A searchable public chronology of independently reported media, government and university records, partner documentation, broadcasts, podcasts, conference appearances, and Biochar Coalition's own historical archive from 2020 through August 10, 2026.
People: Stephen Feher; Preston Englant (lineage/context)
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Partner workshop/public release
Workshop series documenting Stephen Feher, Butte College biochar R&D, and Butte County field demonstrations that form part of the local technical lineage preceding Biochar Coalition.
People: Preston Englant
Location: Butte County / Camp Fire burn scar, CA
Media type: Television news / web article
Independent local television coverage of Preston Englant leading a biochar demonstration with Butte College and the Butte County Fire Safe Council.
People: Preston Englant
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Technical white paper
Technical white paper includes a Paradise wildfire-fuels/biochar use case involving Preston Englant and planned deployment of a large RoCC kiln.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Kenneth Scherer; founding members
Location: Durham / Nevada City / Northern California
Media type: Organizational history
Coalition About page states that after attending a Ring of Fire kiln seminar in Durham in 2021, participants decided to organize their biochar efforts around fire and climate resilience.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: California
Media type: Event archive
Early Coalition-owned public event record documenting hands-on biochar education.
People: Preston Englant
Location: New Mexico
Media type: Partner educational feature
Fire Adapted New Mexico documents a biochar kiln burn led by Preston Englant, showing interstate field education.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: Nevada County, CA
Media type: Magazine-style guest article
Substantive guest-authored article by Tabor Teachout on biochar, wildfire fuels, forest resilience, and soil fertility.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Magalia, CA
Media type: Event archive
Early Coalition event archive for a Magalia biochar workshop.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: Northern California
Media type: Guest article / author profile
Kenneth Scherer guest-author article and author biography identifies him as part of the Biochar Coalition and discusses regenerative soil methods.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Concow, CA
Media type: Event archive
Early Coalition-owned record of a public biochar workshop in Concow.
People: Ari / Chari / Ariela Mashiah
Location: United States / Nevada County context
Media type: Federal/forestry webinar materials
Public webinar material documents Ari Mashiah and biochar production/education work connected to Nevada County.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: Woodstock, VT
Media type: Newspaper feature
Original reporting and photography of Ken Scherer operating a Ring of Fire kiln in Vermont while traveling to conduct biochar demonstrations.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: Woodstock, VT / New Hampshire readership
Media type: News/blog amplification
Independent Granite Geek/Concord Monitor coverage amplifying Ken's Vermont biochar demonstration and Valley News reporting.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive documenting biochar production paired with tree planting in Paradise.
People: Ariela Mashiah; C. Tabor Teachout
Location: International / United Kingdom publication
Media type: Magazine article
International print-magazine article by Ariela Mashiah and C. Tabor Teachout on biochar, cultural fire, forest-fire risk, soil health, and carbon storage.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: California
Media type: Video
Public YouTube video featuring Tabor Teachout discussing biochar. Exact upload date should be captured from YouTube when archiving.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event record for a Good Fire and biochar workshop in Paradise.
People: Biochar practitioners / BCFSC partners
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Television news / web article
Local TV coverage of a Morgan Ridge biochar demonstration and fuels-reduction work day. Partner social records connect Biochar Coalition to the same work.
People: John Maher
Location: Eden, NY
Media type: University newsletter
Daemen University newsletter identifies John Maher of Lake View as a Biochar Coalition board member and presenter at the Eden demonstration.
People: John Maher
Location: Western New York
Media type: Social/community event post
Public community post promoting a Biochar Coalition demonstration with John Maher displaying a live biochar burn.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: California
Media type: Official regulatory comment
Tabor Teachout submits formal Coalition comment urging recognition of biochar production in forest management and recovery.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Biochar Coalition
Location: California
Media type: Official government archive index
Board of Forestry workshop archive formally indexes the Biochar Coalition policy comment in its 2024 materials.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: California
Media type: Official regulatory-review summary
Official Board document summarizes Tabor Teachout's biochar proposal and records the requested regulatory consideration.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Stephen Feher
Location: Sacramento, CA
Media type: Conference presentation archive
Conference archive includes Tabor Teachout's Biochar Coalition presentation and a separate Stephen Feher/Butte College technical presentation. This is USBI conference material, not the separate US Biochar Coalition.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Video
Public YouTube video titled Biochar Coalition Seminar - Paradise. Capture exact upload date and channel metadata when archiving.
People: Tim Hardin; Biochar Coalition
Location: Chico, CA
Media type: Social video/reel
Indexed social record identifies Biochar Coalition, Chico address context, and Tim Hardin in a woody-residue biochar-production post.
People: Biochar Coalition presenters
Location: Durham, CA
Media type: Partner newsletter
BEC newsletter promotes the Old Durham Wood workshop and Coalition biochar education.
People: Tim Hardin; Kenneth Scherer
Location: Chico / Butte County, CA
Media type: Partner event feature
Public event listing featuring Tim Hardin and Ken Scherer combining biochar production with soil biology and regenerative agriculture.
People: Tim Hardin; Kenneth Scherer
Location: California
Media type: Professional social media
Public professional post identifying Tim Hardin and Kenneth Scherer as Biochar Coalition members and promoting seminar participation.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Old Durham Wood, Butte County, CA
Media type: Official government correspondence
Official Butte County Board correspondence preserves the invitation to the Coalition educational workshop at Old Durham Wood.
People: Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Official public-agency board packet
Official PRPD packet describes a Biochar Coalition-led demonstration and includes a photograph captioned with Ken Scherer lighting a pile.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Durham, CA
Media type: Partner newsletter recap
Post-event BEC recap documents the workshop and its outcome, stronger corroboration than event promotion alone.
People: Ari / Chari Mashiah; Kenneth Scherer; C. Tabor Teachout
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Institutional event PDF
Two-page public flyer states the workshop is led by Biochar Coalition and names Ari/Chari, Kenneth Scherer, and Tabor Teachout.
People: Ari / Chari Mashiah; Kenneth Scherer; C. Tabor Teachout
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition-owned archive for the Nevada City workshop, useful alongside the independent/partner flyer.
People: John Maher
Location: Eden, NY
Media type: Independent gardening publication
Independent regional gardening publication promotes the Henry's Gardens workshop and identifies John Maher as a founding member of Biochar Coalition.
People: John Maher
Location: Eden, NY
Media type: Event archive
Coalition-owned record of the Eden, New York workshop.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Podcast interview
Long-form audio interview with Ken Scherer focused on biochar.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: California
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive documenting Camp Catalyst biochar programming.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Written profile
Extended written profile of Ken Scherer as an environmentalist, entrepreneur, soil advocate, and Biochar Coalition leader.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Nevada County, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition archive for a Nevada County Master Gardeners-related biochar event. Page metadata is imperfect, so preserve with a screenshot.
People: Biochar Coalition and partner organizations
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Community feature / program archive
Community story announcing the multi-organization Great Biochar Cook Off and listing Biochar Coalition among participating organizations.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive for Noble Park Biochar Cook Off programming.
People: Biochar Coalition representatives
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Official municipal program record
City page documents the 2025 biochar kiln pilot, community education, subsequent workshops, committee review, and continuing consideration of kilns within city limits.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: California / online
Media type: Professional network announcement
Public professional-network message says Ken Scherer of Biochar Coalition would share pictures, stories, and data from more than three years of California biochar projects.
People: Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition
Location: California
Media type: Public burn-plan document
Publicly indexed CAL FIRE burn-plan attachment identifies Biochar Coalition operations and Kenneth Scherer responsibilities.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: United States
Media type: Technical practitioner article
Kelpie Wilson credits Biochar Coalition for a biochar technique later described in a 2024 Journal of Visualized Experiments method.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Partner social media
Partner-side public post describes Tabor Teachout as a founder of the Biochar Coalition in the context of forest and working-lands management.
People: Biochar Coalition / BCFSC partners
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Partner social media
Partner-side indexed post promoting biochar kiln activity at Morgan Ridge in Paradise.
People: Biochar Coalition; partner organizations
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Partner social media
Public partner post says multiple local organizations, including Biochar Coalition, joined forces on a prescribed-fire/fuels project.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Kenneth Scherer
Location: Shasta County, CA
Media type: College event promotion
Shasta College public post lists Tabor Teachout and Ken Scherer of Biochar Coalition presenting Doing Biochar Right.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition-owned record of the Great Biochar Cookoff.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition archive of a Paradise/Morgan Ridge kiln workshop.
People: Kenneth Scherer; Tim Hardin
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Partner newsletter recap
BEC recap of Good Fire weekend names Kenneth Scherer and Tim Hardin of Biochar Coalition among speakers and lists the Coalition as an event partner.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive for a Nevada City community biochar day.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition-owned record of the municipal biochar pilot, useful beside the City of Nevada City government record.
People: John Maher
Location: Western New York
Media type: Conference / public seminar program
Official Plantasia seminar schedule lists John Maher, Biochar Coalition, presenting Garden Char: Biochar's Regenerative Impact on Soil.
People: Peter Rodenger / Peter Roediger / Peter Röediger
Location: Willits, CA
Media type: Event archive
Public Coalition record profiling Peter and his biochar/gasification discussion. Search/archive under all surname variants.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Official municipal agenda
Official Town Council agenda lists a presentation by Biochar Coalition Executive Director Kenneth Scherer on the benefits of biochar for vegetation management.
People: Tom Wade
Location: Nevada County, CA
Media type: Public educational event feature
Public feature documenting Biochar Coalition board member Tom Wade's broader soil-health and regenerative education work.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: Lassen County, CA
Media type: Official meeting minutes
Minutes record that Tabor Teachout of Biochar Coalition presented current project information.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Radio program / audio archive
KZFR Ecotopia episode on the proposed Oroville biomass facility includes Ken Scherer as a biochar proponent.
People: Biochar Coalition; Maidu Summit Consortium
Location: Dixie Fire area / Plumas County, CA
Media type: Independent newspaper / community news
Independent regional news documents the Maidu Summit Consortium partnership with Biochar Coalition to educate a workforce about biochar and sustainable land management after the Dixie Fire.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Placerville, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition-owned record of the El Dorado County/Placerville biochar symposium.
People: Seth Mitchell
Location: Cohasset, CA
Media type: Podcast interview
Long-form interview focused on Seth Mitchell's experiences during the Park Fire and his community wildfire response.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Hornbrook, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event record documenting community biochar education in Siskiyou County.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Shasta County, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive documenting Shasta-area outreach.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Butte County, CA
Media type: Foundation funding record
NVCF publicly lists Biochar Coalition support for community fuels-reduction and land-restoration programming, including Concow biochar work.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Online
Media type: Industry webcast / public meeting
Coalition public post announces a Biochar On Site monthly meeting presentation focused on Coalition workforce-development initiatives, successes, and struggles.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Parlier, CA
Media type: Training event archive
Coalition archive documents participation in the Growing with Biochar agricultural training event.
People: Biochar Coalition; community kiln operators
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition archive for a multi-kiln exposition at Nevada City School of the Arts.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Biochar Coalition
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Technical field article
Original Sierra Streams Institute article documents a Coalition-led multi-kiln burn, Tabor's temperature hypothesis, and thermocouple measurements.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Kenneth Scherer
Location: Amador / El Dorado Counties, CA
Media type: Industry news article
Industry media coverage of Biochar Coalition collaboration with the Amador-El Dorado Forest Forum on on-site biochar and wildfire-risk reduction.
People: Kenneth Scherer; John Maher; Biochar Coalition
Location: Eden, NY
Media type: Industry news article
Industry coverage of Coalition/Henry's Gardens East Coast production education.
People: Kenneth Scherer; John Maher
Location: Eden, NY
Media type: Partner social media
Partner-side public post explicitly names biochar experts Kenneth Scherer and John Maher of the Biochar Coalition.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Online
Media type: Podcast/video episode
Season 4 Episode 08 titled The Biochar Coalition. Preserve as a separate organization-level long-form media appearance.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: California
Media type: Public policy video
Public Coalition video documenting engagement with California wildfire and forest-resilience policy.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Online
Media type: Channel archive
Public YouTube channel containing videos and Shorts on enrichment, quenching, kiln prototypes, seminars, policy engagement, and field work.
People: Biochar Coalition; Nevada City participants
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Professional social media
Public LinkedIn post documents municipal biochar training in Nevada City with three kilns and community/fire-crew participation.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Kenneth Scherer
Location: Nevada County, CA
Media type: Radio / podcast interview
KVMR Garden Forum interviews Tabor Teachout and Kenneth Scherer specifically as representatives of Biochar Coalition.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Biochar Coalition; MAMO Gardens participants
Location: International / Africa online outreach
Media type: Recorded international conversation
Recorded conversation documenting Coalition outreach with MAMO Gardens Model Farm Initiative and peer-to-peer biochar education.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Industry news article
Industry coverage of field measurements of mobile kiln temperatures, identifying Tabor Teachout as Biochar Coalition president.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Siskiyou County, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition archive documenting Siskiyou Fire Safe Council outreach.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Forest Ranch, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition field-event archive in Forest Ranch.
People: C. Tabor Teachout; Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition
Location: Amador / El Dorado Counties, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive for a strategic forest-forum briefing.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Oroville, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive for Oroville wildfire-resilience/biochar training.
People: Kenneth Scherer
Location: California / online
Media type: University webinar
UC ANR Forest Stewardship webinar lists Kenneth Scherer, Executive Director of Biochar Coalition, alongside UC ANR and forestry professionals.
People: Kenneth Scherer; C. Tabor Teachout
Location: California / online
Media type: University webinar recording
University-hosted recording of the Forest Stewardship biochar webinar, with Coalition participation.
People: Peter Rodenger / Peter Roediger / Peter Röediger
Location: Online
Media type: Long-form podcast/video interview
Season 4, Episode 02, approximately 1 hour 2 minutes, devoted to Peter's fire ecology, forest/rangeland stewardship, and Biochar Coalition work.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: North Coast, CA
Media type: University field day
Separate UC ANR North Coast field-day listing names Biochar Coalition and covers biochar applications for small forest landowners.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Vermont
Media type: Television program / video promo
Vermont television program promotes VORS and notes that Biochar Coalition participants are coming from California for a three-hour workshop.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Tuolumne County, CA
Media type: University field day
UC ANR official listing invites landowners and professionals to a field day with the Biochar Coalition, including Ring of Fire demonstration.
People: Biochar Coalition; Chico State Student Association for Fire Ecology
Location: Chico, CA
Media type: University-partner event archive
Public record of Coalition work with Chico State's Student Association for Fire Ecology.
People: C. Tabor Teachout
Location: Online
Media type: Long-form podcast/video interview
Season 4 Episode 10 long-form interview with Biochar Coalition president Tabor Teachout.
People: Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Vermont
Media type: Conference workshop recording
Recorded VORS workshop focused on producing biochar and applying it on farms.
People: Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Montpelier, VT
Media type: Conference / workshop
Coalition archive documents participation in VORS, including biochar production and field application education.
People: Biochar Coalition; Compost for Good; Driscoll Family Farm; River Valley Regeneratives
Location: Saranac, NY
Media type: Institutional / partner workshop
ANCA's Compost for Good event page states that the March 29 on-farm biochar workshop was co-hosted by Driscoll Family Farm, River Valley Regeneratives, Compost for Good, and Biochar Coalition, with support through USDA Northeast SARE.
People: Peter Rodenger / Peter Roediger; Biochar Coalition
Location: Forestville, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event record featuring Peter and field experience with flame-cap carbonization and land-based fire stewardship.
People: Seth Mitchell; Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Cohasset, CA
Media type: Community event archive
Coalition archive documenting Cohasset community stewardship and cleanup.
People: Biochar Coalition participants
Location: Paradise, CA
Media type: Event archive
Coalition event archive for a Paradise Ridge stewardship event.
People: Tim Hardin; Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition
Location: Oroville, CA
Media type: Garden/community event archive
Coalition event archive documenting soil-fertility and biochar outreach in Oroville.
People: John Maher; Kenneth Scherer; Biochar Coalition
Location: Orchard Park, NY
Media type: Community festival / event archive
Coalition event archive for outreach at a large community festival in Orchard Park.
People: Biochar Coalition
Location: Nevada City, CA
Media type: Fundraiser / gathering archive
Public Coalition event listing for the June 7 fundraiser/gathering at The Ham Stand in Nevada City.
This archive separates independent media, public-agency and institutional records, partner documentation, and Coalition-owned historical material so readers can distinguish third-party reporting from the organization's own record.
No public-web search can guarantee discovery of every deleted post, print-only clipping, private-group item, expired page, or unindexed recording. Verified additions can be incorporated as they are recovered.
For historical accuracy, the separate organization commonly abbreviated USBC is not included unless a specific record explicitly and independently involves the Biochar Coalition documented here.
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