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Learning to live with wildfires: how communities can become fire-adapted
2016-07-07 08:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
The Conversation: In recent years wildfire seasons in the western United States have become so intense that many of us who make our home in dry, fire-prone areas are grappling with how to live with fire. When I moved to a small town in eastern Washington in 2004, I thought I was prepared for the reality of wildfires. As a fire ecologist, I had studied climate change and knew the predictions of hotter, drier and longer fire seasons. But the severity and massive size of recent wildfires in our area have highlighted...
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