Join us for the last COSF Speaker Series event of 2020 – Wildfire in the Open Space: History, Recovery and Climate Change
On Thursday, Nov. 12th at 6:30 pm, renowned fire ecologist, Dr. Marti Wiitter will give an online presentation of the fire history of the Santa Monica Mountains, how plants and wildlife have recovered after recent fires and what role climate change is playing here and in other parts of California. Additionally, she’ll discuss how solutions to protect homes and landscapes may vary for different geographic areas in California and what will work best in our region.
Dr. Witter is a 35-year resident of the Santa Monica Mountains and has been the fire ecologist for the National Park Service in the Santa Monica Mountains since 2001. Before joining the NPS she worked for the Resource Conservation District of the Santa Monica Mountains and was working for the City of Malibu as City Biologist during the 1993 Old Topanga Fire and the 1996 Calabasas Fire. She received a BS in Biology from the University of California, Irvine, an MS in Forestry from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and a PhD from the University of Hawaii.
This will be another Zoom webinar presentation. To sign up for this event, go to http://cosf.org/events/register/ and fill in the form. We will send instructions on how to join the webinar presentation to those who sign up on the day before the event.
This is a free event. We suggest a donation of $10 to support future Speaker Series presentations in 2021 and our other activities that help sustain the open space for us all to enjoy.
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