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Tree Farmer Alert |
Friday, April 5, 2013 |
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Feds project climate change will double wildfire risk in forestsBy Bruce Finley The Denver Post The hotter, drier climate will transform Rocky Mountain forests, unleashing wider wildfires and insect attacks, federal scientists warn in a report for Congress and the White House. The U.S. Forest Service scientists project that, by 2050, the area burned each year by increasingly severe wildfires will at least double, to around 20 million acres nationwide. Some regions, including western Colorado, are expected to face up to a fivefold increase in acres burned if climate change continues on the current trajectory. ________________________ Lessons Learned from Waldo CanyonFIRE ADAPTED COMMUNITIES MITIGATION ASSESSMENT TEAM FINDINGS submitted by Phillip Howe, woodland owner The Waldo Canyon fire presented the first opportunity for partners in the national Fire Adapted Communities (FAC) Coalition to collectively assess the performance of mitigation practices in Colorado Springs in a post-fire environment and to compare the results to the mitigation strategy recommended by the Fire Adapted Communities program. __________________________ U.S. Starts Massive Forest-Thinning ProjectBy Tiffany Stecker and ClimateWire "While the Schultz fire visibly marked the landscape, the damage was relatively benign compared with the floods that came a month later. The fire had stripped the hills of trees and vegetation, and soil erosion left a smooth slope allowing the summer rains to push an avalanche of mud, rocks and other debris down into the community. A 12-year-old girl was killed. Millions of dollars in damage ensued. The vulnerability left by the fire was unearthed -- literally." _______________________ Be Preparedhosted by the Colorado Tree Farmers "Be Prepared" is a community event to help people be better prepared to reduce the damage to their property and to increase the odds that their The event will address the questions:
“We were better prepared than most. But we were nowhere near as well prepared as we should have been. Or could have been.” – Linda Masterson, author of Surviving Wildfire - A Handbook for HomeownersWhen: Where: What time: Who is invited:
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