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In Depth: Loophole in California’s Wildfire Strategy | Chad Hanson
California Insider | Chad Hanson, a forest and fire ecologist with the John Muir Project, explains why he thinks California is not addressing the wildfire situation effectively and how special interests are involved.
Read MoreOpposition Letter RE: Reconciliation and Infrastructure Bills Provisions
Are California’s Wildfires Really “Disasters”–or Just Something Natural?
By Piper McDaniel
Mother Jones
When a forest is torched by wildfire, what’s left behind is something resembling a dystopian hellscape. There are no green things, just a carpet of scorched earth and telltale piles of ash and debris: Here was a house, here a garden, here the shell of a car–and thousands of trees, stripped and blackened.
Read MoreAs Wildfire Threatens Giant Sequoias, We Explore the Future of Forest Management and Wildfire Mitigation
LAist | We talk with forest and fire ecologist Chad Hanson of the John Muir Project and Daniel Berlant, assistant deputy director and chief of wildfire planning and engineering for CAL FIRE, about the future of forest management and wildfire mitigation.
Read MoreCould the Infrastructure Bill Make Wildfires Worse?
By Adam Aton
E&E News
The West is burning, and Congress is responding with a fire hose of money. The bipartisan infrastructure deal that advanced yesterday through the Senate would spend billions of dollars on wildfire policy, with much of it earmarked for cutting trees and planting new ones. Some experts warn that approach could backfire.
Read MoreMisconceptions About Wildfires are Fueling the Problem
Scientific American | In this video, we talk to experts who say many accounts of California’s blazes sensationalize the extent of forest devastation while paying less attention to fire’s crucial role in nature.
Read MoreHas the Forest Service Been Making Wildfires Worse?
By Christopher Ketcham
The New Republic
The Bear fire was one of the largest of the over 8,000 wildfires that have beset California this year. Now incorporated into the still-burning North Complex Fire, the Bear started in the Plumas National Forest, sparked by a series of lightning strikes on August 17 across the northern Sierra Nevada.
Read MoreThe Butterfly Story of Fires and Trees Hosting Chad Hanson
The Butterfly Effect: Tree Stories | In this episode you will hear about Dr. Hanson’s work, the importance of wildfires to our forests, how we can prevent unnecessary fires, do we really have less fires historically [], and more.
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