About Us

A resilient, fire-wise landscape design uses sustainable practices, hardscape, and plant selection and maintenance to reduce the risk of fire in the defensible space zone, while creating a beautiful garden.

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The goal of the Resilient Landscapes Coalition is to encourage fire-wise landscape design and management in the defensible space zone, while at the same time enhancing biodiversity and wildlife habitat, and conserving resources. ​

​The Coalition formed for several reasons:

• To ensure that wildlife habitat and biodiversity is protected and enhanced while meeting County and State code requirements and fire-wise recommendations within the defensible space zone
• To promote sustainable practices to save energy and water
• To provide specific design and plant selection recommendations at different distances from the house (0-5’, 5-30’ and 30-100’), encouraging the use of native plants, and identifying native plant communities as the framework for plant selection.
• To emphasize the critical importance of maintenance in sustaining the fire-wise landscape.
• To clarify sometimes conflicting fire agency guidelines
• To highlight the importance of working as a community to be fire wise, sustainable, and to protect and enhance wildlife habitat and wildlife corridors
• To engage the fire-protection community along with the habitat restoration and environmental communities to create an integrated and wholistic message

PARTNER

SONOMA ECOLOGY CENTER

Sonoma Ecology Center works to address challenges related to water supply and quality, open space, rural character, biodiversity, energy, climate change, and a better quality of life for all residents.

Since 1990, we’ve worked to increase appreciation and stewardship of Sonoma Valley’s natural heritage and create measurable benefits in areas of land, water, climate change and biodiversity.
Vision: We envision a future where people, land, water, and wildlife thrive.
Mission: Our mission is to work with our community to identify and lead actions that achieve and sustain ecological health in Sonoma Valley.

Sonoma Ecology Center

partner

UC MASTER GARDENER PROGRAM OF SONOMA COUNTY

The UC Master Gardener Program of Sonoma County (UCMGSC) has been extending educational outreach and providing technical assistance to home gardeners since 1981. UCMGSC answers gardening questions and takes a proactive role in extending sustainable landscaping education outreach to our community.  Master Gardeners are trained and certified University of California volunteers whose mission is to provide unbiased, high quality, science-based information to non-commercial home gardeners. Master Gardeners are given an extensive training program in plant science covering such topics as sustainable landscaping, soil and plant nutrition, irrigation, weed-insect-disease control, vegetables, fruit trees and berries, landscape trees-shrubs-lawns-flowers, home composting, and pesticide use alternatives, and more!

UC Master gardeners

PARTNER

HABITAT CORRIDOR PROJECT

Mission: To create and promote California native plant restoration gardens in the urban environment.
Vision

• Create - Leading by example we design and install California native plant gardens replacing lawns and traditional water intensive landscapes
• Restore - wildlife habitat and support biodiversity in the urban landscape
• Educate - Inspire the public with knowledge: talks, gardening tours and signage, downloadable plans for residential and public landscapes, public outreach, partnerships with government agencies and similar not-for-profit organizations.

habitat corridor project

The following organizations collaborate and coordinate with the Resilient Landscapes team, informing content:

Thank you Rebuild Northbay for the Rise-Up Community Impact Grant that funded our pilot workshops!

support us and get in touch

General Email: resilientlandscapescoalition@gmail.com

Ellie Insley: newts@vom.com
Mimi Enright: mimi.enright@sonoma-county.org
April Owens: april@habitatcorridorproject.org

WE appreciate your support.  Currently donations fund our expanded website, outreach and our consultation program.

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