South Fork Eel field trip

This field trip was organized as part of the Wildfire Resilience Task Force Regional Meeting Oct. 1 2026. We visited a number of active and successful sites in Northern Mendocino,CA - engaging with beneficial fire, wildfire resilience, restoration work, and community development. If you were on this trip, you can contribute to the conversation by emailing geotagged photos (ask your organizer) and engaging with the spatially anchored discussion. If you were not, it’s a way to learn about some great success stories in the space, and see a use of the Fire Atlas a bit different from its usual role in fire planning and response.

For general context, here’s a high level 3D view looking over Laytonville. Hargus & Tan Oak Park are at the top right, and we’re looking across Cahto Creek and Bransomb Road toward Angelo Preserve: 3D Terrain - South_Fork_Eel

Next, here are some preset links to views around the areas we visited. You can zoom around, and use the Visibility panel at left to change what you’re seeing, and use the “share” button at right to share/save any particular view you find interesting (Ctl-click to mark a specific point in a view).

Here’s where we started at Tan Oak Park, with a lidar derived landscape and H3 hexagons colored by building density: south_fork_eel

Here’s Hargus Road - you can click on the green photo icons to see images from various stages of the treatments. You may also note an iNaturaist observation of a NW Pond Turtle nearby! south_fork_eel

At Cahto Creek, we see a ladder fuel density lidar plot and photos from a previous field trip - Brock stuffing gullies! south_fork_eel

Finishing up at the Angelo Preserve, we’re looking at a few layers - the green hexes are (p95, r9) Canopy Height from lidar ; the red/yellow patches show the Lodge Fire burn; and the three “eye” icons show some detailed lidar analysis of specific points with different Lodge burn impacts: south_fork_eel