Poster exhibited at California SAF/UCCE California Forest Science Symposium, Sacramento, CA,  February 19, 2026.

Our CFCF poster, prepared by Ethan Luckens of Beaver State Forestry, was one of approximately 40 posters at the 2026 California Forest Science Symposium of the UCCE (University of CA Cooperative Extension service) . This session drew the entire crowd of CFSS attendees- about 250- as it was held in the grand ballroom as part of the social hour at the end of a full day of research presentations.

People quietly read the 4 rows of posters, and also gathered in front of the posters for socializing and networking based on the posters’ content.

Our poster received more than its fair share of interest. Fred Euphrat was delighted to see himself in our poster, in a photo of a workshop. Wearing the same hat as in the photo, he mirrored his photo position, while others took i-photos of the ‘2 Freds’. Fred regaled us with the social context of the Sonoma County rural setting of the Coast Ridge Community Forest, and of the interactions with which that group, over time, formed and interacted with the Volunteer Fire District to make the community safer from wildfire. Matt Greene, RPF, a ‘local’ for many years, practices hyperlocal, tech-informed forestry, blending it with longtime community organizing to strengthen community fire resilience and help its forest landowners obtain state grants at landscape scale to do its needed fuel reduction and fire readiness improvements.
The poster describes the community effort, and Matt Greene’s development of an app based on Survey123 (existing software), to aid community organizing of forest landowners, and the collection of fire district data relating to past local wildfire location and frequency, fire location prediction, and fire escape route improvement, as they seek Governor Newsom’s Executive Order fast-tracked state grant funding. It was this community organizing/data collection work for which CFCF supplied significant, timely funding.

The audience for this poster included consulting foresters,  natural resource students interested in use of the app in their own geographic areas, mid- and high-level state regulatory staffers, and members of the subject community itself.  Mr. Euphrat regaled the small group with his  years of attempting to organize this isolated coastal community for fuel reduction/fire resilience work.  A regulatory staffer asked “Was there a weak link in the process”, noting that the intent of regulators in drafting the EDD regulations which are part of the requirements of the Emergency Order grant application process, was to simplify that process, while not lessening environmental protections.  These lively conversations added to the poster information greatly. 

CFCF invites others to apply the app based on Survey123, whose story the poster tells,  to their own communities. To this end, the poster includes contact information for the app’s creator, and for CFCF.  The poster, printed on polyester, will be used again at upcoming UCCE Tree Schools and future events which CFCF board members attend. To learn more, please see the contact information on the poster itself.

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