Where is the Wild After Wildfire? - Livestream

Forests that have experienced fire are vibrant, dazzling, full of life, and rapidly regenerating. Wildflowers and thousands of tree seedlings are bursting from the earth; the air is full of birdsong. The flowers attract insects, which attract birds and smaller mammals, which in turn attract the raptors and larger mammals. And so the cascading effects continue! Because our understanding is young and rather new, it is quite common to see these public forests logged very soon after wildfire. The best of the young forests - saplings and wildflowers and entire watersheds - are razed to the ground to support plantation-style projects. But there is plenty of hope! Join us as Maya Khosla shares a visually exquisite celebration of wilderness and an awareness of the challenges involved with saving it.

In 2016, Maya completed a film about woodpeckers - Searching for the Gold Spot: The Wild after Wildfire (hint: the male Black-backed Woodpecker has a gold spot on his head!), screening the film all over the US. Since that time, Maya has been documenting bears, foxes, Pacific fishers, bobcats and mountain lions - all utilizing the beautiful post fire forests (that are intact, not logged). Maya will share slides of rare Black-backed Woodpeckers, Goshawks, Spotted Owls, their young, and many other animals using forests soon after wildfire - a surprise and a new sense of hope for all. With Valentine's Day around the corner, we'll also hear about the way pairs of animals bond with each other!

Speaker: Maya Khosla, wildlife biologist

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