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Next Monthly Meeting, 2nd Thursday
August 12th, 6 PM at Red Tail Canyon Farm, Leavenworth. This is a potluck - so please bring a dish to share! The CWSC will also be holding its yearly elections.
Monitoring in Progress!
Check out this great article on the work of the CWSC Monitoring Committee. The Monitoring Program is made possible by the Mountaineers Foundation.
CWSC on TV!
KCTS 9 Documentary - "North Cascades: People, Places and Stories"
Private Lands Cost-Share Opportunity!
Download the application and supplemental questionnaire and get help completing fuels reduction on your property!
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Meetings & Events
Wildfire Perspectives Video Coming Soon!
The Chumstick Wildfire Stewardship Coalition presented "Wildfire Perspectives: The Evolving Role of Fire on Natural and Human Landscapes" 7:00PM, April 8 at Barn Beach Reserve in Leavenworth. The evening examined how our actions have changed landscape fire behavior as well as how our perceptions of fire have changed over time.
The keynote speaker for the evening was Jim Agee, Professor Emeritus of Forest Ecology at the University of Washington. He taught forest and fire ecology over a 30-year career at UW and his 1993 book, Fire Ecology of Pacific Northwest Forests, remains the most widely cited reference in this discipline. Professor Agee has served with The Nature Conservancy and the Washington Natural Heritage Council. He also served on a National Academy of Science committee on non-federal forests and on the Forest Service's Committee of Scientists. Dr. Agee retired from active teaching at the university in Autumn, 2007. In 2009, he was awarded the Harold Biswell Lifetime Achievement Award in Fire Ecology and Management from the Association for Fire Ecology.
Other speakers included Mike Cecka, former Leavenworth City Administrator, and Bill Schmidt, local resident. Mike was with the City in 1994 and kept a journal of the major fires. He will be providing a short retrospective on that summer as it is perhaps the most vivid wildfire event in the collective community memory. Bill Schmidt is an engineer and local landowner who took fuel reduction action on his property after the 1994 fires- action that saved his home in a subsequent fire.
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Pictures of Firewise Chumstick Annual Field Day
