Dr. Lisa Micheli will present a special program through the California Department of Fish and Wildlife Conservation Lecture Series on Tuesday, Sept. 10.

Scheduled from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Natural Resources Building, First Floor Auditorium, 1416 Ninth St., Sacramento, the presentation is titled “Report from a Russian River field station in the heart of the 2017 wildfire zone: Pepperwood’s integrated approach to evaluating and advancing landscape resilience.”

In October 2017, more than 90 percent of Pepperwood’s 3,200-acre research reserve burned in the Tubbs Fire, providing an incredible opportunity to leverage nearly a decade of weather, hydrology and ecology data collection to improve our empirical understanding of fire in California’s Coast Ranges. While the organization regroups to rebuild critical facilities lost in the inferno, their ecologists are inventorying the impacts of the fire and scaling up what they are learning to inform resilience strategies across California as a whole. This presentation will highlight some early findings, share how Pepperwood will serve as a living laboratory for fire recovery and habitat restoration and highlight successful collaborations focused on building a knowledge base to support climate and fire resilience strategies in California’s inner Coast Ranges and beyond. Attendance is free.

To register and for more information, visit www.wildlife.ca.gov/conservation/lectures.