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A website guide for anyone who plays a role in stewarding land in Sonoma County to achieve a variety of goals, from fire resilience to conserving water, enhancing wildlife habitat, and more.
In Sonoma County, we ask a lot from the land. Some common land stewardship objectives are:
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Resilience to wildfire
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Wildlife habitat
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Drought and flood readiness
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Carbon sequestration
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Water and soil integrity
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Biodiversity
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Recreation
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Cultural use
Sonoma County is full of expertise on how to achieve these objectives, but that knowledge can be hard to access, and for an individual landowner, management decisions can be overwhelming.
Tending the Land for Fire Resilience in Sonoma County is a website guide for anyone who plays a role in stewarding land in Sonoma County to achieve a variety of goals, from fire resilience to conserving water, enhancing wildlife habitat, and more.
CORE PRINCIPLE
It’s possible to manage land for both fire risk reduction and ecological function.
PURPOSE
Support multi-benefit land management in Sonoma County’s natural and working lands.
AUDIENCE
Landowners and landowner groups
Volunteers, tenants, and community members who help care for open space lands
Professionals, especially early-career or transitioning professionals
Project Team
This project was accomplished through joint efforts among Sonoma Ecology Center, Pepperwood, Occidental Arts and Ecology Center, and dozens of contributors from organizations. For the full list of partners, please visit Tending the Land About Page.
Tending the Land was funded by Sonoma County’s Vegetation Management Grant Program, Fire Safe Sonoma, the Redwood Chapter of Sierra Club, and a generous anonymous donor.
