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Posted in News on Jun 2nd, 2017
The day after the 2017 Foothill Fire, a small group was allowed into the field station to assess damage. Among the group were members of Prof. Matina Donaldson-Matasci‘s Bee Lab at Harvey Mudd Collge, whose bee hives narrowly escaped the fire thanks to the work of the firefighters. The Bee Lab group included HMC student […]
Posted in News on May 20th, 2017
Late in the afternoon of May 18, a fire started inside the BFS fence along College Avenue. Although the fire was thought to have been quickly extinguished, the wind came up and blew embers east so that the fire quickly spread to pHake Lake and along the south shore of the lake. The fire eventually […]
Posted in News on Oct 1st, 2014
Nature has conspired to create a couple of heightened risks for working at the BFS this weekend, and, just to be safe, we’ve canceled the this Saturday’s volunteer workday. Here’s what’s going on: Heightened fire danger: Beginning tonight and continuing into next week, our area is expecting unusually high temperatures, extremely low humidity, and high […]
Posted in News on Apr 24th, 2014
On the April 19 Workday, a terrific group of volunteers, including students from Citrus and Mt. San Antonio College as well as community members and Claremont Colleges faculty, worked on two projects – removing Maltese Star Thistles and sampling plants in the experimental plots in the burn area. The attack on Maltese Star Thistles (Centaurea […]
Posted in News on Oct 4th, 2013
Because of very low humidity and strong Santa Ana winds, the National Weather Service has issued a “Red Flag Warning” for extreme fire danger for LA County and surrounding regions. We have consequently been asked to curtail all activities at the BFS for the next few days. As a result, the BFS volunteer workday scheduled […]
On the afternoon of September 11, sparks from power tools used by a Golden State Water Company Crew started a fire in the Foothill Boulevard Parkway that quickly spread into the field station. Approximately 17 acres along the Foothill frontage between Dartmouth and Mills Avenues were burned before the fire was extinguished. Los Angeles County […]
Posted in News on Sep 2nd, 2012
Fire season is now upon us. A wildfire – now dubbed the “Williams Fire” – broke out at about 2 pm today in the Los Angeles National Forext approximately 10 mi northeast of the BFS, and the smoke from the fire was very visible at the BFS this afternoon. By 9:00 pm tonight, the Williams […]
Posted in News on Sep 23rd, 2009
Another fire week is upon us and it didn’t take long for breakouts near Fillmore and another in Norco. The NOAA has now extended the time frame for triple digit temps and single digit humidities from Tuesday-Thursday to Tuesday-Sunday. Surely more fires will be set in the next few days, hopefully not anywhere near BFS. […]