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More than 16,000 structures were lost in last month's wildfires in LA. Residents there are now beginning the difficult process of deciding whether they can — or even want to — rebuild. For those who do, experts and survivors of past wildfires say there are ways to build in some resilience against future fires. In Santa Rosa's Coffey Park, that's what many residents did after the 2017 Tubbs Fire decimated their neighborhood. Reporter: Adhiti Bandlamudi, KQED Big water releases from two Central Valley dams are leaving farmers flummoxed. It's the result of an executive order from President Trump that's supposed to help fight wildfires in Los Angeles. But the water is unlikely to reach its intended destination. Reporter: Joshua Yeager, KVPR Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mike Harkins stayed behind as the flames approached his Coffey Park neighborhood and everyone else evacuated. Harkins knocked on doors to make sure people were awake, and leaving. He helped his elderly neighbor, a wheelchair user, into her van. When he wasn't hosing down his house and the houses of neighbors, Harkins was stamping out spot fires. Harkins recalls that night for The Press Democrat. 

My guest today is noted wildfire and chaparral ecologist Rick Halsey. Rick authored the book “Fire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California”, and has given countless talks on the subject. Rick has a background in Environmental Studies, Anthropology, and Education, with degrees from University of California Santa Barbara and Cal State San Diego and UC Berkeley. In this episode we discuss the myths and realities of wildfire. There are many eye opening insights that, even today, get lost in the political rhetoric. We discuss the ecosystems of the west and their natural fire behaviors and how those were determined through charcoal records and tree ring analysis, the surprising negative impacts of fuel removal and prescribed burns, how indigenous fire management techniques fit into the discussion, simple solutions at the wildland-urban interface (WUI) such as exterior sprinkler systems, and much more.In particular, we discuss the causes and factors leading to the Camp Fire that destroyed the town of Paradise, CA in 2018, the Yosemite Rim Fire, Oakland Hills Firestorm of 1991, and more. While we focus extensively on California, the principles discussed apply to much of the west.We take a few tangents in the discussion, including an insightful view of Rick's education experience and approaches.As an educator, Rick was the recipient of the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship. Over the years he's fine-tuned his delivery and has a wonderful essay on his transformation from lecturer to the engage model.Through the years, Rick has combined his educational skills and knowledge of ecology to focus on chaparral habitats - the most important habitat at the wildland/urban interface in California's major cities. He is the founder and director of the California Chaparral Institute, which is dedicated to preserving what remains of California's chaparral through scientific research, nature education, and activism. One of his quotes that really reflects his approach to nature education is "Our job as educators is not to convince everyone how smart we are. Our job is to convince people how smart they are.See Full Shows Notes at podcast.naturesarchive.comLinks to People, Events, and Resources Discussed:Keith Lombardo, Ph. D. Jack Cohen, Ph. D. California Chaparral Institute WASP exterior sprinklersSanta Monica National Recreation Area wildfire and chaparral resourcesFire, Chaparral, and Survival in Southern California - by Rick Halsey Santa Rosa's Coffey Park - a community burned by the Tubbs FireThe Rim Fire at Yosemite National ParkThe Nature Fix - Why Nature Makes us Happier, Healthier, and More Creative - by Florence WilliamsMusicFearless First and Beauty Flow by Kevin MacLoed, obtained from https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/

Theme Song: Tone Oliver This is a bonus episode from our Covid-19 Special on how cannabis retail businesses are handling shifts in the supply chain to address the crisis. If you're looking for the special that features all three guests, click here: https://anchor.fm/high-on-our-own-supply/episodes/3---Covid-19-Special-Retailers--Delivery-eecsbf/a-a28t3ao We are releasing three bonus episodes featuring the unedited interview from the special. This third bonus episode features Alicia Wingard, Founder and COO of Flora Terra. Topics: What is life for your company like during Covid? What have been the most interesting trends you've seen in the last 3-4 weeks? How is the supply chain acting differently or responding to our new paradigm? What have been your biggest challenges during this crisis? What do you think life will be like post-Covid for cannabis companies? About Flora Terra At Flora Terra, they turned the old school dispensary model on its head by curating a space for education, connection, and style to flourish. Located in the resilient and beautiful neighborhood of Santa Rosa's Coffey Park, Flora Terra is an expression of their community, their values, and their future. Engineered with the highest standards in green building, Flora Terra is inviting, open, and educational. They still proudly cultivate their own premium flower with proprietary methods from seed to sale. At Flora Terra, they believe in working in harmony with their environment to create the best possible products and experiences for Sonoma, for California, and for you. https://floraterraca.com/

DEA comment link: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2020/03/23/2020-05796/controls-to-enhance-the-cultivation-of-marihuana-for-research-in-the-united-states Leave us a voice message: http://anchor.fm/high-on-our-own-supply Theme Song: Tone Oliver This is our Covid-19 Special on how cannabis retail businesses are handling shifts in the supply chain to address the crisis. Unlike other episodes, we interviewed three different retail companies in California: from a dispensary in Santa Rosa doing curbside pickup, to a members-only delivery service headquartered in the Bay Area, to a boutique retail and delivery chain in Los Angeles. We dig deep into how the supply chain is responding to the Coronavirus crisis. We don't focus on all the things everyone already knows, like that sales are up or that edibles are all the rage. We discussed what is happening in between those things, including covering a product category trend that I did not see coming. Topics: What is life for your company like during Covid? What have been the most interesting trends you've seen in the last 3-4 weeks? How is the supply chain acting differently or responding to our new paradigm? What have been your biggest challenges during this crisis? What do you think life will be like post-Covid for cannabis companies? Our Guests: Kiana Anvirapour from Sweet Flower Alicia Wingard from Flora Terra Ted Lichtenberg from Flower Co. About Sweet Flower Launched in 2018, Sweet Flower was created to transform the cannabis shopping experience - offering delivery services across LA and designing beautiful, inviting retail spaces that are unlike anything the industry has seen before. Sweet Flower has 3 locations (Melrose, DTLA, Studio City), with a fourth location soon to come in Westwood. On a mission to disrupt the industry at large as a female-led brand transforming the world of cannabis, Sweet Flower is now the largest independently owned Cannabis dispensary in SoCal. www.sweetflower.com About Flora Terra At Flora Terra, they turned the old school dispensary model on its head by curating a space for education, connection, and style to flourish. Located in the resilient and beautiful neighborhood of Santa Rosa's Coffey Park, Flora Terra is an expression of their community, their values, and their future. Engineered with the highest standards in green building, Flora Terra is inviting, open, and educational. They still proudly cultivate their own premium flower with proprietary methods from seed to sale. At Flora Terra, they believe in working in harmony with their environment to create the best possible products and experiences for Sonoma, for California, and for you. https://floraterraca.com/ About Flower Co. FLOWER CO. is a members-only delivery club. Members pay annual dues – recovered on average in two orders – for access to the best prices on tested, 100% authentic California cannabis brands. They maintain a lean operation and keep overhead low throughout the supply chain to save our members money. They are currently accepting new members in San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles (Calabasas to Long Beach), Humboldt County, & Sacramento.

Barry Herbst from Bottle Barn joins Steve Jaxon today on California Wine Country. Dan Berger is away this week. Jason Schneider, spirits manager at Bottle Barn, is also in. Our guests are Michelle Rahm and Annie Barber from Coffey Strong and also Guy Davis from Davis Family Vineyards. Coffey Strong is an organization of people in Coffey Park, in Sonoma County, dedicated to helping others to recover from this year’s fires. To raise money for public projects, they have bottled a special red wine called the Barn Raiser. Guy Davis from Davis Family Wines is in. He make the red blend, 75% Zin, 15% Merlot and 10% Petit Verdot. They have sold over 100 cases. After they finish this run they will bottle another one early next year. Guy Davis tells about Davis Family Wines. Their family lives on their vineyard property and he and his two sons do everything “from vine to bottle.” He is proud of that and even prouder that some of their work can benefit others. They are located on Front Street in Healdsburg, in front of the Russian River, as you cross the Memorial Bridge coming into town. They have a bocce court with a view of the river and a big organic garden. The 2017 Red blend Barn Raiser is available at Bottle Barn. It sells for $14.99. The intent was really to be a community wine to benefit the community and they did it with help from a lot of local friends including Guy Fieri who contributed some high-elevation Zinfandel grapes at cost. Its tag line is “A community wine supported by the wine community. They also taste a Chardonnay that Barry Herbst says has been the number one seller from Harvest Fair. It won best of class for the under-$20 category, selling for $10. Davis Family Wines makes about a dozen wines. They grow 4 varieties on their property. They make about 6000 cases total. Guy Davis worked in a French restaurant while a college student, which is where he learned about food and wine. His original degree was in economics. He started a small company that sold wine from small producers to direct to consumers. Then he took courses in viticulture and enology at UC Davis. Asked what spirits are hot at Bottle Barn this season, Jason says that bourbon is hot and so are spirits from local distillers like Redwood Empire, Lost Republic and Sonoma Distilling.

Due to the Kincade Fire in Sonoma County, there is no live Brew Ha Ha show on KSRO today. For this podcast episode, here is a repeat of our July, 2018 visit with Brian Hunt, founder of Moonlight Brewing Co. Please consider making a donation to the Red Cross which has done so much to help Sonoma County again during the fires this year.) Brian Hunt, Moonlight Brewing founder and brewmaster and Shannon Thomas, tasting room and social media manager, are in today with Herlinda Heras and Steve Jaxon. Mark Carpenter is away this week. Brian Hunt started Moonlight Brewing in 1992. He jokes that he needed to support his beer habit and he actually stared home brewing in his bedroom when he was in high school. He had some German friends who helped him too. He graduated from UC Davis brew school in 1980, where Michael Lewis was his brewing instructor. There were 43 brewing companies in the United States then. There are more than that number now in just Sonoma County. He worked for a while at Schlitz in Milwaukee. The guy who had bought Schlitz said, “It don’t matter what I put in the can as long as it has Schlitz on the label.” He was only interested in money and he was fired. Then they hired a brew master and they decided to make good beer again. But the brand was in decline and when they closed Milwaukee Stroh’s bought them. Then Pabst bought them. Moonlight Brewing will celebrate their 26th anniversary at an event in September 2018. They are the closest brewery to Coffey Park in Santa Rosa, which burned in the October 2017 fires. They have a new taproom that holds almost 50 people. They built a bar out of reclaimed redwood, furniture from Bergamot Alley and old school chairs, making a very comfortable place. Moonlight Brewing is known for a beer they produce called Death and Taxes. They are snacking on some popcorn called Hippie Dust, which has Nutritional Yeast on it, which is tasty and very nutritious. Herlinda Heras tells about how spent grain from brewing is being used by bakers, such as one in Forestville, and that bread is available on Saturdays. They have a taproom open Thursday and Friday at 4 and Saturday and Sunday at 1. It’s the third location that they have had. They also make Bloody Mary popcorn and Maple Syrup popcorn. Their beer called Death and Taxes is one of the first beers he made at Moonlight. It’s a San Francisco style black lager. He has found that in Europe, people are used to there being local versions of beer named for cities or regions, while here, people act surprised at the idea. Shannon says everyone remembers where they were when they first taste Death and Taxes. Brian says that because it’s clean and crisp, it’s great for California. Brian describes the Lagunitas Beer Circus in London from his point of view. He gets to serve beer to people who like beer, but there are trapeze artists, burlesque, bikes, and a crazy goofy atmosphere. “See things you can’t unsee” is their slogan. As for his hop philosophy, he also likes to make beer without hops. He says hops are just a spice, but that you can put other things in beer to flavor it. He just really loves a drinkable beer.

Tonight on “After Paradise” it’s been 23 weeks since the Camp Fire started. In this episode, we hear the latest on PG&E, debris removal and the redesign of Paradise. We also hear from residents rebuilding in Coffey Park — a community in Santa Rosa that was destroyed in the Tubbs Fire a year-and-a-half ago. We also take a look at homelessness after the Camp Fire, and hear a story about the Helltown Hotshots – four men who stayed behind to help save their community.

Pete Parkinson’s planning career has spanned not only decades but also various California counties. As a result, he’s familiar with a wide range of hazards. In the fourth episode of the APA Podcast series Resilience Roundtable, he and host Rich Roths, AICP, discuss many of them, including earthquakes, floods, landslides, and wildfires. Pete unfortunately has a very personal experience dealing with the latter, as he and his family lost their home in October 2017 when multiple fires tore through Sonoma County, as well as Lake, Napa, Mendocino, and Solano counties. His story focuses on the Tubbs Fire, which began in Calistoga but spread into Santa Rosa, even jumping Highway 101 in the process. It destroyed the Coffey Park neighborhood and ultimately the Santa Rosa mobile home park where Pete's mother-in-law lived. (The Tubbs Fire is now the second-most destructive fire in California history after the November 2018 Camp Fire, which caused 85 deaths and destroyed 18,804 structures in Butte County.) Pete is now working as a consultant on the new multifamily development at the site of the former mobile home park. The veteran planner ends his heartrending account by sharing the life-saving lessons he learned during and after the experience.

Brian Hunt, Moonlight Brewing founder and brewmaster and Shannon Thomas, tasting room and social media manager, are in today with Herlinda Heras and Steve Jaxon. Mark Carpenter is away this week. Brian Hunt started Moonlight Brewing in 1992. He jokes that he needed to support his beer habit and he actually stared home brewing in his bedroom when he was in high school. He had some German friends who helped him too. He graduated from UC Davis brew school in 1980, where Michael Lewis was his brewing instructor. There were 43 brewing companies in the United States then. There are more than that number now in just Sonoma County. He worked for a while at Schlitz in Milwaukee. The guy who had bought Schlitz said, “It don’t matter what I put in the can as long as it has Schlitz on the label.” He was only interested in money and he was fired. Then they hired a brew master and they decided to make good beer again. But the brand was in decline and when they closed Milwaukee Stroh’s bought them. Then Pabst bought them. Moonlight Brewing will celebrate their 26th anniversary at an event in September. They are the closest brewery to Coffey Park in Santa Rosa, which burned in the October 2017 fires. They have a new taproom that holds almost 50 people. They built a bar out of reclaimed redwood, furniture from Bergamot Alley and old school chairs, making a very comfortable place. Moonlight Brewing is known for a beer they produce called Death and Taxes. They are snacking on some popcorn called Hippie Dust, which has Nutritional Yeast on it, which is tasty and very nutritious. Herlinda Heras tells about how spent grain from brewing is being used by bakers, such as one in Forestville, and that bread is available on Saturdays. They have a taproom open Thursday and Friday at 4 and Saturday and Sunday at 1. It’s the third location that they have had. They also make Bloody Mary popcorn and Maple Syrup popcorn. Their beer called Death and Taxes is one of the first beers he made at Moonlight. It’s a San Francisco style black lager. He has found that in Europe, people are used to there being local versions of beer named for cities or regions, while here, people act surprised at the idea. Shannon says everyone remembers where they were when they first taste Death and Taxes. Brian says that because it’s clean and crisp, it’s great for California. Brian describes the Lagunitas Beer Circus in London from his point of view. He gets to serve beer to people who like beer, but there are trapeze artists, burlesque, bikes, and a crazy goofy atmosphere. “See things you can’t unsee” is their slogan. As for his hop philosophy, he also likes to make beer without hops. He says it’s just a spice, but that you can put other things in it to flavor it. He just really loves a drinkable beer.

One wouldn’t think that a play that deals with the wreckage left behind by a natural disaster would be particularly attractive to North Bay residents right now, but Sharyn Rothstein’s By the Water speaks to what our community is going through. While it’s set in 1992 on New York’s Staten Island after Hurricane Sandy, the human and material devastation portrayed might just as well be set in Coffey Park today. The show opens with Marty and Mary Murphy (Mike Pavone and Mary Gannon Graham) returning to what’s left of their storm-ravaged home to begin the process of rebuilding. Word comes that the government may be offering buyouts to the residents as long as 80% of the neighborhood is willing to sell. The Murphy’s son Sal (Mark Bradbury) and their best friends Philip and Andrea Carter (Clark Miller and Madeleine Ashe) are all for getting out, but Marty is resistant. Actually, he’s more than resistant as he recruits his other son Brian (Jared Wright) to actively campaign against the buyout. He speaks of family and community and history, but there’s another reason for his intransigence. That reason just may do the job that Hurricane Sandy couldn’t and finish off the family. Rothstein’s script is Arthur Miller-esque in its examination of a middle-class American family in economic crisis. The shadow of Death of a Salesman hangs over this production with its floundering patriarch, long-suffering-but-loyal wife, sons whose lives took different paths, a financially supportive friend, family secrets, etc. but Rothstein has effectively updated the story and added a few layers, though some like a subplot involving Brian’s rekindling of an old flame (Katie Kelly) feel superfluous. Director Carl Jordan has an impressive cast with leads Graham and Pavone terrific as spouses whose relationship is put to the test, not by the disaster but by what it reveals about the family. Bradbury and Wright do well as the siblings who have their own issues but whose love for each other is clear. Madeleine Ashe delivers the most devastating line in the play – a single line that speaks of the desperation and frustration that many in this community now feel. Speaking to Marty she tries to explain why her and her husband are so inclined to accept the buyout. She looks directly at Marty and says, “I’m 60, and I have nothing.” The pain in that line was palpable, and yet it was also cathartic. By the Water is not a story of natural disaster but of human resilience. It’s our story. **** ‘By the Water’ runs Friday through Sunday through April 8 at the Spreckels Performing Arts Center in Rohnert Park. Friday and Saturday evening performances at 8pm; Sunday matinees are at 2pm. There’s a Thursday, April 5 performance at 7:30pm. For more information, go to spreckelsonline.com

The inferno unleashed on Sonoma, Napa, and Mendocino Counties, as well as several other northern California counties, left behind the kind of devastation many have only read about in the history books. Thousands of structures and homes were destroyed, entire neighborhoods left in ruins, and of course the 44 lives lost. There is one neighborhood that symbolizes the destruction and a community’s resilience to bounce back — Coffey Park in Santa Rosa. In this episode, we hear from four leaders who were instrumental in managing the efforts to find temporary homes for the thousands displaced, removing the massive amounts of rubble and debris, and cleaning the land to modern environmental standards so residents can rebuild. They are: Cal OES Directory Mark Ghilarducci, FEMA Region IX Administrator Bob Fenton, US Army Corps of Engineers Field Office Commander in Sonoma County Col. Eric McFadden, and FEMA National Qualifications System Director and  Federal Lead for the Housing Task Force Ryan Buras. We spoke with them on-location to get them reflect shortly after the day debris removal program in Coffey Park concluded. The also talk about the fire and resulting flood and mudslides in Santa Barbara. Here they are, in their own words.  Links http://wildfirerecovery.org/ http://caloes.ca.gov/ https://www.ready.gov/        

Brighter Side: December 18, 2017. Residents in Coffey Park in Santa Rosa bring some holiday cheer to their neighborhood.