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Organized Proposal Session

It burned. Now what?

5 - Working with Small Non-industrial Private Forest Landowners to Restore Forests after Wildfire in California

Friday, October 27, 2023
5:00pm - 5:15pm PST
Location: A4

    Speaker(s)

  • Susie Kocher, MS, RPF (she/her/hers)

    Forestry Advisor
    University of California Cooperative Extension
    South Lake Tahoe, California, United States

    • Co-author(s)

  • KR

    Katie Reidy, MA

    Post-fire Forest Resilience Academic Coordinator
    University of California Cooperative Extension

Forest landowners affected by wildfire overwhelmingly want to reforest, yet often don't have the knowledge, connections, funding and labor source to conduct complex reforestation actions on their landscape, especially when they have lost a home. This talk describes treatment barriers and outreach and education strategies to overcome them.

Learning Objectives:

  • understand the scope of the post-fire forest resilience challenge on NIPF land in California
  • describe strategies to assist NIPF landowners with post-fire concerns
  • understand outcomes from a California post-fire forest resilence educational program conducted around the state.