man: a hundred years of climate change, logging, and no forest nagementnd drought, i kn engh to beeally ared. woman: definity thought that we were gonna lose our home man: i h many ofy friend d peers ll me antext me ansay, "jo, you ne help ving yr anims?" the would beowhere tgo with thatany animals. ffert man: yh. cy that. man: [sis] differt man:limate change. yohave to el it. y have toee it.ou havto smell it. you ve to li it. you haveo touch . woma i belonhere. it

releas all my stressnd my pain, 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 thate can he people nd the joy and alize at, "hey, maybit ist so badi can get through this."t's a rd life,ut t it is wonderfulife. don't givep. keep ing. amera clking] ma annouer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by a grant from anne ray foundation--a margaret a.

cargill philanthropy and the orange county community foundation. fema annncer: ha is a prd sponsoof "eartfocus." [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]

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[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 vest. hn: we'ran agricuure-basecommunit we're pa of soma count we're out an hr, hour d a half north of n francio. oueconomy ally, rely is primary an aicultura tourism ea--wineasting vineyas, hospilitymy parents stard this fm in thla fiftiesmy mom wld jo that shhad to tck me down t first d of ndergart because i was ldg tools r my d fixing fces. ha ! diane: hbounces t of bed every rning soxcited tgo do to the rm. he les it, so thas a veryood thin but i n'think i uld do it. think at sompoint, i would probly say, nough." hn: thisas been whole

li, livi on this farm. thranch itlf is 36acres. weave 40 aes planted i pinot noir and chardonnay grape nes, andhen the st is e farm bldings a organic paure for our day animal diane:gricultu is not sy. imal agrulture ieven haer. it's 24/7 thing... dian and at mes, it n be

little b overwheing beuse itust neveturns of john: ye. yeah. ane: wre ianother drghthere ithe westn unitedstates, there's preures for literally finding ough feedor thenimals. ere ar so manstressoron him rht now. jo: you cado the besjob, the smaest pers out there, b mother ture reay has e final y, and tt's a little bit--at's wha haened witthese res, too thate reallyidn't ha-- yocan't corol thatall you can do iwork at ntrollin wh you can ctrol. [cate lowing 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 beusit had happed two yrs in a row, th with mo fires, d, viously,ur fire st year 2020as vy close to us. johnthere wadiffert levels of sess and xiety ashese res evold overhe last w yes. the waldridge firwas terally rning onhe operty bind our nch. at time the yea-in gust, seember, oober--is wh we havell of ou liveock heren this pperty. althe grass are drd, and are feeng everydyere. we have 600 co to milkwice 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 animalseven if we cld move em. it just wasmpossibl dian as a faer, yourirst inination to prott your anims, prote your employs, prote your ildings facilit your nd. john: with t mandatory evacuati, we actually beco ansland, swe're suosedo be gone.verythins blocded. our biggest challee was geing thin . we he deveries, u kn, every y of theeek. it was ke fish imming upream. wee fighti a situatn that'sompletel positef 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; 's on

thother si of the vaey floorand ther it s just fl of car and i kept thinking,oh, thermust an accint or sothing. whare therso many rs?" ani turned aund and w this hugplume ofmoke and ames behd us andealized all the cars we lookinat usthey we lookinat our house.he stresof the ske evywhere and then t seei the sun and the fire so closand the ise, it' ki of ovwhelming johnand so the stresfor me i thinit manifted itse later for me. ybe it'sart ofy dna orust partf what do as a rmer becse you st-- [sighs diane:s hardt the en and many ofur neighbo have lost so muc and theit becomes ry sad becse sometis, then,e'd lose

thosneighbor they chse to ave. jo: there'a lot ofolks at lost eir home all theibelongin, and hang 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 hell-lookingkyscape at was coming right at , and realized"well, n i know whe the fi is and ere it'somin... so athat poi, it's aone way , one waout" roa i ju got out

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kn enoh to be really 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 f all the lidays or the rir and through e woods d grdmother'house analways full ofruit. ts homestd went back hundred years. there we two-manaws and coyoteraps andear trapand old-- erythingas hand-ford here and bui by h grandther and great-grdfathe so there was a lot of htoric 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 the ate, and 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 d st seeinall the ad birds and er and snakes 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

arred trket remiing you of another thing. "oh, yeah. we st that,oo." [caking] [bir chirpinand squaing] woman: wt my grapa useto say was,ur hair presente the thderstorm. and weere alwa told to ner ever c our hai and a t of theavajos, nes cut their ha. that'shy we go

no rai what doou mean,hat dirty, r one? rl: oh, ah. ybelle: en i w a littl gi, it wou rain fo like, 5 da straigh d we hado climb r way ou of theud just get to me ppli anthe grass weres tall 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 ter. in theinter, wonly haud wate like, once week. in the suerit's reay bad. w ha to haulaterlike, twe

a dato our sep camp. ma everythg revolv arou water. just surval. thas it. ople calus the forgottepeople. girl: ye ybelle: . n: [instinct thisommunitys callededar ridg we're uer the najo nation. e navajoation hugeit's bigr than se stat. being vajo is ry ve importa to us. have a

strong htory. i'proud toe di, makes strong who i amnd what i and for. peop my age w, when ey wereoung, the was rely no drought. [eine star] [sheep bing] therwould , likeabout 0 shp in onerea, andeople to care ofhem. gi: grandmsays, "ghome." [cattle wing] onard: mwife her she raised aut 4 cves. there

that agwhere th're having bies now.hat was rth it.. [cattle wing] and thatakes her little t prour, stronr, and t will to gahead anca for her anims. she wts to carry on thtraditiothat herom and dadid, herrandpaher grandma. tt's how rong of dy she i maybellewe use ifor fo. we don profit f of it.hen get togher, we' butcher eep, andhe cows, take some tthe maet, but don't ofit offf that, ther. i ha to go bk and y whever theneed--prein, salthay. thas where goesit's ourustom th we ve livesck. taki care of

em, looking aftethem, to me, it very imrtant beuse it w from geration t genetion likthis. wee in no close t gate. is my responbility nowi love bng around amals, anit hes me in many wa because times, i'lltruggle. mindse, i'lltruggle, and itelps me ll througday to d.

i dot know wse land is. i ha no ideait's notine. i'm just livg on it.y andpa alys said at to me his is mours. it just here f 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: setimes iet up, like, abt 4:00, art the

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 mmity's listoc 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, they do, lik abt 60 mil just toaul ter to tir lestock. ey haveids out ther they ha granids outhere th herd sheeand lo afterhe cate d all th, 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 horsesthis is ere wate 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 ars o, just izzle, aew drops, you know. you get all happy getting little drops of in, callll my deceased faly and s, "help !" but still 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 get it in, the ler haest is gna be, a then you ruinto snow. irds chiing] it's jusso diffent from

wh we wereids. theummer wa't overlhot. youidn' 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 too dry, too rm or to coldwe were dry ande nted rain,nd now iwon't qu raining, so thiis what we're aling with, rkg around tse windo that we have tgrow theeed for r co. my namis randyoecker, d i'a third-nerationarmer fr loganvie, wiscoin. have aut 300 pple in m

little cmunity he. attle long] my parts are 8and 82 yrs ol they fa every d. ey stt their rning at:30. my moloves mix fd, and s es in thtractor,nd she alwa likes wking witthe cows because, she id, "cow don't lk back you." it's tru a familfarm, an sometis i real wonder. there s to be better w of li outhere somlacehat yodon't ha these pblems that y struge with a the me.

attle long] 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-ps years i milkedn this barn ani milkedor my dabefore that. was, lik 12 when stted milkg cows ahis barn, so've milked cs a lo time, s- [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 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. i e you,armen. hha ha! onnd i, weet actual, in reeburg at boing alley. was not peon who wt out mu, and i went outith my ster watch r bowl, d that'shen we met, and head gone to scol with siste who e's, le, 3 yea older tn meand we jt startedating anwe botcame fm farm backound and we th co from bifamiliesso ev our wedng was b. we did everhing tether.rom the ti you gotp in theorning till t time yowent to d, yoworked tether. tt's just the y farminis. he had hichores. did my cres. never vationed ch. if weid, it w a weeke. once a year, we go sowhere,ut it reallyasn't r awayecause aid, "cat go tooar." onould s, "you kno can't

too farut far eugh that ey can'tl us bk to do choresonight."t was ju moreemories it thanou thk. you kw, y aays 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 we spent so mh time togethethen and st wking, miing co d raisinyour famy. at's whafarm lifis. [cattle lowing] ecker: ian rememr my mom alwaysad a lite book f yoknow, ery yearhat i wa school,nd it alys said on tre, you ow, "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 writen, "fmer," ani just ft that myhole lifwas kindf, likelaid outefore meso