New Resource Alert!
Sonoma Ecology Center, Pepperwood Preserve and Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, along with a host of other contributors, have joined forces to create an in-depth guide to tending the land for fire resilience in Sonoma County.
The guide seeks to address a variety of goals including developing fire resilience, conserving water, enhancing wildlife habitat and more. It is easily accessible and provides a three step process on how to carry out these goals through learning, planning and doing the work.
Learn: Observe & Adapt – Tending the Land offers the educational background needed for stewardship. To understand what the land needs, we must know what the land has already.
Plan: Goals & Design – Tending the Land has produced a step-by-step guide for stewardship goal planning. Once we understand the land’s ecological history, the next step is to come up with concrete goals and plans.
Do: Implement & Maintain – Tending the Land provides resources on a variety of vegetation management practices. Each approach offers centers around the “why” of the practice.
Land Acknowledgment: Tending the Land also references and gives credit to Indigenous land stewardship practices and offers resources in regards to this. Sonoma County is located on the unceded land of the Kashia Pomo, Southern Pomo, Coast Miwok and Wappo people.
Visit the website here for an excellent guide to land stewardship in Sonoma County!
