Fire Nerd Roadtrip

I spent the second week of September doing forest surveys in the Northern Sierra Nevada Mountains - near South Lake Tahoe, and in Plumas County. Most of the forests I saw are starved for fire, and being choked under the weight of 100 years of accumulated forest debris.
If we want to continue to have forests in these places, we need them to have fire - either lit by us, or by nature. But the sheer number of people living on these landscapes makes it almost impossible to use fire as a landscape-scale management tool.
This travelogue shares my photos, videos, and musings on the current state of Northern Sierra forests, prescribed fire, and postfire forest recovery.
Also, we tour Butterfly Valley, near Quincy, where people are coming together to burn their forests in a good way, and we look at how the Feather River Canyon is recovering from the Camp and Dixie Fires.