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Wildfire Resilience Summit

Create a regularly occurring opportunity for cross sector sharing learnings and collaborating on potential policy, actions and projects.

HOA Grazing Resilience Planning and Implementation

Develop and pilot a replicable process and framework for developing wildfire resilience plans for housing developments in high fire risk areas.

Bucket Brigade Academy

Create and implement an education program to build youth resilience to climate change induced crises. This project builds local capacity to quickly respond to wildfire and other disasters in a coordinated and responsive way.

Post Disaster Research Fund

Create a fund to study ecological/ecosystem recovery processes. Studies would include, at a minimum, a baseline biological assessment after every disaster, to identify sensitive natural communities, threats (i.e. invasive species vectors/vulnerabilities) and priorities for mitigation/restoration.

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City of Santa Barbara Wildfire Resiliency Project

The Parks and Recreation Department and Fire Department have partnered to improve the community’s fire resilience and reduce the risk and severity of wildfires. The collaboration balances the expertise of both teams to manage vegetation while protecting the natural ecosystems within the city’s open space parks. This work is a critical component of Santa Barbara’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan.

Bucket Brigade Academy

Community Supported Grazing Summit

Host a series of convenings or summits to develop a framework for a community supported grazing program.

Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)

Implement a Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) and cooperative burns to provide experiential training that builds robust local capacity for…

Fire Fuel Management at Arroyo Hondo Preserve

In June of 2021, the Land Trust of Santa Barbara received a grant of $23,588 from the Coastal Conservancy for a targeted prescribed grazing project at the Arroyo Hondo Preserve, a project that the RPP team had identified through their outreach efforts to the Land Trust and helped facilitate funding for.

Researching Flammability Traits of Common SoCal Native Plants - The Fire Wise Project

The Fire Wise Project is a collaborative effort among multiple agencies and institutions in the Santa Barbara area, including UCSB, Westmont College, and the SB Botanic Garden.

Regional Lompoc Valley Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)

The Lompoc region has been identified as a high priority for fire prevention activities by the modeling completed by the RPP team but the region lacks a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP).

Dangermond Preserve Fire Resilience Projects

The Nature Conservancy stewards the 24,000-acre Jack and Laura Dangermond Preserve (JLDP) at Point Conception. JLDP is of biological and cultural significance regionally and globally.

Restoration with a Fire Resilience Focus: Mapping and Removal of Invasive and Non-native Species that Exacerbate Fire Risk

The restoration recommendations detailed in other restoration items in the Regional Priority Plan would also require the removal of invasive and non-native species from other high priority areas in the WUI.

Restoration with a Fire Resilience Focus: Riparian Restoration in Goleta Valley to Reduce Fire Risk

Healthy riparian corridors with natural unimpaired hydrology are natural fire breaks, with well watered vegetation acting to catch and extinguish embers and dampen fire advancement.

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HOA Grazing Resilience Planning and Implementation

Develop and pilot a replicable process and framework for developing wildfire resilience plans for housing developments in high fire risk areas.

Countywide GIS Public-Private Partnership

Many agencies and community based organizations maintain GIS data for internal purposes and needs. As a result, there are multiple specialized systems for particular needs and redundant technical capacity.

Addressing WUI Wildfire Buffer Gaps

The communities throughout Santa Barbara County have varying degrees of wildfire buffer along their WUI edges. Goleta benefits from significant portions of its WUI edged by irrigated orchards

San Antonio Creek Community Defensible Space Project

In June 2021, the Santa Barbara County Fire Department received funding from the State Coastal Conservancy to implement a community defensible space project in the San Antonio Creek area foothills.

Countywide Fine Resolution LIDAR Data

There is a long term need to acquire Santa Barbara County wide, cross jurisdictional, LIDAR data in addition to the periodic orthographic overflights that are undertaken for aerial mosaic mapping product needs.

Campsite Fire Buffers on Paradise Road and Other Recreational Areas Throughout the County

Paradise Road and other public land recreation areas throughout the County are highly visited community resources utilized by all income levels. These areas often include fire pits, grills and picnic areas where…

Prescribed Grazing: Capacity Building - Growing Regional Prescribed Grazing Capacity

A parallel effort to the countywide planning effort is to engage existing prescribed grazing contractors and potential new entrants to assess existing capacity and understand…

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Parma Park Hazardous Fuels Mitigation Project

Parma Park is a City of Santa Barbara owned 200-acre open space park located within the extreme foothill zone of the high fire hazard area. The park is composed of twelve different vegetation communities. The native bigpod ceanothus chaparral community makes up a majority of the park space, followed by the coast live oak woodland and forest community.

Honda Valley Park Vegetation Management

Honda Valley Park is a City of Santa Barbara owned 48-acre open space park located within the coastal interior zone of the high fire hazard area. The park has diverse, dense vegetation along steep slopes and within canyons, as well as a heavy understory of invasive plants and thatch.

Carpinteria Summerland Fire Protection District

In June 2021, the Carpinteria Summerland Fire Protection District received funding from the State Coastal Conservancy to conduct a multi-pronged fuels reduction treatment program…

Developing Indigenous Burning Guidelines

Prescribed fire can help reduce fuel loads in key areas that are safe to burn and where there has been a dearth of fire in the past.

Tepusquet Canyon Vegetation Management Project

Tepusquet Canyon includes underserved communities and low income migrant workers, making this a high priority area from an equity perspective.

Prescribed Grazing: Develop a Countywide Plan

Prescribed grazing (also known as prescribed herbivory) enables fuel treatment in sloped and difficult to access areas where other vegetation management options are challenging or impractical.