Our New Class Begins February 25, 2023.Please Join Us by Applying on Our Website. There’s nothing quite like discovering kindred spirits at a neighborhood pub. Apparently, everyone had been forewarned and was happy about it – I had come to recruit for Nature, with… Continue Reading “Breathe Again – Become a Chaparral Naturalist”
Posted on September 26, 2022
by CA Chaparral Institute
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Due to a sudden influx of money, a federal agency that had once shown promise of becoming a protector of native chaparral habitat, has become a destroyer. The Los Padres National Forest plans to clear a quarter million acres of habitat, most of which… Continue Reading “Destroyer of Habitat – US Forest Service”
Category: Fire, Habitat ClearanceTags: Alisal Fire, Arctostaphylos refugioensis, chaparral, Christopher Stubbs, Ecological Restoration Plan, Gaviota, Kyle Kinports, Los Padres National Forest, Refugio manzanita, Santa Barbara, Whittier Fire
In Pursuit of Logic: Part IV of V Native plants and animals have a right to be left alone. Left alone, Nature is beautiful, as it has been for millions of years. Without us. Many are threatened by that independence. Long before hominids diverged… Continue Reading “Native plants and animals have a right to be left alone.”
Category: Fire, Forests, Habitat Clearance, Indigenous fire use, MisconceptionsTags: Appropriation, Bering land bridge, chaparral, chaparral wisdom, forest fires, Indian burning, Indigenous burning, John Muir, Native American fire use, prescribed fire, Racism, Scott Stephens, tobacco, UC Berkeley, unnatural, wildfire, wildfire science lab, woke science