Burn Pile Consolidation / Consolidación de pilotes quemados
Galbreath Wildlands Preserve
10:00 am
– 3:00 pm
Admission Fees: None
Register here / Regístrate aquí
Volunteers Needed! Join this hands-on opportunity to contribute to wildfire safety and learn more about good fire.
¡Necesitamos voluntarios! Únase a esta oportunidad práctica para contribuir a la seguridad contra incendios forestales y aprender más sobre el fuego bueno.
Create burn piles for future burning and learn about good fire. Consolidation activities will include hiking, collecting, cutting and piling downed wood. Contribute to wildfire mitigation in a wildland area, learn about good fire and how to mitigate catastrophic wildfires, support local preserves and universities. You will be collecting downed wood and organizing it into burn piles for future burning (hiking, carrying and organizing wood, such as sticks, branches, etc., and cutting it to fit into the burn piles). You will also get to learn about good fire!
**This event is a collaboration with FireSafe Sonoma and California Climate Action Corps
Leaders
- Melia Zimmerman, California Climate Action Corps Fellow, FireSafe Sonoma
- Cali Pearce, Preserves Manager, Center for Environmental Inquiry at Sonoma State University
- Andy Balestracci, Galbreath Logistics Manager, Center for Environmental Inquiry at Sonoma State University
Logistics
You will be asked to sign a waiver upon your arrival. All children and minors must be accompanied by a legal guardian or a group leader who can legally take on that role (e.g., Girl Scout group). No pets or smoking permitted.
For more information about event logistics (transportation, meeting spot, timing, what to bring, amount of hiking planned) contact Melia at [email protected].
How to Sign Up
Register through California Climate Action Corps at the link above. Each participant should register separately.
About the Center
Sonoma State University’s Center for Environmental Inquiry empowers university students to work with community members on the environmental challenges of the North Bay. Our mission is to create an engaged and environmentally ready society, one where all people have the skills to find solutions to the challenges facing our earth. SSU Preserves are open to everyone engaged in education or research. Reservations are required.