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to the Two Lynchpin Road blog!
A place where we come together to discuss disaster preparedness, response, and recovery for your community! Every disaster — whether it’s a hurricane, flood, or human-caused — is an opportunity for us to learn and build a community that is more likely to thrive during a crisis. Get ready to join forces in building a better more disaster-ready future!
Rising to the Challenge: How Your Emergency Management Team Can Ensure Holiday Safety
As the holiday season approaches, it's a time of joy and celebration. But it also brings unique challenges for emergency management teams in communities and counties across the country. From increased traffic on the roads to potential weather-related incidents, it's a...
Minimizing Wildfire Risks with Technology
Climate change and extreme weather conditions have led to an increase in the frequency and intensity of wildfires around the world. These devastating disasters cause significant harm to both the environment and human lives. Emergency managers around the globe are...
Getting Prepared and Staying Prepared
When it comes to disaster preparedness, the key is not just being prepared, but staying prepared. For government officials that means getting an initial plan in place and ensuring any identified risks are addressed. However, once those elements are completed a...
Building Back Better? The Purpose of the Stafford Act
As emergency managers and city planners, we often find ourselves racing against a ticking clock – in the wake of a disaster it is our job to restore order as quickly as possible. In all of this rush, however, it can be easy to forget one important detail about the...
Rising Fire Weather Days: An Insight into Climate Change
Rising Fire Weather Days: An Insight into Climate ChangeWildfire seasons have become more intense, lasting longer, and expanding across several states over time. The change in climate has significantly contributed to the increased number of fire weather days,...
Can a Congressional Caucus Change the Game on Disaster Resilience?
Can a Congressional Caucus Change the Game on Disaster Resilience?In a major step forward for disaster recovery and resilience in the United States, Representatives Bennie G. Thompson, Earl Blumenauer, Dina Titus, and Sheila Jackson Lee have helped to form the...
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Important Acknowledgment
Two Lynchpin Road recognizes that we are on the ancestral lands of the Coast Miwok, Pomo, and Wappo, who are the original caretakers of the Sonoma County, California area.
We respectfully acknowledge the Indigenous peoples who have been stewarding and maintaining relationship on this land as knowledge keepers for millennia.
As an organization, we are dedicated to understanding and educating others about historical and ongoing connections between land conservation, disaster impacts, and social inequities. This includes the histories of genocide, forced removal and displacement, and broken promises with Indigenous peoples as a part of American history.
This acknowledgment serves as a gesture of respect to the land we are located on.
