Searching for the Gold Spot: The Wild After Wildfire – Monthly General Meeting

By Logan Wiedenhoffer | June 19, 2019 |

California has been center stage for the massive wildfires now all too common in America’s West. Research has intensified as scientists and firefighters seek more effective ways to both prevent and mitigate the effects of these “super blazes” primed by a warmer world. Searching for the Gold Spot documents the remarkable return of life in…

Nature’s Path Back

By Tina Mitchell | May 24, 2019 |

Wildfire and wildlife—what’s the first image that comes to your mind? I’m 7 years old, sitting in a darkened movie theater, watching the fire scene in the Disney animated classic Bambi. Birds, squirrels, rabbits, raccoons, our protagonist deer all flee through scorching embers, swirling smoke, and crashing, flaming branches. That scene seemed to last for…