Wildfire Resilience Workshops

Mono County RPAC Members:

June 11th - 17th is the Eastern Sierra’s first Wildfire Resilience Week!!!  To celebrate, we have lots of local, fun, free events planned that will help you protect your home and property from wildfire.

  • Want to know how to increase the odds – by a lot – that your house is still standing after a wildfire and do it affordably?
  • Want to tour some local residences and learn what works and doesn’t work?
  • Want to know more about how to get insured and stay insured?

If so, then join your friends and neighbors next week as Mono County, the Whitebark Institute, and Inyo County host a series of fun, informative talks and home tours by nationally-known professional forester and home wildfire defense expert, Yana Valachovich.  Yana will be offering seminars and tours in various communities in Mono County, where she will offer new, cutting-edge, science-based, affordable strategies that will help you and your neighbors create Fire-Adapted Communities.  Everywhere Yana goes, people ask her to come back so we are very happy to have her here with us!

The complete schedule of event can be accessed here.  All events are free, and open to the entire Eastern Sierra community.  If we missed your community and you cannot attend an event at another location or remotely, we are planning on another week with Yana later this year in more communities.

For more questions, contact Wendilyn Grasseschi, Mono County Wildfire Mitigation Coordinator at 970-509-0126 or wgrasseschi@mono.ca.gov.

Here’s a short summary of what we are planning:

SUNDAY, JUNE 11

Wildfire Resilience Week presents:

  • Science on Tap; Wildfire Trivia at June Lake Brewing, 3-5 pm.

Grab your crew, have a brew, and learn something new! Test your Wildfire knowledge for the opportunity to win great prizes. For more event details, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org

MONDAY, JUNE 12

Wildfire Resilience Week presents:

  • ‘Working Toward Resilience/Fire Resilient Home Design’ FREE LUNCH TALK,’ Mammoth, 12-1 p.m.

This FREE Lunch & Learn workshop is tailored for Contractors, Landscapers, Building Suppliers. Must Pre-register for location in Mammoth Lakes.  For more event details and to pre-register, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org

  • ‘Wildfire Insurance for New Home Sales,’ Edison Theatre or Virtual, 3-4 pm. 

This workshop is tailored for Realtors, Home Assessors, Potential Home Buyers. Come in person at the Edison Theatre or join us Virtually.  For the Zoom Link and more event details, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org.

  • ‘A Fire Adapted Communities Presentation,’ Edison Theatre or Virtual, 6-7 p.m.

​UC Forest Advisor, Yana Valachovic will present a talk and engage the audience in a discussion about how we can make our properties more wildfire resilient with defensible space and home hardening.  Come in person at the Edison Theatre or join us virtually.  For the Zoom Link and more event details, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org.​

TUESDAY, JUNE 13

Wildfire Resilience Week presents:

  • ‘Defensible Space Tours for HOAs and House Dwellers,’ Mammoth, 5 -7 p.m.

Meet at Mammoth Park-n-Ride at the corner of Old Mammoth & Tavern Road. We will examine real examples of the techniques we can use to make our properties more wildfire resilient, whether you live in a condo complex or single-family home.  For more event details, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org.

​WEDNESDAY, JUNE 14

Wildfire Resilience Week presents:

  • ‘A Fire Adapted Communities Presentation’ and FREE LUNCH, Crowley Lake Fire Station, 12-1 p.m.

Join UC Forest Advisor Yana Valachovic for this FREE Lunch & Learn at the Long Valley Fire Department station in Crowley for a discussion about how we can make our properties more wildfire resilient with defensible space and home hardening.  For more event details and to pre-register, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org​

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

Wildfire Resilience Week presents:

  • ‘Defensible Space Tours in Inyo County,’ from 9-11 am

We will examine real examples of the techniques we can use to make our properties more wildfire resilient through defensible space and home hardening.  For more event details and location, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org.

THURSDAY, JUNE 15

Wildfire Resilience Week presents:

  • ‘Science On-Tap Wildfire Trivia,’ Mountain Rambler Brewing, 7-8:30 pm 

Grab your crew, have a brew, and learn something new! Test your Wildfire knowledge for the opportunity to win great prizes.  For more event details, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org​

FRIDAY, JUNE 16

Wildfire Resilience Week presents:

  • ‘Defensible Space Tours in Inyo County,’ 9-11 am

We will examine real examples of the techniques we can use to make our properties more wildfire resilient through defensible space and home hardening.  For more event details and location, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org.

  • ‘Working toward Resilience,’ workshop, 5-7 pm

This FREE Happy Hour workshop is tailored for Contractors, Landscapers, and Building Suppliers. Must Pre-register for location in Bishop.  For more event details and to pre-register, visit WhitebarkInstitute.org.

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