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Workshop Therapy – Forging a Butte Creek Wild Chinook Salmon

July 28, 2022March 9, 2022 by Zeke Lunder

What does a metalwork have to do with wildfire? It takes a lot of welding and wrenching to run a mobile wildfire mapping operation, and I built up a pretty good shop during the years we started and ran Deer Creek Resources. When I sold DCR to Firestorm, in 2017, I kept the shop. The … Read more

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Wildfire intelligence and education. 25 years in wildland and prescribed fire. Founder @DeerCrResources Fire is the best teacher. Intel from public sources.

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22 Jan 1617021087463919618

Just finished editing a short video from this May, burning at the Chico Airport with the @ChicoFD. Deputy Chief Chris Zinko talks about the reasons we were burning, and how the department and citizens benefit from the use of #GoodFire.
#PrescribedFire #ChicoCa

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21 Jan 1616640349879046144

First cloud-free #Sentinel2 satellite images in a month dropped yesterday. Great to check out snow levels, reservoirs, and wet wet wet in the Butte Basin/Lower Sacramento River. First image compares Colusa area now vs 12/15/2022. #Geography #RemoteSensing #CaWx #CaStorm 1/x

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19 Jan 1615956184326111233

Getting strategic over maps with folks from Oregon State, 3 different Cal Fire units, 3 ranger districts, 2 RCDs, 2 firesafe councils, and one National Park. We were talking about PODs (Potential Operational Deliniations). We'll be talking more about PODs on The Lookout soon.

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We were invited to attend a wildfire pre-planning workshop with @CAL_FIRE, @LassenNF and @LassenNPS this week. We shared satellite imagery we created showing effects of #DixieFire and planning work we've done for @SierraInst. #forestry #WildfireCommunication #RemoteSensing

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17 Jan 1615143859826364416

Mineral, Childs Meadows, SW entrance to Lassen Park. Chester on far left. Western boundary of #DixieFire was defined by a firing operation on Highway 89. Lower severity burn in center was flanking fire in days following major south>north push past Chester.

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