man: hundred yrs of clate change, loing, ando forest nagementnd droht, i kn engh to beeally ared. woman: definity thought that we were gonna lose our home ma i had many of mfriends anpeers ca me and xt me ansay, "jo, you ne help ving yr anims?" the would nowhereo go with thatany animals. ffert man: yh. cy that. man:sighs] differt man: climatehange. u have tfeel it.ou have toee it.ou havto smell it. you ve to li it. you haveo touch . won: i belg here.

releas ally stressnd my in, anit makese strong again. [tnder] ma we're cstantly ttling the weher. we re so dr anwe wanterain, annow it won't qu raining won: i'm hing th we can he people nd the joy and alizthat, ey, maybit ist so badi can get through this it's a rd lif but t it is wonderfulife. don't givep. keep ing. amera clking] ma annouer: "eth focus is me possib in party a grant fr anne ra foundation--a margaret a. cargill philanthropy and the

orange county community foundation. fema annncer: sa is a prousponsor "earth cus." [cattllowing man: we' awoken a lightng stm, and wrarely g that here. [thund] saw tse vein ghtning bolts all through e sky, a it was-- i'd actually never en anythinlike tt before the oneshat laed actually stted firewithin aisual distan of our nch. [rumbling]

man: theire almo seemed ke it waalmost le a tenn match or something because it wouldind of bounce bk down t valley and th it uld go bk up agai and thiis over series of ysit's liki justidn't wa to go tsleep becausi didn'tnow whatas going toe happeng when i ke up. my parts houseurned wn en i wasn highchool. w came home to a burning house. i definily thoug that weere goa lose o home. john: i me up tohe house anshe was cking thcar, yoknow, alyour importa pers, evything. e goes "ok, jn. readywe're rey to go." i sd, "dian i'm not leing." shlooked ame like i ha you know,wo heads [insts buzng]

diane:y husbd john a i live here in healdsburg. john manages our family dairy farm and vineyard, and i run our family we busine. anothe wimaker wi a ves hn: we'ran agrilture-bad communy. we're rt of soma count we're out an hr, hour d a half north of n francio. oueconomy ally, rely is primily an aicultura urism ar--wine tting vineyas, hospilitymy parents stard this fm in thlate fifti. my momould jo that shhad to tck me down theirst dayf ndergart because was lding toolfor my d fixing fces. ha ! diane: hbounces t of bed evermorning soxcited tgo down to thfarm. heoves it, so thas a veryood thin but i n't think could do iti think sompoint, i would probly say, nough." hn: thisas been whole

lifeliving othis farm. the nch itse is 360 res. weave 40 aes plant in pinot noir and chardonnay grape vines, a then threst iin e farm bldings a organic paure for our day animal diane:gricultu is not sy. imal agrulture ieven rder. it a 24/7 ing... dian and at mes, it n be

little b overwheing beuse itust neveturns of john: ye. yeah. ane: we're ianother drout here ithe westn unitedstates, there's preures for literally finding ough feedor thenimals. ere are so manstressoron him rht now. hn: you n do the besjob, be the smaest pers out there, b mother ture reay has e final y, and tt's a little bit--at's wha ppened wh these res, too thate real didn't ve-- yocan't corol thatall you can do iwork at ntrollin whatouan contr. [ctle long] we saw aot of chges in t calirnia dai busines and th's when decideds a familyo diversy into we gres.

u know, e grapeselped pulls roh, whichs one theeasons w you looat diversifying your business eration.ere we a in augu of 2020n the mile of worldwidpandemicand we have ts fire. die: the fst fire at we had, lar fire, w in 2017 itas quitehocking.t was a majofire. believe er 8,000 ructuresere burn 5,000 hos here isonoma coun, so eveone was imcted by . we've d more fires nce thenin 2018, ere was firethe campire in parase, calirn. at was fther awafrom us, buthe smokand everhing it was, u know, l throug sonomaounty, a the wayown tohe bay aa. then kind of came unstling beusit had

happed two yrs in a row, th with mo fires, d, viously,ur fire st year 2020as vy close to us. john: there was different levels of stress and anxiety as these res evold overhe last w yes. the waldridge firwas terally rning onhe operty bind our nch. that timof the yr--in gust, seember, oober--is wh we havell of ou liveock heren this pperty. l the grses are ied, and are feeng everydy here. we he 600 co to milkwice a day, ather 800nimals, e younger imals, tt need tbe fed. i h many ofy friend anpeers call me and text me and say, "hn, you ed help moving your animals?" there would be nowhere to go with that many

amals, en if we cld move em. it st was iossible. dian as a faer, yourirst inination to prott your anims, prote your employs, prote your ildings facilit your land. john: with t mandatory evacuati, we actually beco ansland, swe're suosed to be gone.verythg's blocded. ouriggest challengwas geing thin . we he deveries, you kn, every y of theeek. it was ke fish imming stream. 're fighng a situatn that'sompletel posite of whatveryone se doing. en you'rin the ddle of , it's aost like yore on aupilot. ane: i w on the tio, and i watching et side rd, whicis, obvisly, easof us--we're onest sideoad here; it on the her sidef

the vaey floorand ther it s just fl of car and i kept thinking, ", there st an accint or sothing. whare therso many rs?" ani turnedround ansaw this hugplume ofmoke and fles behinus and rlized all the cars we lookinat usthey we lookinat our house.he stresof the ske evywherend thenot seng the sun and the fire so closand the ise, it' kindf overelming. john: d so t stress r me i ink it mifested self later for memaybe it part ofy dna orust partf what do as a rmer becse you st-- [sighs diane:s hardt the en anso many our neighrs have lost so muc and then it becomes ry sad becau sometis, then,e'd lose

thosneighbor they chse to leave. jo: there'a lot ofolks at lost eir home all their longingsand havi to start ov. i meanthat's a ga changer man:bout 3:0or 4:00 the afteoon, was theast one here. i st saw auge, chging smo train obrown, ange, yeow hades demon hellooking sscape at was coming right at , and i realiz, "well,ow i kno whe the fi is and ere it'somin... so athat poi, it's aone way , one waout" roa i ju got out

's the o ivers place. came bactwo daysater toind the ace stiloking and trs on fe, but our place was ne. ychologilly, it's sing erything you ownnd everytng that minded y of who u were a just the arous taskf rebuilding. it's ait of a rathon. 's all-coumin and it'not so muchf it bur down agn. it's kin welwhen will it be? ll it before after die? hopully, afr. i came he 5 yearago, jus ter my dghter waborn with my fe and dghter an be clos to the andparen and en creing defeible spacand trying to event

fires anprepare r an evtual firfor abou5 years untione finay hit. [rumbling] n: back , you gu. just pulled mengineback har out: ias and sll am wildfe biolost. i'm consvationis i taugh forery and wdlife, si knew eugh about biologand the fore ecosyst to know when we ved in he that a fi had notit here about 60 years, anit was pbably on a mter ofime befo it did,o i got acti in the forest pr--n preveion as ch as prarednessommunity doze and dozs of us ving in the hls on the spreadut hosteadsot togetr and crted fire-protection an. a hured yearof climate change, gging, a no fore nagementnd droug and the a two-ek heatwave, y know, was bou to hit us sner or laterso i kn enough to breally sred.

th... is sry. hundd-ar-old woshed, 0-year-o tanoaks orchard use, fir it was magil place the ente fami. all e grandks woul comep here for all t lidays or the rir and througthe woodand andmothes house d always full ofruit. ts homestd went back hundred years. there re two-m saws an coyoteraps andear trapand old-- erythingas hand-fged here and bui by h grandther and great-grdfathe so there was a lot ofistoric buildings, the old 140-year-old, one-room schoolhouse that my wife's mother and sister and

grandmother wento, so, like, then covid kind of took away our community and our ability to gather, anthen the fire took our community and just sttered us a over thcounty, l over thstate, a some ve left the ste beuse of iso, all of masw's needwere gonin 24 hou. we losour homethe cln air, wer, sensof mmunit neighbo, sense ace, younow, theonnectio to theand and e beauty and e hundds of uit trees and erry tre and wilife and snakes, d walkinup here and st seeinall the ad birds andeer andnakes an charred trees, it was a bit of a gut-wrenching trip followed by 9 months of continual cleanup and reliving the losses. you kick ound a find anld

charred inket rending you of another thing. "oh, yeah. we st that,oo." [caking] [bir chirpinand squaing] woman:hat my gndpa used to say was,ur hair presente the thderstorm. and we we alwaysold to neveever cut our hai and a t of theavajos, nes cut eir hairthat's w we got no rain. what doou mean, that

dirty,ed one? girl: ohyeah. maelle: wh i was little gi, it wou rain fo like, 5 da straigh d we h to climour way t of theud just get to me pplies anthe grass were atall a a hoe's bell that's w tall they were. you couldn't see me walking after the sheep when i was, like, 5 years old. we dn't haveo go to wn to get war. in theinter, wonly haud wate like, onca week. the suerit's reay bad. w ha to haulaterlike, twe

a dato our sep camp. ma everythg revolv arnd water st survil. that'it. people cl us the forgotn people gi: ye maybelleno. n: [instinct thisommunitys callededar ridg we're uer the najo nation. e navajoation hugeit's bigr than se ates. beg navajos very ve importa to us. have a

strong htory. i'proud toe di, makes strong who i and what i and for. peop my age w, when ey we young, ere was ally no drought. ngine stts] [sheep bing] there would , likeabout 0 shp in onerea, andeople ok care them. gi: grandmsays, "ghome." [cattle wing] onard: mwife her she raisedbout 4 cves. there

that agwhere th're havingabies no that wa rth it.. [cattle wing] and thatakes her little t proude stronge and theill to go ahead d ca for her anims. she wts to carry on thtraditiothat herom and dad did, h grandpaher grandma. tt's how rong of lady shes. maybellewe use ifor fo. we don profit f of it.hen we get tether, wll butch eep, andhe cows, take some tthe maet, but don't ofit offf that, ther. i ha to goack and y whever theneed--prein, salthay. thas where goes. it our cusm that w ve livesck. taki care of

em, loing afr them, me, it very imrtant beuse it w from geration t genetion likthis. wee in no close t gate. is my responbility n. i loveeing around amals, anit hes me in many wa because times, i' struggl mindse, i'lltruggle, and itelps me ll througday to d.

i n't knowhose lanit is. i ha no ideait's notine. i'm just ling on i my andpa alys said at to me his is mours. it just hereor u it's nody's." h ed to sathat to . "it's nobody's." it's the cows, the sheep, all these little creatures running around. i think it's their land. that's what i think. [ratchet clicking] leond: somimes i get up, like, out 4:00start th truck, mbe he anotr cup

of coffee. then you take off go down to the watering point. n't be ly. got tbe up befo the sunwell, th place the lifpoint. is thlife poi of our commity's vestoc it's no only for our community. there's people that come out, like abou30, 40 mes all rectionsand i fe for the peoplehat liveay out there by theanyon. f a whole rod trip, ey, th do, lik out 60 mes just haul ter to tir lestock. ey haveids out ther they ha granids outhere th herd sheeand lo afterhe cate d all at, and theyon't ve no ruing water, no electricity. they have to haul water. it's hard to see them struggle.

in my days, we used to go to earth dams to load up water in wagons pulled by mes or hors. this iwhere war collts. you n tell wre it ts with l these ainage from littl little lleys or little gorges. from way out there, they come and sit here. itsed to be full. maybelle: the last time we had water was back, oh, about 5, 4 yearago, jusdrizzle, few drops, you know. you get all happy getting little drops of ra, call a my deceased faly and s, "help !" but stilno rain.

[birdsquawking] hunder] won: everying in your crping schule revoes ound t weather ifou have very wetpring, yodon't gein the flds till le. you c't get sds plted in t groun the lar you geit in, the ler haest is gna be, a then you ruinto snow. [birds crping] it's jt so difrent fro

wh we wereids. theummer wa't overlhot. youidn't have tse torreial rain on a farm, you know, the weather, it predicts everything for you. n: we'reonstantly baling the ather. is eitheroo wet oroo dry, too rm or to coldwe were dry ande nted rain,nd now iwon't qu raining, so thiis what we're aling withworkg around tse windo that we have tgrow theeed for r co. my namis randyoecker, d i'a third-nerationarmer fr loganvie, wiscoin. we have abo 300 peoe in m

little cmunity he. attle long] my pents are1 and 82ears ol they fa every d. they stt their rning at:30. my mom loves mix fd, and s es in thtractor,nd she alwa likes wking witthe cows because, she id, "cow don't lk back you." 's tru a familfarm, an sometimei reallyonder. therhas to ba betteray of li outhere somlacehat yodon't ha these pblems that youtruggle th allhe me.

[cattle wing] statz: my name is brenda statz. well, my farming was my main thing.t still a lot omy lifebut i doork fullime off my farlso, so i pbably mied here 30-pluyears milked ithis barn ani milkedor my dabefore that. i s, like,2 when i stted milkg cows ahis barn, so i've lkedows a lo time, so-- [ctle long] ansome of them, ye, you t spial cowsyou get ts, and so of th, you'reust like o. i d't want thing to d th her,"nd you wt for her to go onhe truckyou know to sl them o, but r the most par i mean,arming i- od girl. keep wahing. it

a go life. iwas a go life. see you, carmen.a ha ha! onnd i, weet actual, in reeburg at boing alley. was not peon who wt out mu, and i went outith my ster wah her bo, and th's when we metanhe had gone to scol with siste who e's, le, 3 yea older tn meand we jt startedating anwe botcame fm fa backound and we th co from bifamiliesso ev our wedng was b. we did everhing togher. fm the timeou got uin the mning till t time yowent to d, yoworked tether. tt's just the y farminis. he had hichores. did my cres. neveracationemuch. if weid, it w a weeke. once a year, we go sowhere,ut it reallyasn't r awayecause aid, "cat go tooar." leonould s, "younow, can go too f but farnough th

ey can cl us bk to do chor tonight it was st more memories it thanou thk. you kw, y always thought of that time, it was just a lot of work, but then when you look back now, you know was probably some of the better times because w spent so mh time togethethen and storking, lking co d raisinyour famy. th's whafarm lifis. [cattle lowing] ecker: ian rememr my mom alwaysad a lite book f yoknow, ery yearhat i wa schoo and it ways sai onhere, yoknow, "wt would yolikeo be?" a it alwa said, like, "firan policeman, dtor," yoknow and you re supsed to cck what y wanted,nd then ere was a ank lineand then s would alys wri in, "fmer," ani just ft that myhole lifwas kindf, likelaid outefore meso