Wildfire Tracking Class

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Join this community class on Zoom and learn resources to help you stay informed about wildfires in northern California.

  1. Increase your situational awareness with current wildfire tracking tools, apps, and services

  2. How to use back-up emergency services for when one or more service fails

  3. Set healthy communication boundaries and tend your inner landscape during the most active fire months

We’ll go step-by-step how use the free digital apps & public services in our Wildfire Tracking Toolkit:

1 part strategy + 1 part technique + 1 part tools

This class takes a personal and holistic approach that builds technical skills while bridging philosophies from wildlife tracking, ecopsychology, and systems thinking.

All are welcome for this community class. Donations are appreciated to help keep this community work sustainable and accessible to all. Support can be sent to @LostInForestville (Venmo) or @lostinforestville (PayPal).

1. Sign Up

Sign up for an upcoming community class

 

Private or Sponsored Group Class Option

For a more personal experience with 1-on-1 guidance, you may request a private class on a sliding scale. I also collaborate with organizations to sponsor a custom workshop for your community’s needs.

Request a private or sponsored group class

2. Install mobile apps

Download and install these mobile apps in the Wildfire Tracking Toolkit to follow along real-time:

Learn more ways of cultivating wildfire resilience and preparing for fire season by visiting our Community Resources.

Teacher bio

My community services are designed to cultivate wildfire resilience that honors the layered effect that fire carries in our hearts, minds, and sense of home in our more-than-human world.

I’m a founding board member of the Forestville Fire Safe and FireWise Council with a focus in communication strategy, stewardship, and education. With a professional background in Communication Arts & Design, I bring a holistic approach to sense of safety that’s grounded in design thinking, mindfulness, and natural sciences.

I’m committed to helping our community navigate our complex relationship with wildfire in Sonoma County and beyond. Over the last 6 years I’ve been devoted to studying and practicing restorative skills in these areas:

  • Certified as a Wildland Firefighter/Firelighter (FF2) with Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward program and the Good Fire Alliance to learn prescribed fire practices in community

  • Certified as a California Naturalist from University of California and Stewards of the Coast & Redwoods to learn more about our unique bioregional ecosystems and the direct role of fire within them

  • Earned a certificate in Ecopsychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute to learn skills to help our community work with the eco anxiety and climate grief of our times

  • Earned a certificate in Trauma Informed Care from Hannah Institute to integrate more responsive and healing-centered practices at the community level

  • Earned a certificate in Mindful Awareness from the Mindfulness Teacher Training program at UC Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center to ground sustainable inner and outer activism

  • Trained in Racial & Restorative Justice from We Are Stronghold to disrupt patterns of inequity and harm to promote healing, accountability, and greater safety for all

  • Ongoing education about Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Indigenous Science from Tribal community leaders to understand beyond-institutional knowledge and better honor being in right relationship to the lands I’m a guest on

  • Attended UC Berkeley's Fire Science Research seminars to understand bodies of ecological research being conducted on the local and regional level

  • Attended CONES California Naturalist & Climate Stewards seminars on a monthly basis to understand emergent issues and solutions around climate change

  • Volunteer with the North Bay Bear Collaborative to improve tracking skills while studying the affects of fire on Black Bear and apex predator habitats

  • Ongoing education about good fire from prescribed, cultural, and community burns and fire practitioners as an ongoing student of fire

  • Ongoing 1-on-1 fire management conversations with USFS hotshots, SFFD firefighters, prescribed fire practitioners, fire ecologists, environmental scientists, land stewards, and international wildlife rangers to understand the diverse landscape of fire strategies in the wildland interface