Firescape Workshop

ESCAPE MONTEREY
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YOU’RE INVITED & SAVE THE DATES FOR WORKSHOP #8

What: FireScape Monterey Workshop #8: Strategies and Getting to Action
Where: Santa Lucia Preserve (Directions Provided on Page 2)
When: July 26 & 27, 2013
RSVP: Please RSVP by July 22, 2013 by sending an e-mail to FireScapeNow@gmail.com

Agenda:
July 26 – 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m. (Meeting at Event Barn)
1. Welcome by the Preserve
2. Presentation of Strategies, Getting to Action
3. Breakout Session
4. Lunch – Please bring $5.00 for Pizza & Drink
5. Group Discussion led by US Forest Service
a. What happens after wildfire starts?
b. Community Fuelbreak Improvement Project status
6. Closing

July 27th Field Trip – 9:00 a.m. (sharp!) – 12:30 p.m. (Meet at Parking Lot to Carpool)
Please bring water & snack for the field trip
1. Sudden Oak Death & shaded fuel breaks
2. Conservation cattle grazing, prescribed fire & weed management
3. Defensible space around residential structures
4. Roadside fuel management through chaparral

Directions to Event Barn for July 26th
• From Highway 1 in Carmel, drive east on Carmel Valley Road for 2.0 miles to the stoplight at Rancho San Carlos Road.
• At the stoplight, turn right and drive south on Rancho San Carlos Road for about 1.0 mile to the Santa Lucia Preserve gatehouse.
• At the Santa Lucia Preserve gatehouse, tell the gate attendant that you are attending the FireScape Workshop at the “Event Barn”.
• The gatehouse attendant will direct you to proceed about 8.5 miles up Rancho San Carlos Road, where the road will enter a small cluster of buildings.
• Among the cluster of buildings, between the second and third speed bump, there is a large wooden barn on the left side of the road, the Event Barn.
• Turn left immediately after passing the Event Barn, and park in the gravel lot on the north or northeast side of the barn. The main entrance is on the north side.

Directions to Parking Lot for July 27th
• From Highway 1 in Carmel, drive east on Carmel Valley Road for 2.0 miles to the stoplight at Rancho San Carlos Road.
• At the stoplight, turn right and drive south on Rancho San Carlos Road for about 1.0 mile to the Santa Lucia Preserve gatehouse.
• At the Santa Lucia Preserve gatehouse, tell the gate attendant that you are attending the FireScape Workshop at the “Event Barn”.
• The gatehouse attendant will direct you to proceed through the gate, then take an immediate left turn onto Chamisal Pass road.
• About 100 yards up that road, meet the rest of the tour participants in a small gravel parking lot on the right side of the road.
• Tour participants will be asked to carpool, and any vehicles that are not used in the tour can be parked in the back side of the gravel lot.