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Via email from Glendale’s Urban Forester:

Theodore Payne Foundation and Glendale Public Works will present a free lecture – Southern California Wildfires: Protecting our Homes and the Natural Environment – this Saturday, November 7 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Clark Magnet High School. Richard W. Halsey and Jon E. Keeley, Ph.D., two of the region’s most respected experts on fire, local ecology and post-fire regeneration, will present science- and research-based information about wildfires and how to best adapt one’s home environment.

Richard W. Halsey is the Director of the California Chaparral Institute, a nonprofit research and educational organization focusing on the ecology of California’s plant communities, wildfires, and how communities can adapt to fire-prone environments.

Dr. Keeley is a Research Ecologist with the U.S. Geological Survey, stationed at Sequoia National Park, and prior to this served as director of the ecology program for the National Science Foundation. He was also an Occidental College biology professor for 20 years, and served on the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning Environmental Review Board, the State of California Natural Communities Conservation Program (NCCP) Board of Scientific Advisers.

The program will be held at:
Clark Magnet High School Auditorium
4747 New York Avenue
La Crescenta , CA 91214

First come, first seated!