Fire Response Clearinghouse
After the Glass and LNU Complex fires, Napa County landowners needed a clearinghouse of verified links, documents, news articles, and information to address critical land management needs. This page is a response to that need. Covered topics include reducing fire risk, fire plans, fire councils, evacuation preparedness, erosion control and other post-fire actions, smoke taint, and potential funding opportunities.
Additional suggestions for the clearinghouse page can be sent to Brandyn Balch, brandynb [at] fishfriendlyfarming.org.
Potential Funding Opportunities
- Fire Recovery Funds:
Our fire recovery funds are available for post-fire water quality improvement and habitat restoration projects. Project examples include repair of burned vineyard drainage pipes and road drainage culverts, repair of burned creek crossings, riparian revegetation, revegetation of oak woodland and conifer forest and repair of burned livestock exclusion fencing.
Contact: Leslie Scott, leslies [at] fishfriendlyfarming.org - Fire Prevention Grant Proposals:
Currently we are collecting information from landowners and managers on projects they would like us to include in a regional fire risk reduction grant proposal, which we will submit in the later part of 2021.
Contact: Laurel Marcus, laurelm [at] fishfriendlyfarming.org - FEMA Assistance deadlines:
https://readynapacounty.org/454/Upcoming-Deadlines
Reducing Fire Risk
- General
- UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources- Wildfire and Fuel Management:
https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8245.pdf - Pepperwood Preserve: Fire Mitigation and Forest Health Workshop for the Mayacamas to Berryessa Coast Range Region:
https://www.pepperwoodpreserve.org/2016/08/18/fire-mitigation-and-forest... - Fire Resistant Landscape:
https://www.readyforwildfire.org/prepare-for-wildfire/get-ready/fire-res... - Symposium - Understanding our New Wildfire Crisis: Can We Tame the Blazing Beast?
https://cccconfer.zoom.us/rec/play/Jj7nmoJnyo5M88KWS9o4YaEo5m6vcWY60VpU9... - Prescribed Burning
- Burning by the Day: Why cost/day is not a good metric for prescribed fire:
https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5e860856398c01242790df38/t/5e9920... - PBA-Community Based Burning (video):
https://youtu.be/1DIA5TC8Txw - California Prescribed Burn Association:
https://calpba.org/good-fire-alliance - Audubon Canyon Ranch Fire Forward Program:
https://egret.org/fire-forward
- Burning by the Day: Why cost/day is not a good metric for prescribed fire:
- Vegetation Management
- Larkfield Resilience Fund- It's Time- Vegetation Management (video):
https://youtu.be/7s_T9WQDSvk - Planned Herbivory in the Management of Wildfire Fuels:
https://www.intechopen.com/books/herbivory/planned-herbivory-in-the-mana... - Himalayan blackberry:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/02/b... - Scotch broom:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/02/s... - Yellow starthistle:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/02/y... - Stinkwort:
https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7pn9g1zj
- Larkfield Resilience Fund- It's Time- Vegetation Management (video):
- PG&E
- Wildfire mitigation program for 2021:
https://www.pge.com/en_US/safety/emergency-preparedness/natural-disaster... - PGE Napa County Wildfire Vegetation Management FAQ:
https://readynapacounty.org/DocumentCenter/View/433/PGE-Napa-County-Wild... - Whack and Stack-- PGE's Toppling of Trees Creates New Hazards:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/02/w...
- Wildfire mitigation program for 2021:
- In the news
- Napa County Farm Bureau Releases Fire Prevention Policy and Legislative Recommendations:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/n... - Newsom's budget calls for investment in prescribed fire:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/n... - Lack of grazing, prescribed burns adds fuel to California's wildfires say experts and stakeholders:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/l... - Weed Wackers, Goats, and Sheep help Land Trust of Napa with a Growing Problem:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/02/w... - Napa County Desperate for Wildfire Fixes Before Next Fire Season:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/n... - After this year's wildfires, California must spend to manage forest health:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/a...
- Napa County Farm Bureau Releases Fire Prevention Policy and Legislative Recommendations:
- Op-Ed
- I Cry for the Mountains and the Legacy Lost-- California Cattlemen's Association:
https://calcattlemen.org/2020/09/23/legacy/ - The West is Burning and it's Our Fault:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/west-burning-our-fault-david-willms/
- I Cry for the Mountains and the Legacy Lost-- California Cattlemen's Association:
Fire Plans, Councils, Evacuation Preparedness
- CAL FIRE Homepage:
https://www.fire.ca.gov/ - Napa County Wildfire Recovery:
https://readynapacounty.org/432/Wildfire-Recovery - Napa Communities Firewise Foundation:
https://napafirewise.org/ - Fire Safe Councils:
Community-specific preparedness and evacuation information.- Angwin: https://angwin.napafirewise.org/
- Atlas Peak (no website)
- Berryessa Highlands (no website)
- Calistoga: https://calistoga.napafirewise.org/
- Deer Park (no website)
- Diamond Mountain: https://www.diamondmountainfiresafe.org/
- Gordon Valley (no website)
- Mt. Veeder/Dry Creek: https://www.mountveederfiresafe.org/
- Silverado: https://www.silveradopropertyowners.org/firewise.html
- Soda Canyon: https://sodacanyonroad.org/home.php
- St. Helena: https://napafirewise.org/fire-safe-councils/st-helena-fsc/
After the Fire
Vineyard Erosion Control
The six goals of post-fire erosion control:
- Protect soil in the vineyard from erosion.
- Protect the vineyard from erosion on adjacent wildlands.
- Improve the quality of the runoff coming from your property into waterways.
- Maintain road drainage facilities.
- Address burned trees and buildings.
- Document your erosion control efforts.
Full text: https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/02/a...
Additional post-fire resources
- Watershed Emergency Response Team Reports (Glass and LNU):
https://www.countyofnapa.org/3013/Watershed-Emergency-Response-Team-Report - Watershed Emergency Response Team Glass Fire PowerPoint Slides:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/02/g... - After the Fire: Resources for Recovery
https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/detail/national/programs/?cid=... - California Air Resources Board- Technical Estimation of GHG Emissions of Wildfire and Forest Management Activities:
https://ww3.arb.ca.gov/cc/inventory/pubs/ghg_emissions_forest_management... - The Costs of Wildfire in California: An Independent Review of Scientific and Technical Information:
https://ccst.us/reports/the-costs-of-wildfire-in-california-2/ - Mortality and Resprouting in California Oak Woodlands Following Mixed-Severity Wildfire:
https://www.pepperwoodpreserve.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Ackerly201... - California Native Plant Society Fire Recovery Guide
https://www.cnps.org/give/priority-initiatives/fire-recovery - Sonoma County Forest Conservation Working Group
https://sonomaforests.org/ - Recovering from Wildfire: A Guide for California's Forest Landowners:
https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8386.pdf - Burned Oaks: Which Ones will Survive?
https://anrcatalog.ucanr.edu/pdf/8445.pdf - Sacramento Tree Foundation Acorn Guide:
https://www.sactree.com/acornharvest#:~:text=Every%20fall%20from%20late%.... - How to Grow an Oak Tree from an Acorn:
https://ca.audubon.org/conservation/how-plant-oak-tree-acorn
Smoke Taint
- A Vintage Lost?
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/a... - After hazy weeks, threat of smoke taint lingers over Napa Valley grape crop:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/a... - Wildfire impacts on CA grapes and wine:
https://wineserver.ucdavis.edu/industry-info/viticulture-resources/wildf... - Napa Wine Industry Organizations Describe Disaster Loss As Staggering:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/n... - Story of 2020: A challenging year, to say the least, for Napa Valley's wine industry:
https://www.fishfriendlyfarming.org/sites/default/files/files//2021/03/n...