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Turns out that reviving oaks is not too difficult ...🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌰
#OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife
Coast live oaks regaining their health in Monterey CA
Four years ago I began fire mimicry treatments on a grove of coast live oaks overlooking Monterey, CA. I’m quite pleased with the results but I’ll let trees speak for themselves …
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December 17, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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Yesterday I visited an oak grove in Monterey that was hit hard by an oakworm infestation in 2017. Following a couple of fire mimicry treatments the oaks seem to be recovering nicely!
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#OakHealth #Oakworm #FireMimicry
More results on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations in coastal California
Last year I shared a post on a non-toxic treatment for oakworm infestations here on the Central Coast of California. In that post I stated: “In 2017 there was a severe oakworm infestation of …
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December 4, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Moving forward, one tree at a time ...
#OakHealth #SuddenOakDeath #SuddenOakLife #FireMimicry 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰
Another successful canker surgery on an ancient coast live oak
This is a 2017 image of an old-growth coast live oak in Monterey that I’ve been treating with fire mimicry for eight years. At that time it had bleeding stem canker infection, possibly Sudden…
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December 4, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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I love my job! 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🧪🌐🪶🌱🦅🌰 #FireMimicry #OakHealth #SuddenOakLife
Oaks in Fulton Feeling the Love
Yesterday I examined a grove of coast live oaks that have undergone fire mimicry treatments for the past five years. Some of these oaks are centuries old and show signs of being tended by the Nativ…
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November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
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Save the date! #OakHealth #FireMimicry #TEK 🌎🍁🌲🔥🌳🪶🌱🦅🌰 www.smmfsc.org/oakworkshop
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July 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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Here's a video where I'm giving an oak tree a shave ...
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May 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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I concocted a new potion for the oaks yesterday ... results coming next year. #OakHealth #FireMimicry #SuddenOakLife 🌎🌲🍁🔥🌳🧪🌐🌱🪶🌰
May 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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*** JOB OPOORTUNITY***
We're still looking for qualified applicants!
Hiring: Oak Restoration Apprentice | Esselen Tribe of Monterey County #firemimicry #culturalfire #oakhealth 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳🦅🪶
Hiring: Oak Restoration Apprentice | Esselen
The Ancestor Oak Restoration Apprenticeship is a seasonal position that has been created to offer involvement of the Esselen Tribe of Monterey County
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January 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Four years of doing nothing ... #oakhealth #restorationecology #firemimicry 🌎🌲🔥🍁🌳
Four years of doing nothing …
I often tell people inquiring on how to best care for their oaks that doing nothing is not an option! It seems that most people see oaks as native trees of California that have adapted and endured …
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December 31, 2024 at 7:23 PM
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Today I did a house call on this coast live oak under my care (Case Study 20211215.9). It seems to be doing better ... #firemimicry #oakhealth 🌎🌲🔥🌐🍁🌳🧪
December 20, 2024 at 4:27 AM
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Six-year results of a native forest restoration project in a grove of old-growth coast live oaks showing the efficacy of emulating fire to improve the health and longevity of fire-adapted trees. #oakhealth #firemimicry #suddenoakdeath 🌎🌐🌲🔥
Oak restoration project in Boulder Creek, CA – 2024 Update
Six years ago I began a forest restoration project in Boulder Creek, CA using fire mimicry treatments to help improve the health of a grove of coast live oaks, some of which are likely more than 25…
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December 6, 2024 at 7:38 PM
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Last week my grandson and I painted the trunks of several oak trees with a traditional limewash, something my grandfather did with my dad many years ago. So why DO we paint the trunks of trees white?
#oakhealth #limewash #trees 🌎
Applying traditional limewash to the trunk of an oak
November 26, 2024 at 6:43 PM
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An ancient oak on the mend ...
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November 21, 2024 at 4:55 PM
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A coast live oak recovering from colonization with the help of fire mimicry. #oakhealth #firemimicry
November 19, 2024 at 1:28 AM
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More oaks recovering from colonization!
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Coast live oaks in Salinas recovering after 4 years
In 2020 a good friend contacted me about care for his sick oaks. I immediately responded and applied fire mimicry treatments on several of his oaks, including a control oak that I did not treat (se…
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November 15, 2024 at 6:05 PM
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ICYMI
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California announces largest land return in state's history
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November 15, 2024 at 6:01 PM
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The Old Oaks Home
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The Old Oaks Home
There’s a special place near Monterey that is an oak lover’s dream – over 600 acres of undeveloped, intact old-growth oak forest and savanna, never burned, that I’ve been co…
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November 15, 2024 at 6:00 PM
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Big Sur oaks recovering from colonization!
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Big Sur oaks recovering from colonization
Here are four coast live oaks and a black oak we treated back in 2020. Some additional surgery was done in 2022 to remove lingering canker infections on the oak above. While the above ancestor oak …
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November 15, 2024 at 5:55 PM