Timing the blazes between soggy storms, California State Parks workers and volunteers stage prescribed burns of piles of collected brush, branches and limbs to reduce the danger of uncontrolled fire and to make the forest more healthy.
Stephanie Penn
Stephanie Penn is a freelance journalist, photographer and writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She studied geology and studio art at Cornell College and loves combining her background in visual art and science to communicate stories about California’s nature, plants, and wildlife. She holds a master of journalism degree from UC Berkeley, with a focus on multimedia reporting.