photo credit: Noah Abrams/KRCB
Fire from a prescribed burn at Pepperwood Preserve
northeast of Santa Rosa safely consumes dry brush
and timber in October 2022.

As the season's first rains fall, KRCB News has been looking at prescribed fire and its role in our Sonoma County landscape.

Following an interview with CalFire's Ben Nicholls, KRCB's Noah Abrams spoke with local writer and community activist Kristina Rizga about her latest article on fire and its place in our local ecology, Learning How to Garden a Forest, out online in Grist Magazine.

You can listen to their conversation about Rizga's journey to controlled burning, it's historic tribal roots, it's current place in the Sonoma County landscape, the important role of local organizations like Pepperwood Preserve, and more, to the left.