This eight-minute film is an interview with State Park Senior Environmental Scientist Portia Halbert about why she chose the career she did and the importance of prescribed burns for land management.
Per Portia: Burning has been a part of Big Basin since time immemorial, but for the past 150 years the park has not seen fire like it once did. With the CZU Lightning Complex fire we have a reset. This wildfire was less than ideal but still the forest and fire are bound together. Because of our temperate climate, more fuel (vegetation) grows than can decompose in any one year and continues to build up. The solution to this "problem" is fire.
4 окт 2024