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🌟 Vibrant Views: Explore Our Latest Blogposts! 🌟 Dive into our Vibrant Views blog for exciting articles that illuminate pathways to a brighter, more vibrant planet. Discover insights, stories, and innovative ideas on sustainability, resilience, and community-driven change. Check it out now and join us in making a positive impact on our world: https://lnkd.in/e7rfaxBs #Sustainability #ClimateAction #VibrantPlanet #CommunityResilience #EcoFriendly

We're searching for a program manager with a background in community wildfire protection planning to join our team! Key qualifications: 🔥 Great communication, facilitation, leadership, and/or storytelling skills 🔥 Knowledge of community wildfire planning processes, including Community Wildfire Protection Plan development or community wildlife risk mitigation techniques A few of the perks: 🌲 Fully-remote company with competitive pay and benefits 🌲 Join a mission-driven company filled with smart, kind, and passionate folks Learn more and apply here: https://lnkd.in/exCCJPHv #wildfire #wildlandfire #fire #firesafety #firejobs #pmjobs #climatejobs

🌍🔥 Ecological Perspectives on Land Management & Wildfire 🌲 Today, we shift our focus to the ecological perspectives that influence our understanding of land management and wildfire. While wildfires are often viewed as destructive events, they are also integral to the renewal and regeneration of ecosystems. Fire helps maintain healthy forests, promote nutrient cycling, and creates diverse habitats that support a variety of plant and animal species. Fire-adapted plants (such as Bishop pine) rely on periodic burns to thrive, and fire can help clear out accumulated debris, reducing the risk of larger, more catastrophic wildfires in the future. However, fire repressive land management practices have led to an overload of fuels that often make wildfires more destructive than healing. Recent studies and ecological research highlight the importance of embracing fire as a management tool to restore and maintain healthy ecosystems. Managed burns, prescribed fires, and other controlled methods can mimic natural fire regimes and, thereby, produce the same benefits like enhancing biodiversity, reducing fuel loads, and fostering resilient landscapes. At Vibrant Planet we integrate prescribed burns into our land management practices to contribute to sustainable wildfire mitigation and ecosystem health. Read more about the effect of fire suppression and the benefits of prescribed burns in the following article: https://lnkd.in/eRavGAYA #LandManagement #EcologicalPerspectives #WildfireResilience 🌿🔥

🚒🌲 Exciting News from Truckee Fire Protection District! 🌲🚒 Truckee Fire faces constant wildfire risks, requiring regular updates to their Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs). Traditionally, this process has been resource-intensive and slow, relying on outdated methods. We’re thrilled to share how by partnering with Vibrant Planet, Truckee Fire has transformed their CWPP process with our cloud-based scenario-building and decision-support tool. Together we his innovative platform has: ✅ Utilized advanced fuels hazard modeling for CWPP risk assessment ✅ Aligned core project team’s priorities using consensus scenario function ✅ Used custom data to optimize CWPP projects at the treatment unit-level Learn more about our work and the impact we’re making: https://lnkd.in/e6XimU6K #WildfirePrevention #CommunitySafety #InnovationInAction #VibrantPlanet #TruckeeFire

🌍🔥 Perspectives on Land Management & Wildfire Series 🌲 This week: Cultural Perspectives Today, we delve into the cultural perspective of the native Americans on land management and wildfire. Indigenous communities in the Pacific West of North America have long depended on fire to steward their environments. They view fire as a restorative tool that has benefits like promoting resilience to wildfire and drought, conserving biocultural diversity, and maintaining traditional knowledge and spiritual values. Once their practice of cultural burning was heavily banned but now Native Americans are increasingly asked for advice on how fire can be reintroduced to the land. This does not only constitute a healing ability for the environment but also a way that Native people can reconnect with their homelands. Read more on tribal and indigenous fire traditions in the following article:  https://lnkd.in/eQ2p6Guw  #LandManagement #NativePerspectives #WildfireResilience 🌿🔥

🌲 Friday's Forest Fact 🌲   Inland freshwater wetlands and peatlands, cover just 6% of the land, yet hold over 30% of the world's soil organic carbon (SOC). Therefore, they are crucial for carbon storage. Protecting these areas is essential, as they store carbon accumulated over centuries. Recent legal rulings risk further loss, highlighting the need for comprehensive SOC mapping to preserve these invaluable carbon sinks. 🛑🌍 #ForestFact #Wetlands #CarbonStorage #ClimateAction

🌍 Accelerate Climate Action with Open Science! 🌍 Operating transparently is central to how our teams and technologies work. We’re committed to democratizing access to data as part of our mission as a public benefit corporation, but also the way in which we make the most informed use of the time and resources we have. Our technology is already making a difference, deployed across nearly 30 million acres in the western US and mapping nearly half a billion trees using remote sensing and machine learning. Join us in building a resilient future! Learn more by visiting https://lnkd.in/g3au2-W2 🌿✨ #OpenScience #ClimateAction #WildfireResilience #VibrantPlanet 

“Harnessing technology to map and protect our ecosystems is not just a tool, it’s a necessity.” In CleanTechies’s latest episode, CEO, @Allison Wolff joined @Somil Aggarwal to share her take on: 🌲 Leveraging geospatial data and technology to tackle environmental challenges. 🔥 The role of mapping, data analysis, and system building in supporting biodiversity and ecosystem management. 🗺️ How past technological experiences, including recommendation and subscription systems, are shaping today’s environmental solutions. Hear more about how technology is key to supporting biodiversity and ecosystem management here: https://lnkd.in/evJkDFgV 

🌲 Boost Your Community's Wildfire Resilience with Land Tender! 🌲 Across the Western US, large-scale landscape wildfire resilience strategies are being implemented, requiring complex analyses and collaboration. Vibrant Planet’s platform, Land Tender, now offers communities within our 35M acre footprint access to these valuable analytics at no cost! With Land Tender, you can: 🌱 Collaborate Across Boundaries 🌱 Assess Risk 🌱 Build a dynamic, actionable Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) 🌱 Identify High-Impact Work 🌱 Prioritize Home Inspections Communities like Truckee Fire Protection District have already benefited from our platform, achieving significant results in record time. As Dillon Sheedy from Truckee Fire Protection District notes, “In just 9 weeks, we used Vibrant Planet to build our CWPP – a process that normally takes over a year.” We welcome communities in the Sierra Nevada, Front Range Colorado, Southern Oregon, Enchanted Circle, Southern California, and Southwest Idaho to explore how Land Tender can enhance your wildfire resilience efforts. Check out the following blogpost and learn how to boost your community’s wilfire resilience with land tender! https://lnkd.in/eu8PMWNK

🌲 Friday's forest fact: 🌲 Did you know that wildfire damages cost the U.S. $394 billion to $893 billion a year? A 2023 analysis by Congress' joint Economic Committee found this after analyzing the economic impact wildfire damages have on real estate values, property, watersheds, timber insurers and more.  Overgrown forests are partly to blame for the severity and rapid spread of wildfires and thus for the extent of damages incurred. However, Vibrant Planet's tool Landtender enables decision-makers at every level to assess and address, in near-real-time, the wildfire risk factors such as overgrown forests.  Want to learn more? Then check out: https://lnkd.in/ewksr7C4 Stay tuned for next Friday's Forest Fact!