ? of that. Fire managers are often unable to plan and implement prescribed burns because […]
More ‘good fire’ could help California control future catastrophes Wildfire is inevitable. But prescribed burning—careful, intentionally set fire—could help manage the risks. BY ALEJANDRA BORUNDA PUBLISHED JULY 27, 2021 www.nationalgeographic.com GEORGETOWN, CALIFORNIA Rob York walks calmly through the quiet pines deep in California’s Sierra Nevada foothills, trailing a mix of kerosene and gas from a […]
This short video shows how prescribed fire is being strategically applied in conifer forests in Montana. The lower elevation conifer forests there are very similar to the conditions of low and mid-elevation forests here in the Northern Yosemite region. Carefully managed fire can be an important tool here, as well. CHECK OUT THIS EXCELLENT VIDEO: […]
As you probably know by now, a trip to Yosemite National Park is not the same as it was in 2019, or even 2020. Covid has changed the way the Park operates. It’s important to be up to date about when you can and can’t go, what facilities are and are not open, […]