Led by Dr. Debra Ayres and Dr. Ginna Meyers, with a focus on wildfire resiliency in foothill chaparral, including their research on the effect of BLM pile burning on rare natives. Located within the El Dorado County gabbroic soils, PHP is a biodiversity hotspot and home to plant species found nowhere else. The El Dorado chapter collaborates in its management with local, state, and federal agencies, leads field trips and organizes volunteer hand weeding.

Led by BLM staff, focusing on pollinator restoration and using targeted sheep grazing to deal with major invasive weed challenges. El Dorado chapter collaborated on the Dave Moore segment.

• - Placerville branch, county library (chapter sponsored) - 345 Fair Ln, Placerville, CA 95667
• - Wakamatsu Farm native plant garden (American River Conservancy) - 941 Cold Springs Rd, Placerville, CA 95667

• 5:00-6:00 - Social Hour beverages with appetizers (no charge).
• 6:00p - Dinner Build-your-own burrito bar catered by Sierra Rizing. (select preferences when you register)
• After-dinner slide talk - Sierra Nevada’s Future Given Wildfire and Climate Change - Dr. Kristen Shive, UC Berkeley Cooperative Extension Forest and Fuels Specialist.
  

• Placerville community hardening - Brief visit to 25 million dollar FEMA pilot project funding home hardening and defensible space in an entire community within Placerville.
• Grizzly Flats home that survived - A conventional but hardened home that survived the intense Caldor Fire despite no firefighting available. 80% of the town was destroyed.
• 2021 Caldor Fire Footprint - topics:
  • - an area where the chapter has monitored rare plant survival
  • - discussion of the high intensity areas and their outcome, with Eric Nicita, Eldorado National Forest soil scientist
  • - meadow with great plants and restoration challenges
  • - streamside oasis amid the fire footprint
  • - fuel reduction project that may have saved the town of Pollock Pines, with Sue Britting, CNPS and Sierra Forest Legacy