wildfires

Fighting wildfire from the inside out

Great Article posted by Forest Unlimited. “Cutting roads through our natural treasures so the timber industry can take more trees won’t significantly reduce the danger to Paradise or other towns like it. And the industry wants large, old-growth trees more than the younger ones even though old trees are more fire resistant.” Fighting wildfire from …

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While we were distracted: White House Orders Up More Logging To Combat Wildfires

“While the order lists a number of forest threats made worse by climate change ― drought, disease, insect infestations, invasive species ― it ignores climate change as a whole. That comes as little surprise, given the misinformation and climate change denialism that the administration rolled out in response to the fires in August. All the …

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Wine grape ‘taint’ rises anew with huge 2018 Northern California wildfires

Wine grape ‘taint’ rises anew with huge 2018 Northern California wildfires NORTH BAY BUSINESS JOURNAL December 19, 2018, 9:29AM After the massive North Bay wildfires during harvest in October last year, record-sized blazes this summer in Mendocino and Lake counties, and big burns in Oregon, British Columbia and northeastern California, concerns about “smoke taint” in …

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Opinion: PG&E: Don’t Break it Up. Take it Over

PG&E: Don’t Break it Up. Take it Over The potential bankruptcy of the California utility whose negligence likely plays a role in California’s wildfires is an opportunity for the public to gain control of the state’s energy destiny by Johanna Bozuwa Cal Fire found that three separate wildfires across the state in 2017 were caused …

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How to survive a wildfire: let’s copy tactics from nature

“What the residents of Montecito may not have realized is that they were effectively copying nature on how to live with fire, a strategy known as biomimicry. Some trees have evolved to grow thick bark that serves as armor against the heat of fires. Like these trees, residents used stucco and fiber cement siding, Spanish …

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Californians are now lab rats for the long-term effects of toxic wildfire smoke

“We do know that [for] women who are pregnant and exposed to wildfire smoke, it will put them at an increased risk for low birth weight of a baby,” Balmes told Salon. Doug Brugge, author of “Particles in the Air: The Deadliest Pollutant is One You Breathe Every Day,” tells Salon potential cognitive consequences should …

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