Wildfire Resiliency
The practice of intentionally using fire to treat/steward an area of land, sometimes as a wildfire prevention practice, and historically a cultural practice of California native tribes.
What is a prescribed or cultural burn?
This is the season that most people decide to plant during.
What is spring?
Putting your food scraps into the green bin is an accessible way to participate in this form of food waste diversion.
What is composting?
The CA state flower
What is the California Poppy?
The goal number of volunteers that each fellow should recruit during their term.
What are 100 volunteers?
The name for the intersection where a wildland changes into an urban/suburban landscape, this area is extra vulnerable to wildfire threats.
What is Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)?
This is a description for a tree that does not seasonally lose it's leaves, the coast live oak and the douglas fir both belong in this category.
What is Evergreen?
The Senate Bill aiming to reduce organic waste disposal and to rescue, for people to eat, currently disposed surplus food.
What is SB 1383?
The California state tree. Hint: it's riparian (relating to or situated on the banks of a river).
What is the California Redwood?
This is how you can engage more people in climate action.
What is inviting a friend, etc.?
Prioritizing the first 100 feet of land around your house ( or a structure) to be ember resistant.
What is Defensible Space?
These are two benefits of planting trees.
What is providing shade (reduce heat island effect), sequestering carbon, providing food, producing oxygen, is pretty, provides habitat (for critters)
The three components needed for healthy compost.
What are Greens (organic waste), Browns (dead/dry material) and Blues (water & oxygen)?
This is the state bird of California
What is the California Quail? (bonus point if they indicate the little feather with their finger)
This is the decade that organized the first Earth Day, EVER!
What is the 1970s?
Retrofitting a building or structure using ignition-resistant materials and design techniques to protect it from flying embers and radiant heat during a wildfire.
What is home hardening?
This type of green infrastructure is used to slow down and infiltrate stormwater, and is best used in small drainage areas.
What is a bioswale?
These are two different ways you can compost.
What are Bokashi, vermicomposting, rotating (tumbler), and/or open air?
This is a type of natural disaster in CA that is greatly exacerbated by climate change.
What are Wildfires?
What is reducing your intake of animal-based products, OR diverting food waste?
These three components are necessary to evaluate when looking at wildfire behavior.
What are Weather, Fuel and Topography?
Income, Race, Age and Socioeconomic factors are all considered when calculating this metric.
What is a tree equity score?
The FBI of Composting
What are Fungus, Bacteria, and Invertebrates?
This is the percentage of CA landfills that is composed of organic/food waste.
What is 18%? (Will accept anywhere from 15-25%)
This many thousands of volunteers have been engaged by CCAC throughout this term.
What is around 14 thousand?