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Whitebark Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Location: Dia Del Niño event at the back end of Bishop City Park
Time: 9:00-12:00 pm
The whole family is welcome to participate with interactive games, learn how to prevent wildfires while recreating, and receive home preparedness incentives at the Whitebark Resource Table.
Saturday, May 3
Whitebark Event
Science On TAp
Join us at Mountain Rambler in Bishop for the first of our 2025 Science on Tap speaker series.
You’ll hear from Tracy Misiewicz, the Bi-State Sage-Grouse Communication & Data Coordinator, about the fantastic Bi-State sage-grouse, the threat that more frequent and large-scale wildfires pose to its existence, and the wildfire best management practices that are being implemented to protect this iconic animal and the ecosystem it inhabits.
The event opens at 6 p.m. and the talk begins at 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, May 6
Whitebark Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Online: Whitebark Institute Webinar
Time: 5:30-6:30 pm
Yana Valachovic of University of CA Cooperative Extension demonstrates how preliminary post wildfire assessments show the significance of Home Hardening and Defensible Space.
Zoom link will be posted soon.
Meet your speaker here.
Thursday, May 8
Ready Mono Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Location: June Lake Community Center
Time: 11:00-2:00 pm
Ready Mono welcomes Beth Burnam, Regional Firewise USA Coordinator for a Home Hardening Workshop with hands-on practical application at a demonstration home.
Enjoy light refreshments and receive home preparedness incentives at the Whitebark Resource Table.
Saturday, May 10
TOML Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Location: Community Recreation Center, Mammoth Lakes
Time: 9:00-12:00 pm
Residents are encouraged to utilize this FREE disposal day to remove combustible materials from their property and receive home preparedness incentives at the Whitebark Resource Table.
For more information, visit the Town of Mammoth Lakes website.
Saturday, May 17
ESLT Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Location: Eastern Sierra Land Trust Backyard, 250 N. Fowler Street, Bishop
Time: 9:00-12:00 pm
All are invited to attend ESLT’s Garden Fest and visit the Whitebark Institute table to learn recommendations for creating defensible space when planting around your home.
For more information, visit the Eastern Sierra Land Trust website.
Saturday, May 17
Inf Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Location: To Be Announced – must register in advance.
Time: 8:00-12:00 pm
The Inyo National Forest with support from Friends of the Inyo, Camp Like a Pro and Whitebark Institute is offering a volunteer opportunity to improve conditions in dispersed camping areas around Mammoth Lakes.
Register here.
Sunday, May 18
Mules day Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Location: event entrance, Mule Days at Bishop County Fairgrounds.
Time: All Day
Whitebark Institute, along with State and Federal agencies, will provide information about wildfire prevention efforts for the Eastern Sierra region.
Friday, May 23 – Sunday May 25
Mammoth chamber Event
Wildfire Resilience Week
Online: Mammoth Chamber Community Coffee Webinar
Time: 8:30-9:30 am
In this presentation, Whitebark Institute will celebrate Community Directed Grant award recipients and Mammoth Lakes Fire Department will provide updates about the summer wildland program and the development of a new Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
Zoom link will be posted soon.
Thursday May 29
Whitebark Event
Science On TAp
Join us at T-Bar Social Club in June Lake for the second of our 2025 Science on Tap speaker series.
You’ll hear from Char Miller, W.M. Keck Professor of Environmental Analysis & History, about the history of fire suppression.
The event opens at 6 p.m. and the talk begins at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 11
Whitebark Event
Science On TAp
Join us at Main Street Pizza & Tap for the third of our 2025 Science on Tap speaker series.
You’ll hear from Marc Meyer, Forest Service Ecologist, about how forest-dependent wildlife is impacted by wildfires in the Sierra Nevada.
The event opens at 6 p.m. and the talk begins at 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, July 16
FireWorks Educator Workshop
FREE classroom-ready resources & hands-on training on wildland fire science. Held at the Inyo County Office of Education.
RegisterEvent Details
The FireWorks Educational Program aims to positively impact wildland fire science education in the Eastern Sierra by providing a FREE hands-on training and classroom-ready resources to teachers, educators, community leaders and agency communicators in the region.
This program is highly interdisciplinary and aligned to the NGSS standards and CA curriculum. It provides interactive, hands-on activities for studying fire behavior, fire ecology, and human influences on different fire-dependent forest types in the Sierra Nevada region. It also promotes understanding and integration of numerous concepts: properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, plant and animal habitat and survival, and human interactions with ecosystems.
The use of FireWorks will help each of the participants increase the understanding of wildland fire as well as learn how to share the information in a practical way in their communities which currently is a critical need since the declining forest health across the West, coupled with a rapidly intensifying wildfire trajectory fueled by a changing climate are making our landscapes primed for catastrophic wildfire.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Saturday November 2, 2024 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday November 3, 2024 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
* Coffee, snacks and lunch will be provided during each day.
MATERIAL PROVIDED
Each participant will receive a curriculum containing more than 40 hands-on activities applicable to the Sierra Nevada region and a trunk of materials for educators to share which includes laboratory equipment, specimens and posters.
For more information about the program visit www.frames.gov/fireworks
The FireWorks program is produced by the Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) of the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) and brought to you by Whitebark Institute. Funding for the workshop is provided by Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation.
FireWorks Educator Workshop
FREE classroom-ready resources & hands-on training on wildland fire science. Held at the Inyo County Office of Education.
RegisterEvent Details
The FireWorks Educational Program aims to positively impact wildland fire science education in the Eastern Sierra by providing a FREE hands-on training and classroom-ready resources to teachers, educators, community leaders and agency communicators in the region.
This program is highly interdisciplinary and aligned to the NGSS standards and CA curriculum. It provides interactive, hands-on activities for studying fire behavior, fire ecology, and human influences on different fire-dependent forest types in the Sierra Nevada region. It also promotes understanding and integration of numerous concepts: properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, plant and animal habitat and survival, and human interactions with ecosystems.
The use of FireWorks will help each of the participants increase the understanding of wildland fire as well as learn how to share the information in a practical way in their communities which currently is a critical need since the declining forest health across the West, coupled with a rapidly intensifying wildfire trajectory fueled by a changing climate are making our landscapes primed for catastrophic wildfire.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Saturday November 2, 2024 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday November 3, 2024 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
* Coffee, snacks and lunch will be provided during each day.
MATERIAL PROVIDED
Each participant will receive a curriculum containing more than 40 hands-on activities applicable to the Sierra Nevada region and a trunk of materials for educators to share which includes laboratory equipment, specimens and posters.
For more information about the program visit www.frames.gov/fireworks
The FireWorks program is produced by the Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) of the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) and brought to you by Whitebark Institute. Funding for the workshop is provided by Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation.
FireWorks Educator Workshop
FREE classroom-ready resources & hands-on training on wildland fire science. Held at the Inyo County Office of Education.
RegisterEvent Details
The FireWorks Educational Program aims to positively impact wildland fire science education in the Eastern Sierra by providing a FREE hands-on training and classroom-ready resources to teachers, educators, community leaders and agency communicators in the region.
This program is highly interdisciplinary and aligned to the NGSS standards and CA curriculum. It provides interactive, hands-on activities for studying fire behavior, fire ecology, and human influences on different fire-dependent forest types in the Sierra Nevada region. It also promotes understanding and integration of numerous concepts: properties of matter, chemical and physical processes, ecosystem fluctuations and cycles, plant and animal habitat and survival, and human interactions with ecosystems.
The use of FireWorks will help each of the participants increase the understanding of wildland fire as well as learn how to share the information in a practical way in their communities which currently is a critical need since the declining forest health across the West, coupled with a rapidly intensifying wildfire trajectory fueled by a changing climate are making our landscapes primed for catastrophic wildfire.
WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
Saturday November 2, 2024 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
Sunday November 3, 2024 8:30 am – 5:00 pm
* Coffee, snacks and lunch will be provided during each day.
MATERIAL PROVIDED
Each participant will receive a curriculum containing more than 40 hands-on activities applicable to the Sierra Nevada region and a trunk of materials for educators to share which includes laboratory equipment, specimens and posters.
For more information about the program visit www.frames.gov/fireworks
The FireWorks program is produced by the Fire Modeling Institute (FMI) of the US Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program (FFS) and brought to you by Whitebark Institute. Funding for the workshop is provided by Mammoth Mountain Community Foundation.