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MCFSC Hosts Interdisciplinary Fuels Reduction Training
In November, MCFSC hosted an interdisciplinary fuels reduction training at the Brooktrails Greenbelt. The week-long event brough experts from around Mendocino County and the greater North Coast to discuss the varying perspectives on conducting effective fuels...
MCFSC Job Opening – County Fire Safe Coordinator
The Mendocino County Fire Safe Council (MCFSC) is hiring a new County Fire Safe Coordinator. This full-time position is currently funded for 16 months and is set to begin on January 2, 2022, or as negotiated. To be considered please forward a letter of interest,...
Hopland Area Community Wildfire Protection Plan Open for Public Comment December 1st-31st
The Mendocino County Fire Safe Council (MCFSC), in partnership with the California Fire Safe Council, the Community Foundation of Mendocino County, and the US Forest Service, is releasing the DRAFT Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) for the area of Hopland, CA....
Is There Such a Thing as Fire-Wise Landscaping?
Over the years many lists have been developed touting the fire resistance of different species to use in your landscaping, but are they rooted in science? Steven Swain, the Environmental Horticulture Advisor for University of California Cooperative Extension Marin...
California Fire Foundation Fire Lines Newsletter
The California Fire Foundation - assisting families of fallen firefighters, firefighters and the communities they protect. Hope in the Face of a Disaster. View us on page 10.
Community Chipper Days are a Huge Success!
Mendocino County Fire Safe Council’s Neighborhood Chipping Days are quickly becoming an essential service. The program encourages residents to take defensible space into their own hands by offering free service from a chipper & chipper crew to process limbs and...
MCFSC Purchases Chipper Truck With Funding from the California Coastal Conservancy
The Mendocino County Fire Safe Council (MCFSC) is hiring a new County Fire Safe Coordinator. This full-time position is currently funded for 16 months and is set to begin on January 2, 2022, or as negotiated. To be considered please forward a letter of interest,...
A New Beginner’s Home Hardening Guide!
The California Fire Safe Council Climate Action Corps Fellow Lillian Liang produced a great new resource, A Beginner's Guide to a Wildfire Ready Home, as part of the event that rolled out our new equipment trailer (courtesy of LISTOS and the California Fire Safe...
MCFSC Nonprofit of the Year
Assemblymember Jim Wood Honors Mendocino County Fire Safe Council as AD 2’s Nonprofit of the Year SACRAMENTO— Today Assemblymember Jim Wood (D-Santa Rosa) announced that Mendocino County Fire Safe Council (MCFSC) is being honored as Assembly District 2’s 2021...
2021 Brew Fest & Wildfire Expo
Please save the date September 25, 2021. We are bringing to you the Mendocino County Homebrew Festival and Wildfire Expo. For more information please visit https://www.mendohomebrewfest.com/