Find it where you listen to podcasts. So, today were going to be talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation unexpectedly changes the places we set aside as parks and protected areas. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of the protective spaces but to make the process more visual, to make it easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time but why they have changed over time. We think of some things staying the thing. This changes things. Thats the focus were going to aim at today. And im going to theres often a presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect ownership. We see the series on americas parks called americas best idea, that natural spaces that have trails and for hiking and sightseeing and so on are representative of pure pristine nature thats had some boundaries put around it and its been kept the same like a vase in a museum, just kind of static and never cha
Wave and a pandemic. We will bring that to you live when he begins. First, a snapshot of the fires around the bay area right now. Cal fire is grouping them into a few named complexes. Each one made up of several fires spanning several counties. We have Team Coverage from the fire lines, tracking the latest evacuations and updating the latest weather conditions. Evacuations underway right now in napa county near the lightning complex fire. People on monticello road, hope valley road, Aetna Springs road, budd canyon road, and daines creek road are all being asked to grab what they can and leave. Hadestroyed or damaged about 100 homes so far. It has burned more than 46,000 acres, almost the size of the city of oakland and still no progress on containment. In vacaville, do evacuation orders along shelton lane and Browns Valley road. Cal fire just giving an update on the firefight within the last hour. Right , we ainfive counties. What that means is cooperation. By cooperation, he means get
Most all sparked by recent lightning. The governor is expected to given up date. We will bring it that News Conference live once it gets underway. We do have team coverage. We are monitoring those evacuations in san mateo and santa cruz. We will have the latest information on the lightning complex fire that has destroyed several homes already near vacaville. Sarah, good afternoon. Reporter cal fire actually just wrapped up a News Conference 30 minutes ago and gave us an up date about the lmu complex. There are several different fires burning across the state. Hellfire has requested 375 fire engines to help with all of the fires burning in california. The lmu lightning complex has limited resources at this point. It is a blades made up of seven different fires. It has burned 72 square miles and five counties including napa, lake, sonoma, solano, and yolo county. 60 fires were started by Lightning Strikes. This led us to this point. 50 structures have been destroyed. 50 have been damaged
Talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation unexpectedly changes the places that we set aside as parks or other protected. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces, but then also to make the process of preservation more visible, to make easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but sort of more importantly, why they changed over time. Because most of us, when we think about preservation, we think about some things staying the same, and yet preservation actually things. So thats really kind of the focus were going to aim at today. And im going to manage this. So there we go. So in the context of of open space lands here in the u. S. , were often there sort of this presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect the landscape. And we even see, you know, the the mini series by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks that was called am
Talking about landscapes and preservation and sort of how preservation unexpectedly changes the places that we set aside as parks or other protected. The intention here is really not only to sort of understand the history of these kinds of protected spaces, but then also to make the process of preservation more visible, to make easier to understand not only the history of parks and how they have changed over time, but sort of more importantly, why they changed over time. Because most of us, when we think about preservation, we think about some things staying the same, and yet preservation actually things. So thats really kind of the focus were going to aim at today. And im going to manage this. So there we go. So in the context of of open space lands here in the u. S. , were often there sort of this presumption that Public Ownership is the best way to protect the landscape. And we even see, you know, the the mini series by ken burns from a ways back on National Parks that was called am