Deer Creek Resources

04/25/2025

Deer Creek Resources is looking for seasonal employees to maintain our trailers at fire camp and provide GIS services for agencies.

If you have questions, please email [email protected] (rather than post here or message through social media).

Thanks!

Incident Mapping Specialist/Trailer Attendant Deer Creek Resources (DCR) mapping specialists provide onsite cartography, printing, data management, networking, general trailer maintenance and technical support during major wildland fires and other emergency incidents across the American West. We are...

11/18/2024

There is currently a flash flood watch for the Chico area and all other communities downstream of the Park Fire burn scar. Similar warnings will occur with e...

11/18/2024

Here is a video from our Director, Zeke Lunder, about the geography of postfire flood hazards after the Park Fire.

There is currently a flash flood watch for the Chico area and all other communities downstream of the Park Fire burn scar. Similar warnings will occur with e...

10/30/2024

Deer Creek Resources is one of the nation’s best-established wildfire-related mapping contractors. We provide people and equipment to support onsite mapping for incident management teams on large wildfires, and also produce pre-fire plans that help communities reduce their wildfire exposures. We also plan and implement prescribed burning projects and this position includes torch time.

We are hiring a Cartographer/GIS Data Manager!
Must have at least 3 years of professional GIS and map design experience and be willing to work onsite at the Deer Creek Resources office in Chico, California. 32-40hrs/wk with benefits.

The person in this position will be able to complete training assignments toward NWCG GISS certification - willingness to travel to occasional fire assignments is a plus! Also, this position may have opportunities to take on Engine Boss or FOBS training assignments or ENGB/FOBS-actual assignments to build or maintain current wildfire quals.

Send an inquiry email to info at deercreekresources dot com for more information.

10/16/2024

We are supporting the 2024 Butte TREX Prescribed Fire Training Exchange this year, providing an Incident Commander for the event and a Type VI wildland fire engine. On Sunday we trained people on the operation of wildland pumps, and practiced mobile attack, hoselays, and spot fire suppression.

We are hoping to be burning grasslands next weekend near the Mechoopda Casino, but may have to change our plans if the weather doesn't cooperate!

Working in Cohasset for this training, the need for rural communities to build with wildland fire skills is right in our faces!

10/12/2024

The Butte Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) starts today! Here is our press release:
I am working as the Incident Commander and available to talk about the goals of this event. If you'd like to set up an interview or come photograph the event, please contact our Public Information Officer, Blake Ellis - her info is on the press release!

09/26/2024

We captured 28,000 aerial images of burn within Cohasset and Lower Chico Creek Canyon areas today.
We are using them to map fire effects on the vegetation and to evaluate erosion hazard potential, but they are also useful for documenting fire damage for insurance claims.
We also captured infrared imagery to map where vegetation is still living (bright red tones on the samples, below).
Contact us via deekcreekgis.com if you are interested in buying imagery!

08/23/2024

With the burn scar looming over the foothills of the Sacramento Valley, this fall and winter will bring many flood warnings. This 2023 Lookout video discusses flood control in the Sacramento Valley. It focuses on the Chico area around minute 20.

Ahead of another big storm, The Lookout is offering up geography lessons. Our first lecture is on flood control systems on the Sacramento, American, and Feat...

08/23/2024

Here is a new 'Gigapan' image of the 's mixed effects in Mill Creek Canyon, south of Tamarack Spring, in Eastern Tehama County, California.
https://www.gigapan.org/gigapans/235710

We have many other gigapan images on the-lookout.org, and will be adding more.

08/23/2024

Here is a great new video about a major prescribed fire project we helped the Terra Fuego Resource Foundation burn this spring on commercial timberlands managed by near McCloud, California.

As wildfires continue to devastate California, Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) is taking action by implementing large-scale prescribed burns on our managed proper...

08/23/2024

Here's a new video about a large burning project that we got to help out with planning and implementing just outside of McCloud, California, this spring.

As wildfires continue to devastate California, Pacific Forest Trust (PFT) is taking action by implementing large-scale prescribed burns on our managed proper...

08/21/2024

I got to go for a walk in the Park Fire burn on the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve today with staff from the NRCS and BCCER. Here are a couple postfire land management tips from NRCS Forester Mary Mayeda.

USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service Area Forester Mary Mayeda gives some landowner tips on how to take care of your land after a fire. Recorded in Bi...