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Community Wildfire Risk Pilot Project for Paradise, Auburn, Nevada City, and Grass Valley, CA
The Spatial Informatics Group is working for CALFIRE on a Community Wildfire Risk Pilot Project for multiple cities in California.…Learn More
A Guide for Prioritizing Fuel Treatments at the Landscape Scale, and its Application at Yosemite National Park
SIG developed a landscape level fuel treatment prioritization guide for prescribed fire treatments at Yosemite National Park. The project utilized…Learn More
California Climate Initiative GHG Calculations for the Marin Municipal Water District
Spatial Informatics Group completed the GHG calculations required for a CALFIREs Forest Health Program in support of the Marin Municipal…Learn More
UC Berkeley Vegetation Management Plan Review
SIG worked with Ascent Environmental to provide a review for a detailed plan to remove eucalyptus, reduce fire hazard, and…Learn More
California Climate Initiative GHG Calculations and Implementation Support – Pit Watershed and Modoc County Region
Spatial Informatics Group is working in partnership with the Pit Resource Conservation District to assess fire risk and identify potential…Learn More
Stanford University Wildfire Management Plan
Spatial Informatics Group, in collaboration with Conway Conservation Group (CCG), Panorama Environmental, Prometheus Fire Consulting, and Fire Poppy Consulting, is…Learn More
San Lorenzo Valley Water District Fire Mitigation Project
Spatial Informatics Group, in collaboration with Conway Conservation Group (CCG), Panorama Environmental, and Prometheus Fire Consulting is accounting and mapping…Learn More
California Climate Initiative GHG Calculations and Implementation Support – Hat Creek Watershed
Spatial Informatics Group completed the GHG calculations required for a CALFIREs Forest Health Program in partnership with the Fall River…Learn More
Alpine County Wildfire Hazards Mitigation Plan
Fuels reduction projects to reduce the risk of wildland fire are a high priority in Alpine County and several have…Learn More
Development of a Wildland Fire Resiliency Program for the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space District
SIG is working with Panorama Environmental (https://www.panoramaenv.com/) to develop a Wildland Fire Resiliency Program for the MidPeninsula Regional Open Space…Learn More
Avoided wildfire emissions from fuel treatments along Highway 50 in El Dorado County, California
The Highway 50 corridor in Eldorado County, California, is a crucial landscape feature to reduce the risk of megafires in…Learn More
American Forest Foundation: Western Wildfire Assessment
In this project, SIG worked with American Forest Foundation (AFF) to assess existing data and information resources on high wildfire…Learn More
Expanding a California Wildfire Emissions Protocol to Colorado
Since 2018, SIG was the research lead for the “Quantifying Ecosystem Service Benefits of the Reduced Occurrence of Significant Wildfires,”…Learn More
Forest Inventory at “Dead Mans Gulch” near Santa Cruz, California
SIG worked in the Santa Cruz flying aerial imagery and installing permanent research plots for the beginning of a long-term…Learn More
Report: Sustainable Working Forests, Current Conditions in California
Since the 1970’s, the California legislature requires CALFIRE's Fire and Resource Assessment Program (FRAP) to produce periodic assessments of the…Learn More
UAV Flood Inundation Assessment for South Lake Tahoe Public Utilities
Spatial Informatics Group and The University of Vermont, Spatial Analysis Lab, teamed up to complete a flood inundation map of sewage…Learn More
