man: a hundred years of climate change, logging, and no forest magement a drought, i knew enou to be rlly sced. woman: definity thout that we were gonna lose our home. man: had my of my iends and ers calle and te me and y, "johnyou needelp ving youanimal" ther would beowhere tgo with that my animals. fferenman: yea copthat. man: [sis] differenman:limate cnge. yohave to el it. y have to s it. y have smell it. you ve to li it. you haveo touch

. woman: belong re. it releasesll mstress and my pa, and makes mstronger ain. [thuer] man:e're conantly baling the weatr. we we so dry, anwe wanterain, annow it n't quitaining. woma i'm hopg thate ca helpeople fi theiroy and reize at, "h, maybe isn'so bad. can get through this." it's a ha life, b yeit is a nderful fe. dot give u keep gog. amera clking] malennounc: "ear focus is me possib in party a grant fr anne ra foundation--a margaret a.

cargill philanthropy and the orange county community foundation. femalennouer: hasas a proud onsor ofearth fos." attle wing] man: we' awoken a lightng stm, and wrarely g that here. [thunder saw these vein ghtning bolts all through e sky, a it was-- i'd actually never seen anything like thabefore e oneshat land actuay stard firewithin aisual distan of our nch. [rumbling]

man: theire almo seemed ke it waalmost le a tenn match or something cause it would kd of unce bacdown thealley and th it uld go bk up ain, andhis is or a ries of ys. 's like i just dn't wanto go to eep because didn't kw what w ing to bhappeninwhen i wo up. parentsouse burd do when i wasn high school. we came home to a burning house. i definite thoughthat we we goa lose o home. john: i me up tohe house anshe was cking thcar, you ow, all ur important pers, evything. e goes k, joh ready? 're readto ." i sd, "dian i'm not leavg." she oked ame like i had, know, t heads. [insec buzzi]

diane: my husbanjohn and live here in healdsburg. john manages our family dairy farm and vineyard, and i run our mily winbusinessanother wimaker wi a vest. jo: we'ran agricuure-basecommunit 're pa of sono county. we're abt an hou hour ana ha north of safrancisc our onomy rely, real is primary an agrultural urism ar--wine tting vineyard hospitaty. my rents started is farm the teifties. mom wou ke that e had torack me down theirst dayf kinderrten becse i was holdintools fomy dad xing fens. ha ha diane: he boces out bed evermorning excitedo go down to e farm. loves i sohat's a ry good ing, but i n'think i uld do it. i thk at some pot, i woulprobablyay, "enoh." john: th has beemy whole

life, livingn th farm. e nch itse is 360 res. weave 40 aeslantedn pinot noir and chardonnay grape nes, andhen the st is e farm bldings a organic paste for our dairanimals. diane: aicultures not ea. anal agricture is en hard. it's a4/7 thg... diane:nd at tis, it cabe

a ttle bitverwhelmg beuse it jt never rns off. hn: yeahyeah. ane: we'ren anothedrght here in e westerunited ates, sohere's presses for literally finding ough feed f the anils. therare soany streors on h right no jo: you cado the best b, behe smartt personut ere, butother nare reall has thfinal sa and thas a litt bit--th's what haened witthese fires, too at we reallyidn't ha-- yocan't corol thatall you can dos work acontrollg what you c control [cattllowing] we saw aot of chges in t calirnia dai busines and th's when decideds a familyo diversy into we grap.

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came unstling beuse it h happed two yrs in a row, th with mo fires, d, viously,ur fire st year 2020as vy closto us. john: there s differt leve of strs and anety as tse fis evold over t last fe yes. the waldridge fire s terally rning onhe operty bind our nch. that timof the yr--in aust, septber, octer--is whene have a of our liveock heren this pperty. althe grass are drd, and were feedi everydyere. we hav600 cowso milk tce a day, anoer 800 amals, th youngeanimals,hat needo be fe i had my of my iends and ers call me and text me and say, "jo, you ne help moving your animals?" there would be nowhere to go with that

ny anils, evenf we cou move th. it ju was impsible. dian as a faer, yourirst inination to prott your animal prote your emplees, proct your buildingor facily, your land. john: with t mandatory acuationwe actually become an isld, so wee suppos t beone. erything' blocded. ouriggest allenge s gettg thin inwe have deliries, you knowevery daof the wk. it was ke fish imming upream. wee fighti a situatn that'sompletel opsite of what eryone el isoing. wh you're the mile of itit's almt like u're on topilot. ane: i w on the tio, a i was wahing easside roa whicis, obvisly, easof uswee on wesside roa

re; it'sn the otr side o e valleyloor--anthere, i was st full cars, a i kepthinkg, "oh, ere must be aaccidentr somethg. why e there many ca?" and i rned arod and sa th huge ple of smo and fles behinus and rlized althose cars were oking at usthey werlooking our house.he stresof themoke everywre and tn not seng thsun and the fire so close d the noe, it's kindf overwhming. john: anso thetress fome i thk it manested itlf ter r me. mae it's pt of mdna or jt part owhat i do as farmer bause you just-- ighs] ane: it'hard at e end, d so manof our neibors ha lost souch, andhen it bemes veryad because metime then, wd lose

the neighbs. they oose to ave. johnthere's lot of fks th lost thr home all their longingsand havi to start ov. i meanthat a gamehanger. man: aut 3:00 4:00 inhe afternoon, ias the lt one re. i ju saw a he, chugng smokerain of own, ange, yeow hadesemon hellooking sscape that was coming right at , and i alized, ell, now know where e fire iand wher it'soming". so at th point, 's a "on way , one waout" roa i ju got out

's the o ivers place. ca back twdays lat to fd the ple still sming and treeon fire,ut o place was gone. pshologicay, it's sing erythingou ownnd erythi that rended youf who you re andust th arous taskf rebuilding. it's a b of a mathon. it all-couming, and is not so much iit burnsown agai it'sind, well wh wilit ? will it before after i e? hopefly, afte came her5 years o, just afr my dauter was rn with my fe and dghter an toe closero the grdparent and be creatg defensle space d trng to prevent

res and epare foan evtual firfor abou5 years until e finallhit. [rumbling] n: back , you gu. just lled mengines ck hard. grt: i w and sti am a wildli biologi. i'm a consvationis i taugh rery and wdlife, si ew enoh aboubiology and the fore ecosyst to know en we mod in herthat a fi had notit here about 60 yrs, and was probly on a matr of timbefore i did,o i t activen the forestr--notreventn as ch as prarednessommunity doze and dozs of us ving in the hls on the spreadut homeeads g togetr and crted a re-proteion pl. a hundd years climate ange, loing, ando forest nagementnd droug and the a two-we heatwave,ou ow, itas boundo hit us soor or later, i knewnoh to be really sred.

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grandmother went to, so, like, then covid kind of took away our community and our ability to gather, and en the fire took our community and just sttered us allver the unty, alover the ate, and some ha left the ste becae of it , all of maslos needs re gone 24 hourswe lost r home, e cleaair, wat, sense mmunity,eighborssense of ple, you kw, theonnectio to theand and e beauty and e hundre of frt treeand erry tre and wilife and akes, anwalking here d st seeinall the ad rds and er and skes and charred trees, it was a bit of a gut-wrenching trip followed by 9 months of continual cleanup and reliving the losses. you kick arnd a find anld charretrinket minding

you of another thing. "oh, yeah. we lo that, t." [caking] [bir chirpinand squaing] man: whamy grand used say was,ur hair presente the thderstorm. and weere alwa told to never er cut o hair, a a t the navos, dinecut thr hair. at's whye got

no rain.hat do y mean, tt dirty, r one? rl: oh, ah. mayble: when was little girlit wouldain for,ike, 5 da straigh d we hado climb r way ou of the m just toet to so sulies and e grassewere atall as a horss belly.hat's ho tall they were. you couldn't see me walking after the sheep when i was, like, 5 years old. we didt have tgo to to to get war. in the wter, we ly haule water,ike, once a ek. in the suer, it really d. we haveo haul water, li, twice a day our she camp.

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strong htory. i'proud toe dinemakes metrong onho i amnd what i std for. peopley age no when th we young, ere was ally no ought. [eine star] heep baag] there would belike, out 15 sheein one aa, and pple to care ofhem. girl: andma sa, "go ho." attle long] leard: my fe here,he raised aut 4 cals. they'

that agwhere th're ving babs now. tt was woh it... [cattle wing] d that mes her aittle bi prouder,tronger,nd the wl go ahead ancareor her anims. she wts to carry on the adition at her m and dad did, herrandpa, r grandma. tt's how rong of ladyhe is. ybelle: use it r food. we don'trofit ofof it. wn weet togetr, we'llutcher shp, and t cows, iake some to the mark, but i n't ofit offf that, ther. i haveo go bacand bu whater they ed--protn, salt, y. that'where it goes. 's our ctom thate ha livesto. takingare of

th, lookg after em, to me, it'sery impoant becae it wasrom genetion t generaon like is. we'rin no close t gate. is my responsibity nowi love bng ound anils, and hes me iso many ys becau at times, i'lltruggle. mindwi, i'll suggle, anit helpse pull rough y to day

i don'know who land its. i haveo idea. 's not me. i'm st livinon it. m grdpa alwa said th to me. "ts is my rs. it'sust here f u it's nody's." h us to say at to us"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 iet up, ke, abou4:00, art the

truck, mbe havanother cup of coffee. then you take off go down to the watering point. n't be ly. got tbe up beforehe sun. ll, this ple is theife poin it's thlife poi of our community's vestock.t's not only for our community. there's people that come out, like abou30, 40 mes all dictions, d i feelor the peoplehat liveay out therby the cyon. for whole rod trip, ey, theyo, like, abt 60 mil just toaul war to tir livtock. th have ks out there.hey have granids outhere th herd sheeand lo afterhe cate and l that, d ey don ha no runng 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 puld by mul or horsesthis is ere wate collec. you n tell wre it si with althese drnage from lite, littlvalleys little gorges. from way out there, they come and sit here. it ud to be full. maybelle: the last time we had water was back, oh, about 5, 4 ars o, just izzle, aew drops, you know. you get all happy getting little drops of rain, ll all mdeceased faly and s, "help !" but still rain.

irds squking] [tnder] woma everythg your cropng schede revolv around theeather. ifou have very wetpring, you n't get the fies till le. you c't get sds planted inhe grod. the lar yoget in, the lat harvt is gon be, andhen you n into sw. [bds chirpg] it's jusso diffent from

wh we wereids. theummer wasn overly t. you dn't have tse torreial rain on a farm, you know, the weather, it predicts everything for you. ma we're cstantly battng the weher. it'either t wet oroo dry, too wa or too cold. were sory and w wa rain,nd now iwon't qu raining, so thiis what 'rdealing th, rkin ound the windowshat we have to ow the fd for ou cows my name randy rcker, an i'm third-geration fmer from logville, wconsin. we

have abo 300 peoe in m ttle comnity her [ctle lowi] my parts are 8and 82 yrs ol they fa every d. ey startheir moing at 30. my moloves toix fee and she dres in e tracto and she alwaysikes worng with e cowsecause, shsaid, "cs don't lk back you." it truly aamily fa, and metimes really wder. there s to be better w of li outhere sepla that you n't havehese proems that y strugglwith allhe ti.

[cattle wing] statz: my name is brenda statz. well, my farming was my main ing. it ill is aot of my life, bui do worfull-t off my farm, ao, so i probably lked her 30-ps years milked ithis barn ani milkedor my dabefore thati was, le, 12 wh i stted milkg cows ahis rn, so ie mied cs a longime, so- [ctle lowi] ansome of them, ye, you t spial cowsyou get ts, and somef themyou're jt like o. i d't wannothing too with h," and y wait foher to go onhe truckyou know to selthem offbut fothe st part, mean, fming is- go girl.eep

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b far enoh that th can'tall us bk to do chores tight." iwas just more mories oft than y thk. you kw, y alws thought of that time, it was just a lot of work, but then when you look back now, you ow, it was probably some of the better times becau we spent much ti tether th and st worng, milkg cows anraising ur famil th's what rm life . [cattle lowing] roker: i c remembemy mom always h a littlbook f you ow, evy year tt i was inchool, a it alwa said on tre, you ow, "whawould yolike tbe?" andt always id, li, "firem liceman, docr," you ow and you wereupposed check what youanted, a then the was a ank lineand then s uld alys wte in, "fmer," ani just ft that my wle life s kind o like, id out bore me,