CFSC Statewide Monthly Meeting
2024-07-17 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Click the link below to watch the webinar recording.
CFSC Statewide Meeting, July 17th, 2024

Please join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly statewide Check-ins and Networking Calls. CFSC’s monthly statewide meeting will be held on the third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 – 1:00 PM. For questions, please contact our Southern California Regional Coordinator, Britney Munoz
Britney Munoz, bmunoz@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Quarterly Statewide Meeting, April 2024
2024-05-22 12:00 - 13:00
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
These Quarterly Statewide Meetings are intended to allow Fire Safe Councils and Wildland Fire Prevention and Resilience Practitioners throughout California to connect and network with each other. Please join us on Zoom or call in to participate.
The Statewide Quarterly meetings occur every 3 months, on the fourth Wednesday at 12:00 PM PDT.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcO2rpzguE9ADr6CoDcVZ1wTclTd63w3v
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

SBCFSC Wildfire Evacuation and Survival Workshop
2024-05-18
May 18th, 2024, 10:00 am-1:00pm – Santa Barbara City College, Business Communication Forum
RSVP required, click HERE
The SBCFSC is putting on a Wildfire Evacuation and Survival Workshop at Santa Barbara City College on May 18th, 2024. This free event seeks to empower our community with the knowledge to make critical decisions in real life wildfire evacuations. During the workshop you will listen to experts speak on the different facets of evacuation and you will have access to several different resources. Our community has long asked for more in depth information regarding wildfire evacuation and we aim to provide just that.
At the end of the workshop there will be an evacuation supply giveaway. To earn raffle tickets take a picture of your current go bag or bring it to the event so we can see what you have in stock. There will also be an electronic scanner and USB flash drives on-site so you can digitize your important documents and take them home. Wildfire comes faster than you think and it’s much easier to grab a packed go bag and flash drive rather than assembling everything last minute.
The workshop is sponsored by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, UCSB’s Wildfire Prevention and Policy Lecture Series, and Noozhawk.
Please keep in mind this is a workshop rather than the family focused events we have hosted in the past.

Learn more here: https://sbfiresafecouncil.org/events/

CFSC Northern & Central CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2024-04-17 12:00 - 13:00
CLICK HERE to watch the 4/17/24 webinar recording.

Please join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls.
Brooke McAllister, CFSC Central Regional Coordinator is acting as interim Northern Regional Coordinator, due to the recent vacancy of the position. During this transition, CFSC is combining the Central & Northern Regional Monthly Meetings, as well as rescheduling the reoccurring date & time.
Moving forward the Northern/Central Meeting will be held on the third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkduyvqzIvGNDG-tRaH5rRRRdh7g-ANpma#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact our interim Northern California Regional Coordinator, Brooke McAllister
Brooke McAllister, bmcallister@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Northern & Central CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2024-03-20 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to watch the 3/20/2024 Northern/Central Regional Meeting video recording.
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Please join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls.
Brooke McAllister, CFSC Central Regional Coordinator is acting as interim Northern Regional Coordinator, due to the recent vacancy of the position. During this transition, CFSC is combining the Central & Northern Regional Monthly Meetings, as well as rescheduling the reoccurring date & time.
Moving forward the Northern/Central Meeting will be held on the third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkduyvqzIvGNDG-tRaH5rRRRdh7g-ANpma#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact our interim Northern California Regional Coordinator, Brooke McAllister
Brooke McAllister, bmcallister@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Southern CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2024-03-13 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to watch the 3/13/2024 Southern California Regional Meeting video recording.

Please come join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls. Southern California meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 12:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcude2rrzwrGtLwWPdfEpXlIjCctNj99Tfb
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact Britney Munoz, our Southern California Regional Coordinator: bmunoz@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Quarterly Statewide Meeting, February 2024
2024-02-28 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to view the 2/28/2024 CFSC Quarterly Statewide Meeting webinar recording.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
These Quarterly Statewide Meetings are intended to allow Fire Safe Councils and Wildland Fire Prevention and Resilience Practitioners throughout California to connect and network with each other. Please join us on Zoom or call in to participate.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcO2rpzguE9ADr6CoDcVZ1wTclTd63w3v
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

CFSC Northern & Central CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2024-02-21 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to watch the 2/21/2024 Northern/Central Regional Meeting video recording.

Please join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls.
Brooke McAllister, CFSC Central Regional Coordinator is acting as interim Northern Regional Coordinator, due to the recent vacancy of the position. During this transition, CFSC is combining the Central & Northern Regional Monthly Meetings, as well as rescheduling the reoccurring date & time.
Moving forward the Northern/Central Meeting will be held on the third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkduyvqzIvGNDG-tRaH5rRRRdh7g-ANpma#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact our interim Northern California Regional Coordinator, Brooke McAllister
Brooke McAllister, bmcallister@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Southern CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2024-02-14 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to watch the 2/14/2-24 Southern California Regional Meeting video recording.

Please come join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls. Southern California meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 12:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcude2rrzwrGtLwWPdfEpXlIjCctNj99Tfb
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact Britney Munoz, our Southern California Regional Coordinator: bmunoz@cafiresafecouncil.org

23/24 State Fire Capacity (SFC) Grants Program Application Webinar
2024-02-12 09:30 - 12:30
The California Fire Safe Council (CFSC) announces the availability of approximately $1,575,000 in grant funds to support hazardous fuels reduction, community wildfire prevention planning, and education and mitigation activities in California and the Tahoe region of Nevada. Funding for the 23/24 State Fire Capacity (SFC) Grants Program is provided through master grants to CFSC by the Cooperative Fire Program of the U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Department of Agriculture, Pacific Southwest Region.
Grant applications are available starting February 1, 2024. Completed applications are due on March 15, 2024.
Webinars will be held on February 5, 2024, and February 12, 2024, at 9:30 AM. The webinars will cover everything necessary to equip you with the tools to apply on time and correctly. These topics include federal grant basics, the ZoomGrants online application, and what to expect as the application process continues. Please select a link to sign up for one of the webinars:
Monday, February 5th, 2024 at 9:30 AM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZckdemopzItE9WTSsz1MPXClDnRc16whMx9
Monday, February 12th, 2024 at 9:30 AM
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwkduGsqTwjH9Lq_6om_F8GR0z53WXpO2ub
For more information about this opportunity, please contact Senior Grant Specialist Morgan Galliano lgalliano@cafiresafecouncil.org or Staff Grant Specialist Thomas Shumaker tshumaker@cafiresafecouncil.org.

Central California Outreach Workshop
2024-02-07 14:00 - 15:00 | Zoom, McClellan, CA, 95652, United States

CFSC Southern CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2024-01-10 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to view the video recording from CFSC’s Southern California Regional Monthly Meeting on January 10, 2024.

Please come join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls. Southern California meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 12:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcude2rrzwrGtLwWPdfEpXlIjCctNj99Tfb
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact Britney Munoz, our Southern California Regional Coordinator: bmunoz@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Northern & Central CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2023-12-20 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to view the video recording from CFSC’s Northern/Central California Regional Monthly Meeting on December 20, 2023.

Please join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls.
Brooke McAllister, CFSC Central Regional Coordinator is acting as interim Northern Regional Coordinator, due to the recent vacancy of the position. During this transition, CFSC is combining the Central & Northern Regional Monthly Meetings, as well as rescheduling the reoccurring date & time.
Moving forward the Northern/Central Meeting will be held on the third Wednesday of each month from 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkduyvqzIvGNDG-tRaH5rRRRdh7g-ANpma#/registration
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact our interim Northern California Regional Coordinator, Brooke McAllister
Brooke McAllister, bmcallister@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Southern CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2023-12-13 12:00 - 13:00
Click here to view the video recording from CFSC’s Southern California Regional Monthly Meeting on December 13, 2023.

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM

Please come join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls. Southern California meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 12:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcude2rrzwrGtLwWPdfEpXlIjCctNj99Tfb
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact Britney Munoz, our Southern California Regional Coordinator: bmunoz@cafiresafecouncil.org

CARCD 78th Annual Conference
2023-12-13 - 2023-12-15
“California Association of Resource Conservation Districts (CARCD) continues the tradition of bringing together representatives from federal and state agencies, non-profits, private industries, farming communities, and resource conservation districts (RCDs) to share knowledge, build partnerships, and address urgent natural resource challenges. Experts will present and engage in conversations on climate-smart agriculture, the tree mortality crisis, community fire resilience, sustainable groundwater management, watershed health, social equity in conservation, and wildlife preservation.”

This year’s conference will be held December 13-15, 2023 at the DoubleTree Hilton, Sacramento.
Learn more at: https://carcd.org/conferences/carcd-77th-annual-conference/

Webinar - Forest Health Grants and Forest Practice Documents: Can they be used together to create a more resilient landscape?
2023-12-12
What: Forest Health Grants and Forest Practice Documents: Can they be used together to create a more resilient landscape?
Webinar Date: Tuesday, December 12, 2023, 9-11:30 a.m.
Learn about Forest Health Grants and Forest Practice Documents from representatives at CAL FIRE, Crook Logging Inc, Auten Resource Consulting, and the Soquel Demonstration State Forest. Participants will increase their knowledge of how to utilize forest health grant funds, THPs, and other forest practice documents to accomplish forest health projects.
Learn more & register here: https://spranch.calpoly.edu/forest-health-grants-and-forest-practice-documents-can-they-be-used-together-create-more-resilient

Using the CalVTP: New Implementation Tools and Lessons Learned
2023-12-07
Webinar Date: Thursday, December 7, 10:00 a.m. – 12:05 p.m.
Learn more & register here: https://spranch.calpoly.edu/using-calvtp-new-implementation-tools-and-lessons-learned-0
This webinar will share insights about the latest trends, tips, and practices for agencies, fire safe councils, and landowners seeking to use the California Vegetation Treatment Program (CalVTP) to implement vegetation treatments. The panel consists of CAL FIRE staff from Sacramento headquarters and the San Luis Obispo Unit and consultants who helped to develop and implement the CalVTP Program Environmental Impact Report (Program EIR).

10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
2023-12-04 - 2023-12-08
The 10th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress will be held in Monterey, California December 4-8, 2023. This event will include workshops, field trips, and 3 full days of presentations, discussion groups, and networking opportunities around the theme, Igniting Connections: Celebrating our fire family across generations, cultures, and disciplines.
Learn more here: https://afefirecongress.org

2023 Santa Barbara TREX
2023-11-11 - 2023-11-18

CFSC Southern CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2023-11-08 12:00 - 13:00
UPDATE: Thank you for attending CFSC’s Southern California Regional Monthly Meeting on November 8, 2023. You can click here to view the Zoom video recording from this meeting.

Please come join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls. Southern California meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 12:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcude2rrzwrGtLwWPdfEpXlIjCctNj99Tfb
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact Britney Munoz, our Southern California Regional Coordinator: bmunoz@cafiresafecouncil.org

CFSC Central CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2023-11-01 14:00 - 15:00
UPDATE: Thank you for attending CFSC’s Central California Regional Monthly Meeting on November 1, 2023. You can view the Zoom video recording from this meeting here.

Please come join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls. Central California meets on the first Wednesday of each month at 2:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkduyvqzIvGNDG-tRaH5rRRRdh7g-ANpma
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact Brooke McAllister, our Central California Regional Coordinator: bmcallister@cafiresafecouncil.org

CalVTP Field Training: Sierra Foothills, Vista Del Rio Project
2023-11-01
Wednesday, November 1st, 2023, 1:00pm – 5:00pm
Learn more & register here: https://spranch.calpoly.edu/calvtp-field-training-sierra-foothills-vista-del-rio-project
This is an opportunity to learn about a fuel reduction project at Vista Del Rio in Oakhurst, California. Participants will increase their understanding of how CALFIRE used the CalVTP at Vista Del Rio to facilitate vegetation management and fuels reduction.
Participants will complete a field treatment tour of the project area, learning about the different treatment methods used and why they were chosen. Sebastien Cordier, Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unit Environmental Scientist at CAL FIRE, and Brian Mattos, Madera-Mariposa-Merced Unit Forester at CAL FIRE, will discuss the need for this project, how the treatment zones were selected, and the successes as well as the shortcomings that happened while implementing this project.

Fuels Treatments in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI): Lessons learned from the San Mateo County Parks Project
2023-10-27
What: Fuels Treatments in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI): Lessons learned from the San Mateo County Parks Project
Field Training Date: Friday, October 27, 2023, 10 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Location: Woodside, CA
Learn about a collaborative forest health and fuel reduction project at Huddart and Wunderlich County Parks, in Silicon Valley’s wildland-urban interface (WUI). Participants will increase their understanding of how San Mateo County Parks fuels reduction projects improve forest health and community wildfire resiliency in the urban wildland interface.
Learn more & register here: https://spranch.calpoly.edu/field-training-fuels-treatments-wildland-urban-interface-wui-lessons-learned-san-mateo

CFSC Northern CA Regional Monthly Meeting
2023-10-26 12:00 - 13:00
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Please come join California Fire Safe Council Regional Coordinators during their monthly regional Check-ins and Networking Calls. Northern California meets on the fourth Thursday of each month at 12:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZwsdO2gqDMqHtFfuppXAQ5OxDF9g6fHwqE9
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
For questions, please contact our Northern California Regional Coordinator, Mike Wilson.
Mike Wilson, mwilson@cafiresafecouncil.org

SAF National Convention
2023-10-25 - 2023-10-28
Society of American Foresters National Convention / Sacramento, CA
Forestry: It’s in Our DNA
The theme, “Forestry: It’s in Our DNA,” references both the proud legacy of forestry and the ongoing challenges and opportunities that foresters and natural resources professionals face. Forestry and what it means to be a forester is multi-faceted with many backgrounds, disciplines, and experiences shaping our profession’s past, present, and future. SAF2023 will bring together novel science and on-the-ground management techniques, while focusing on how to better communicate our passion to the public, and building a community that can tackle impacts from a changing climate.
Location: SAF Convention events will be held at the SAFE Credit Union Convention Center (1401 K St, Sacramento, CA 95814)
Learn more here: https://eforester.org/safconvention2023.

California Wildfire Conference
2023-10-24 - 2023-10-26
https://coastal-quest.idloom.events/californiawildfireconference
Coastal Quest, in partnership with Ventura County Wildfire Collaborative, is proud to present the first California Wildfire Conference. This three-day exchange will bring together a diverse community of wildfire practitioners to focus on understanding, preventing, and recovering from wildfires. The conference will be held from October 24-26, 2023, in Ventura County at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
Participants are drawn from California, Western US States, and globally where wildfire and communities interface. Attendees include local and national government agencies/leaders, natural resource managers/landowners, California Tribes, community leaders/organizations, and multi-sectoral collaboratives/councils.
We invite Firewise/Firesafe Councils and Collaboratives who are developing wildfire adaptation and mitigation plans and implementing solutions. This event will be open to 200 in-person attendees, and select sessions will be recorded and shared after the conference.

CFSC Quarterly Statewide Meeting, October 2023
2023-10-18
Watch the video recording from CFSC’s October 2023 Quarterly Statewide Meeting on our YouTube Channel here: https://youtu.be/TP84spCNm-E

12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
These Quarterly Statewide Meetings are intended to allow Fire Safe Councils and Wildland Fire Prevention and Resilience Practitioners throughout California to connect and network with each other. Please join us on Zoom or call in to participate.
The Statewide Quarterly meetings occur every 3 months, on the third Wednesday at 12:00 PM.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctcO2rpzguE9ADr6CoDcVZ1wTclTd63w3v
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Webinar - Project Development and Regulatory Sequencing for Wildfire Grants
2023-10-17
What: Project Development and Regulatory Sequencing for Wildfire Grants
Webinar Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 9 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Learn about effective approaches to CAL FIRE and other public funding grants for fuels reduction projects from representatives at Rincon Consultants, CAL FIRE, and the San Luis Obispo County Fire Safe Council. Participants will increase their understanding of project development and regulatory sequencing as it applies to grant funded fuels reduction projects in California.
Learn more & register here: https://spranch.calpoly.edu/project-development-and-regulatory-sequencing-wildfire-grants

West Contra Costa FSC: Open House at Fire Station #63
2023-10-14

Fuels Treatments in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI): Lessons Learned from the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team
2023-10-13
What: Fuels Treatments in the Wildland Urban Interface (WUI): Lessons Learned from the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team
Field Training Date: Friday, October 13, 2023, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: South Lake Tahoe, CA
Field Training Date: Friday, October 13, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.
Join the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team and Cal Poly’s Fuels and Vegetation Education Program for a field-based training that spans multiple fires in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Participants will learn how representatives of Tahoe Basin fire agencies worked together to form the Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team with the goal of protecting lives, property, and the environment within the Lake Tahoe Basin from wildfire by implementing prioritized fuels reduction projects and engaging the public in becoming a Fire Adapted Community.
Learn more & register here: https://spranch.calpoly.edu/field-training-fuels-treatments-wildland-urban-interface-wui-lessons-learned-tahoe-fire-and-fuels
