Happy Winter Solstice! This coast redwood is feeling the LOVE today. (Yearly images taken on the same date and at the same time if day.) #SaveTheRedwoods #FireMimicry 🍁🔥🌳🌎

Winter Solstice Redwood Tomorrow is winter solstice and I would like to celebrate by sharing with you a redwood tree that I’ve been tending with fire mimicry for the past four years. Enjoy!

Happy Winter Solstice Eve! #SaveTheRedwoods with #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

Monterey pines on the mend Yesterday I checked up on a grove of Monterey pines that have had a couple of fire mimicry treatments …

It's not all about the oaks here at Sudden Oak Life. We care for pines too ...
#PineHealth #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

Coast live oaks regaining their health in Monterey CA Four years ago I began fire mimicry treatments on a grove of coast live oaks overlooking Monterey, CA. I’m quite pleased with the results but I’ll let trees speak for themselves …

Turns out that reviving oaks is not too difficult ...🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌰
#OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife

More results on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations in coastal California Last year I shared a post on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations here on the Central Coast of California. In that post I stated: “In 2017 there was a severe oakworm infestation of …

Yesterday I visited an oak grove in Monterey that was hit hard by an oakworm infestation in 2017. Following a couple of fire mimicry treatments the oaks seem to be recovering nicely!
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#OakHealth #Oakworm #FireMimicry

Another successful canker surgery on an ancient coast live oak This is a 2017 image of an old-growth coast live oak in Monterey that I’ve been treating with fire mimicry for eight years. At that time it had bleeding stem canker infection, possibly Sudden…

Moving forward, one tree at a time ...
#OakHealth #SuddenOakDeath #SuddenOakLife #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

Oaks in Fulton Feeling the Love Yesterday I examined a grove of coast live oaks that have undergone fire mimicry treatments for the past five years. Some of these oaks are centuries old and show signs of being tended by the Nativ…

I love my job! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰 #FireMimicry #OakHealth #SuddenOakLife

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Save the date! #OakHealth #FireMimicry #TEK 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🪶🌱🦅🌰 www.smmfsc.org/oakworkshop

Here's a video where I'm giving an oak tree a shave ...
#OakHealth #FireMimicry #Mosses

Yesterday I spent the day removing all the moss from the trunks of ancient oak trees. Any guesses why? #Mosses #OakRestoration #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰

I concocted a new potion for the oaks yesterday ... results coming next year. #OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🌱🪶🌰

Rocko (Star) on the job, every friggin' day! #FireMimicry #OakRestoration #SuddenOakLife #GooBoi 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🌰

Lectures and Podcasts Forged by Fire with Lee Klinger: The power to mitigate wildfire risk can be in our handsKSQD Talk of the Bay interview by Christine Barrington, January 19, 2025 Episode 205: Forged by Fire with Lee…

Want to learn more about #FireMimicry? I've added a page on the Sudden Oak Life blog listing my lectures and podcasts that describe the science, #TEK, practice, and efficacy of emulating fire to reverse #OakMortality ... 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🌰
suddenoaklife.org/lectures-and...

Happy #EarthDay to all you fine folks! Here's a reason to remain hopeful, tending the forest one tree at a time. #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🌰

Today's forest restoration work in the misty heights of Big Sur revealed several culturally modified (pollarded) "ancestor" oaks, with grinding stones beneath. 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶 #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife

2/ It’s become apparent that surgery, along with other #FireMimicry treatments, can successfully remove minor to moderate stem canker infections, leaving no signs of diseased tissue in or around the surgical wound.

The traditional limewashing of tree trunks also provides protection from beetles that spread disease. #Limewash, along with other #FireMimicry measures, clearly reverses oak mortality here in CA. www.suddenoaklife.org 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🌰🌱🍊

The #FireMimicry protocol I've been following involves the application of #Limewash to the trunks of trees. But why haven't tree experts and scientists examined or provided evidence for or against the benefits of limewash, which is still widely used in many cultures around the world? 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🌰🌱

Coast redwoods are some of the hardiest trees in CA, but are still experiencing dieback in many areas. So why wait until redwoods become sick to give them care? I've been proactively treating healthy redwoods with #FireMimicry and am seeing these redwoods get even healthier. #SaveTheRedwoods 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌰🌱

Dendroalsia abietina is a moss commonly found on the trunks of old trees in California. Here is an ancient, culturally modified bay laurel with a shroud of Dendroalsia on its trunk. Is this a historically "natural" phenomenon in California's coastal forests? #Mosses #CMT #FireMimicry 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🪶🦅🟢

Slow felling of a hazard tree in Big Sur. My dear friend and colleague Rob Larson showing us how to conserve energy by letting gravity do the work! #FireMimicry 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🌱 www.youtube.com/shorts/N0bol...

Eight years of tending these #oaks and #redwoods with #FireMimicry (Reminder to self - widen frame original photos to better capture future upward and outward canopy growth) 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🌱 #SaveTheRedwoods #SuddenOakLife

Michael Shields interviewed me about my new book and did an excellent job putting together this podcast. Thanks for your interest and support @mikeshza.bsky.social! #ForegedByFire #FireMimicry 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳

Fire clearance (aka #FireMimicry) around oaks has some significant, unexpected consequences. This medley of time-lapse videos, each if which shows several hours of work per oak, when sped up, reveals a noticeable uplifting of the lower canopies, thus presumably aiding photosynthetic gains. 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳

Thanks for these images! That was a fun day in the rain, with the burn piles warming us at the end. #FireMimicry #TEK #CulturallyModifiedTrees #IndianCanyonNation #SantaCruzPermaculture 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳🪶🌱

Burn day at Indian Canyon with Kanyon Coyote Woman & the Santa Cruz PDC class learning about the science of TEK. Today's lesson - how to start & tend burn piles in the rain. Last photo is of a coast live oak, near the burn piles, that we've been treating for 6 yrs. #FireMimicry #Permaculture 🌱🌎🌲🔥🍁🪶

Here's an excellent article "Toward Wild Designing" by Madeline Sides on ecological restoration approaches that consider both western scientific and Traditional Ecological Knowledge systems ...
#RestorationEcology #FireMimicry 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳🦅🪶🧪

Forged by Fire with Lee Klinger: The power to mitigate wildfire risk can be in our hands Monday on Talk of the Bay at 5pm, Host Christine Barrington asks, “Is it possible to imagine a future that is not on fire?” With the ongoing wildfires in LA, it is easy to assume we are at the mercy o...

Today's KSQD show Talk of the Bay with host Christine Barrington features my work with the Esselen Tribe, and includes a few spoilers from my new book "Forged by Fire". #FireMimicry #CulturalFire #TEK #CMTs 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳🦅🪶

Today I'm out in the woods along the California Central Coast marking oaks for removal. Why would I want to remove this coast live oak? #FireMimicry 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳

Today's tree work, dead limb removal to reduce the fire hazard ... 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳 #firemimicry #restorationecology