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OWN VOICE. ~ InPerspective by Gregg Dieguez —
I just today (1/5/22) received an email with this information in my MCC email account. I do not know the other addressees, so I’m posting here to alert the community. This meeting is a part of the El Granada Wildfire consulting project we got the County to fund this past year. Your participation is encouraged. Below is the text of the email:
Members of the community are invited to a listening session hosted by the Resource Conservation District to share your insights, information, priorities, and resources related to wildfire resiliency. This is a valuable opportunity to provide input to the Panorama Environmental consultant team for the El Granada Wildfire Resiliency Scoping Project.
The listening session will be held on January 25, 2022 from 6pm to as late as 8 pm via Zoom at this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81355467262.
The purpose of the project is to develop a site-specific understanding of wildfire scenarios for El Granada and the surrounding community and scope a suite of actions that would most effectively reduce those risks. It will:
- Define the wildfire risks to El Granada and affected communities, including overview of fire ecology, local fire history, fire environment (fuels characteristics, fuel models, weather, topography)
- Assess wildfire risks to El Granada and affected communities, including most likely scenarios, ignition probability, fire behavior, potential fire spread, and general identification of values at risk
- Identify and scope an array of potential actions that would most effectively reduce those risks and build wildfire resiliency
The consultants are in their information-gathering phase, which includes input from the community. This meeting will focus on listening to the community and will not be a report out about the project.
There are a number of ways to get additional information or updates about the El Granada Wildfire Resiliency Scoping Project, including:
- Contact the project manager, Sheena Sidhu, at sheena[at]sanmateoRCD.org.
- Join regular meetings of the Midcoast Community Council to ask questions or get updates.
- Visit the project web page at http://www.sanmateorcd.org/project/el-granada-wildfire-resiliency-scoping-project/.
- Ask questions or make comments at monthly meetings of the RCD Board of Directors. For more information visit http://www.sanmateorcd.org/about/board-meetings/.From:
Sheena Sidhu <[email protected]>
More From Gregg Dieguez ~ InPerspective
Mr. Dieguez is a native San Franciscan, longtime San Mateo County resident, and semi-retired entrepreneur who causes occasional controversy on the Coastside. He is a member of the MCC, but his opinions here are his own, and not those of the Council. In 2003 he co-founded MIT’s Clean Tech Program here in NorCal, which became MIT’s largest alumni speaker program. He lives in Montara. He loves a productive dialog in search of shared understanding.
