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Tag: fire recovery

Many hands are tending this land

Posted on: December 20, 2022 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
Many hands are tending this land In the past few months, the Rill has been blessed with so many caring hands, tending to the land as we recover from the 2020 Glass Fire and nurture a more climate-resilient and wildfire-resilient…
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Two years after the fire – we are rebuilding!

Posted on: October 2, 2022 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
Two years after the fire – we are rebuilding! Our blog has been pretty quiet these past months, but that does not mean we have not been busy. We have been deep in the process of finalizing our permit submittals…
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Spring Oak Blitz

Posted on: April 19, 2022 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
 Help us Regenerate Oak Woodlands at Monan’s Rill  Connect, Collect, and Protect at our Spring Oak Blitz – May 7, 10am-2pm What makes an oak ecosystem healthy? How can we heal from centuries of fire suppression and regenerate healthy forests? In this…
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Help the Rill Envision Our Rebuild!

Posted on: January 12, 2022 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
Help the Rill Envision Our Rebuild! Dear friends and supporters of Monan’s Rill,  It has been fourteen months since the Glass Fire, and we are deep in the planning process for rebuilding new homes that will be simple, beautiful, climate…
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One year after the fire

Posted on: September 28, 2021 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
One year after the fire This morning dawned at Monan’s Rill with a few pink clouds in a clear blue sky. As the sun rose, drops of yesterday’s rain still dripped from oak leaves, and clung to the tips of…
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One Step Closer to Rebuilding…

Posted on: August 28, 2021 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
One Step Closer to Rebuilding… Debris removal is complete! At the end of July, more than ten months after the Glass Fire and three rounds of excavator scraping later, our wildfire debris and ash removal was finally completed! Crews came to…
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Post-fire ecology and future prescribed burns

Posted on: June 24, 2021 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
Post-fire ecology and future prescribed burns: A visit with Fire Forward We had the good fortune to spend a morning with the team from Audubon Canyon Ranch’s Fire Forward program —Dr. Sasha Berleman, Brian Peterson, and Garrett Gradillas — walking the…
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Community Workdays are Vibrant and Important, Still

Posted on: May 20, 2021 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
Community Workdays are Vibrant and Important, Still Through the wildfire last fall, many of the nutrients in vegetation, trees, and dead leaves and branches were released into the soil, leading to unprecedented growth of plants like wild radish, thistles, malva,…
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Goodbye to the Structures of Our Lives

Posted on: May 16, 2021 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
Goodbye to the Structures of Our Lives Just two weeks ago, seven months after the Glass Fire, excavators finally arrived at the Rill to clear away our burn debris – the remains of our homes, barn, community toy shed, wood…
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Savoring Spring In So Many Ways

Posted on: April 29, 2021 Last updated on: March 15, 2024 Written by: admin
Spring at the Rill has been lively! We’ve been able to watch the lush recovery of our land in real time. Birdlife, fungi, lizards and snakes, jackrabbits, new fawns, oak shoots, stump-sprouting toyon and madrone, honeybees (finally), and the flowers.…
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