Fire Management 24/7/365: Report of a workshop on the mitigation of wildfire risk in the mixed conifer forests of California

[...]many members of the George Wright Society (GWS) have been drawn into the crisis, as well as the efforts to find solutions. Having heard this from National Park Service (NPS) managers in SequoiaKings Canyon and Yosemite National Parks, we reached out to US Forest Service (USFS), CAL FIRE, and regional land management collaborations to see if there might be interest within those agencies/ groups for such a workshop. Participants included agency fire and fuel managers and experts such as fire ecologists, fuels management specialists, and air quality, cultural resource, wildlife, and other professional specialists from the major organizations working on each landscape. * "Enhancing the Giants" focused on Stanislaus National Forest (USFS) and Yosemite National Park (NPS). [...]they reported out on what they saw as barriers to both interagency planning and projects as well as impediments to increasing the pace and scale of forest treatments. * "Big Stump to Redwood and Beyond" focused on Sequoia National Forest and Sequoia-Kings Canyons National Parks (SEKI).