Members of the El Granada community are invited to a listening session hosted by the Resource Conservation District to share your insights, information, priorities, and resources related to wildfire resiliency. This is a valuable opportunity to provide input to the Panorama Environmental consultant team for theĀ El Granada Wildfire Resiliency Scoping Project.
TheĀ purposeĀ of theĀ project is toĀ develop a site-specific understanding of wildfire scenarios for El Granada and the surrounding communityĀ and scope a suite of actions that would most effectively reduce those risks.Ā It will:
- DefineĀ the wildfire risks to El Granada and affected communities, including overview of fire ecology, local fire history, fire environment (fuels characteristics, fuel models, weather, topography)
- AssessĀ wildfire risks to El Granada and affected communities, including most likely scenarios, ignition probability, fire behavior, potential fire spread, and general identification of values at risk
- Identify and scopeĀ an array of potential actions that would most effectively reduce those risks and build wildfire resiliency
The consultants are in their information-gathering phase, which includes input from the community. This meeting will focus on listening to the community and will not be a report out about the project.
There are a number of ways to get additional information or updates about the El Granada Wildfire Resiliency Scoping Project, including:
- Contact the project manager, Sheena Sidhu, at sheena[at]sanmateoRCD.org.
- Join regular meetings of the Midcoast Community Council to ask questions or get updates.
- Visit the project web page here.
- Ask questions or make comments atĀ monthly meetingsĀ of the RCD Board of Directors.
- Future public meetings focused on reporting out about efforts to reduce risk of wildfire.
El Granada Wildfire Resiliency Listening Session
January 25, 2022 at 6pm on Zoom
Or join by phone:
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