Like many Californians in 2003, I began to grapple with the new reality of megafires.* My first experience with wildfire occurred in 1993. That October my high school became an evacuation center for the Laguna Beach fire. Then, after 10 years of relative calm, wildfires broke out in a fury no one could have forseen. San Diego took on an apocalyptic […]

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This article was written by Bert Wilson, a fire fighter, landscape contractor, and a native plant nursery owner. He was probably the most knowledgeable man on this topic that may have lived. He did a lot of his own experiments to separate fact from fiction. https://www.laspilitas.com/fire.htmhttps://www.laspilitas.com/fire.htm

If you are raking your leaves and bringing them to your local compost pile there’s a good chance you are. The Pacific Ultrapower plant in Chinese Camp burns local agricultural, logging, and yard “debris” for energy. The trees on your property are actually extremely complex solar panels. Unlike your solar panels on your home the energy is stored in the […]

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