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More Than 70 Groups Reject Proposed Wildfire Budget Favoring Timber/Habitat Clearance Interests Over Communities at Risk

News / March 17, 2021

WRONG NEWSOM & Sonoma County: “Nine out of the 16,909 fires in California during 2017 and 2018 caused 95% of the damage. All nine fires occurred under extreme, wind-driven conditions where vegetation clearance projects proved ineffective.” More Than 70 Groups Reject Proposed Wildfire Budget Favoring Timber/Habitat Clearance Interests Over Communities at Risk For Immediate Release, …

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The Science that is being ignored by the “biomass” project

Climate, Community Rights/Rights of Nature, News, Resources / February 8, 2021

Previously logged areas burnt with such ferocity that residents barely had time to escape…. “At this point, anyone––who is still promoting logging as “fuel reduction”, and saying the problem is in our forests, or a lack of firefighting resources or denying the fact that weather and climate change are the dominant drivers of fire behavior …

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The Science that is being ignored by the “biomass” project

Climate, Community Rights/Rights of Nature, News, Resources / January 30, 2021

Previously logged areas burnt with such ferocity that residents barely had time to escape…. “At this point, anyone––who is still promoting logging as “fuel reduction”, and saying the problem is in our forests, or a lack of firefighting resources or denying the fact that weather and climate change are the dominant drivers of fire behavior …

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Active Fire Map & How to survive wildfires: 10 Simple Wildfire Survival Tips

Climate, Community Rights, News / November 1, 2020

CalFire active fire map: https://caltopo.com/map.html#ll=38.5009,-122.57041&z=11&b=t&a=modis_mp%2Cwxd_wspd-09 How to survive wildfires: 10 Simple Wildfire Survival Tips From our friends in the Northwest 10 Simple Wildfire Survival Tips Posted on  August 23, 2012  by matt Wildfires are fast moving and unpredictable. In the recent years wildfires have become a real threat to areas that were once thought not prone. You can …

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‘Catastrophic’ fire danger for Sydney as Australian wildfires rage

Climate, Community Rights/Rights of Nature, News, Resources / November 11, 2019

“Australia is the world’s largest exporter of coal and liquid natural gas. It is also the world’s driest continent after Antarctic, which scientist say leaves Australians particularly vulnerable to weather extremes associated with a changing climate. Huffington Post: “Sydney, the country’s most populous city, has been designated at “catastrophic fire danger” for Tuesday, when temperatures …

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