2 days ago14 minYour Coronavirus Questions AnsweredWhy is Home Sweet Habitat writing about the Coronavirus? The Short Answer: I want to help in some small way. The Long Answer: This global crisis has left peo...
Aug 19, 20192 minA New ChapterAs you may have noticed, I haven't updated Home Sweet Habitat in a long while. A lot of life happened between then and now, and you deserve an explanation. A...
Mar 13, 20193 minIf you can't handle the heat...If you ever come to my house and smell rotting flesh, please don’t call the cops... It’s just my corpse flower! Last year I was gifted with a corm (similar t...
Feb 19, 20194 minHabitat: Expect the Typical; Survive the ExtremeRedding and the rest of the North State got absolutely walloped by snow this week. Depending on the news source, anywhere from eight to thirteen inches of sn...
Jan 25, 20193 minDeath Valley National Park: Timing is EverythingWhen I was seven, I traveled to South Korea to visit family and friends. When I arrived after a 12-hour plane ride, I discovered that somehow 28 hours had pa...
Jan 7, 20194 minDeath Valley National Park: Hostile, Brutal, BeautifulDeath Valley National Park is a remarkable place. The park is just east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range, placing it within a severe rain shadow. Rain sha...
Dec 23, 20185 minFireproof: How to prevent catastrophic wildfires from ruining more livesWe have now addressed how fires historically burned in California, the human forces that changed California’s fire regime, the behavior of catastrophic wildf...
Nov 11, 20184 minHow to Protect Yourself and Your Property from Post-Fire CatastropheIn my previous post, I explained that flash floods and landslides pose the greatest threat to human life and property in the rainy seasons after an unnatural...
Nov 11, 20182 minFires, Floods, and LandslidesIn my previous post, I discussed just how damaging an unnatural crown fire is not only to the ecology of an area, but also to the soils. It is this soil dama...
Nov 10, 20183 minCrown Fires: The New Normal?As I discussed in my previous post, crown fires are fires that burn vertically into the crowns of trees, enabling these fires to spread from treetop to treet...
Nov 4, 20183 minHow California’s Fire Ecology was HijackedIn my previous post I described just how vital fire is to California’s ecosystems. Fire is a necessary facet in maintaining the right conditions for Californ...
Oct 27, 20184 minHistorical Wildfire in CaliforniaOn July 23rd, 2018, an RV with a flat tire sent a spark into the roadside brush in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area. That spark began what is now known a...
Sep 8, 20183 minThe Resurrection Garden: Phase 1We have some exciting news here at Home Sweet Habitat. We have our first client! The Good News Rescue Mission, Redding’s local homeless shelter, is hoping to...
Sep 5, 20182 minWelcome to Home Sweet Habitat! Welcome, Habitat Engineers, to the Home Sweet Habitat Blog! Since you’re here, I commend you for taking a positive step in the movement to protect, sustain, ...