<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Join Julia Michaels, Ph.D., Restoration Ecologist, Hedgerow Farms/Pacific Coast Seed, for a webinar as she outlines the results of a five year interdisciplinary effort to reseed and
mulch 46 acres of the 2015 Butte Fire. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><u>DATE:</u> </b><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">Tuesday, February 21 at 12:00 pm EST. </b><font face="tahoma, sans-serif" style=""><b><a href="https://members.naturalareas.org/members/evr/reg_event.php?orgcode=AREA&evid=33845413" style="">REGISTER HERE</a> or visit <a href="http://www.naturalareas.org">www.naturalareas.org</a>.</b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><u><br></u></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><u style="font-weight:bold">NAA WEBINAR:</u> <a href="https://www.naturalareas.org/docs/022023MichaelsAbstract.pdf">C</a><a href="https://www.naturalareas.org/docs/022023MichaelsAbstract.pdf">ase Study Butte Fire: Post Fire Seeding and mulching treatment effects on native plant cover, RDM, erosion control and invasive species reduction</a></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><b><u>ABSTRACT:</u></b></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style=""><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Since 2002, the use of seed in post-fire mitigation projects in California has
been confined almost exclusively to state highway and county roads, Federal Emergency Management
Agency (FEMA) and other private reseeding efforts. These agencies have found specific situations
where seeding and mulching offers appreciable value for the protection of property and reduction of
on-site erosion. In this presentation we outline the results of an interdisciplinary effort to reseed and
mulch 46 acres of the 2015 Butte Fire. These efforts included native seed and straw mulching, aerial
mulching, and manual application coordinated by BLM and EBMUD. During the spring of 2015 we
collected data and analyzed the effects of the seeding treatments. A control site was identified, and the
team collected field data for total cover, including native and other plant cover and RDM. Treated slopes
were also measured for soil loss to estimate first year potential soil loss and the potential loss over 5
years. We found that prompt reseeding with natives and mulching reduces bare ground and thus lowers
potential invasive weed establishment in the first and second year after treatment. We encourage
prompt native seed applications on other fire rehabilitation projects. <br></font></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif"><br></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Moira
McGinty Klos (She/Her)</font></p>
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703.328.7481 | P.O. Box 594, Ligonier, PA 15658</font></p>
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