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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

Structure Losses in the Camp Fire

July 1, 2022November 21, 2021 by Zeke Lunder

A Conversation with Eric Knapp and Yana Valachovic Eric Knapp, of the US Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station, and Yana Valachovic, from UC Cooperative Extension, came by The Lookout in November to talk with me about their new paper on home losses in the Camp Fire. Our talk is live on Amanda Monthei’s Life … Read more

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The @LassenNF wants you to know it's a higher priority to send a 20-person crew into the middle of a lavafield to put out a single tree with zero potential for spread than use them to burn 40 or 50 acres during the middle of an amazing late-spring prescribed fire window.

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The Lassen Hot Shots on 6/8/23 climbing through lava rocks working on the H-1 fire area
No growth/new fires were found. There are 2 fires not yet called out on LNF: Deadhorse, 1 acre on the Almanor RD & H-1, 1/10th acre on Hat Creek RD
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Had a great time working alongside photojournalist @AndriTambunan on yesterday's burn. Check out his work! https://www.andritambunan.com/portfolio/C0000gu.mTA9jYMs/G0000qcMMtEidHg0

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Here's a first look at footage I shot on the Chico Airport burn yesterday. Really happy with the new camera, and grateful for the partnership and trust between @DeerCrResources and @chicofd. I'll be making a longer video about yesterday's burn.

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