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  • Need Growing for Fire Mitigation in Homes at Wildland-Urban Interface

    March 28, 2018 |

    KBUT Community Radio |

    Radio |

    3-5 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Colorado

    A nonprofit in Colorado helps homeowners protect their properties from fires by making them “stand-alone defensible.” That means controlling fuels on the property to affect a fire's behavior and possibly avoid losing the home if fire suppression crews cannot reach the site. This is especially important as more homes are at risk because more people build in areas closer to wilderness and Western fires are growing bigger and hotter due to climate change and drought.

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  • In a Historic Downtown, Disaster Becomes a Chance to Build Something Better

    March 20, 2018 |

    Bloomberg CityLab |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Clarkesville, Georgia

    After a fire destroyed much of downtown Clarkesville, the city invested millions of dollars in properties to restore. Local government leaders sought feedback from community members, and the result was a revitalized downtown, an improved version of the previous downtown. The redevelopment success can be a model for other cities.

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  • As Fire Risk Explodes Across the West, an Oregon City Finds a Solution

    February 20, 2018 |

    News Deeply |

    Text |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Ashland, Oregon

    To mitigate against the threat of devastating wildfires and destruction of water supply, Ashland, Oregon has been thinning their previously overgrown forests for years through controlled burns and logging efforts. While these effort have not always been easy, and took a great deal of community buy-in, they appear to be providing a solution to saving their one and only water supply from destruction.

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  • Three Dogs Are Rebuilding Chilean Forests Once Devastated By Fire

    February 19, 2018 |

    Green Matters |

    Multi-Media |

    Under 800 Words

    Response Location: Chile, Maule

    In the wake of more than 100 forest fires in Maule, Chile, hundreds of burned acres of forest are being replanted by three Border Collies named Das, Olivia, and Summer and an organization called Pewos. The dogs bound through miles of terrain with special backpacks that release native seeds to regrow the area. So far the dogs have worked in 15 forests in the region and plants are starting to come back.

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  • Yes, Something Can Be Done About Wildfires

    December 19, 2017 |

    The New York Times |

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    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: United States, Bend, Oregon

    Ventura County, which has been covered in relentless wildfires, can learn a thing or two from its northernly neighbor Deschutes County, which hasn't lost a single house to regular wildfires since 2003. The reason? A comprehensive approach to removing and thinning out trees and other flammable materials around homes.

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  • Ancestral Pueblo logging practices could save New Mexico pinelands

    December 11, 2017 |

    High Country News |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Santa Fe, New Mexico

    As wildfires become increasingly more prevalent and powerful, researchers in New Mexico are turning their attention to mitigation successes from ancestral generations. By implementing some of these methods such as selective logging, the hope is that intentional thinning of forests will lead to similar results.

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  • Georgia Initiative Brings Business To The Table To Save A Rare Animal

    December 06, 2017 |

    WABE |

    Multi-Media |

    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Gopher tortoises might be labelled as endangered under federal law, which brings strict guidelines that businesses want to avoid. Georgia Gopher Tortoise Initiative is dedicated to finding gophers in their natural habitat and protecting the areas they are found in, as well as other methods to help grow the population.

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  • Day care and mud guards: How health officials are building a firewall against deadly burns

    November 30, 2017 |

    Public Radio International (PRI) |

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    800-1500 Words

    Response Location: Nepal, Kathmandu

    After studying where and how severe burns were happening to people in developing countries like Bangladesh and Nepal, it became clear what was needed for effective prevention. Inexpensive day care got children out of the home during the day when supervision could be lax, and mud walls around ground cooking fires provided additional household safety.

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  • The Science of Fighting Wildfires Gets a Satellite Boost

    September 11, 2017 |

    Wired |

    Multi-Media |

    1500-3000 Words

    Response Location: Canada

    Climate change is only worsening the frequency and ferocity of forest fires. Projects such as researching what makes trees more susceptible to fires, and having satellites send images of fires as they happen, in order to help forest services react most effectively, are new ideas being researched and implemented.

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  • America's ring of fire

    June 17, 2017 |

    Reveal |

    Podcast |

    Over 15 Minutes

    Response Location: United States, Flagstaff, Arizona

    After a wildfire in 2010 burned 15,000 acres outside Flagstaff, triggering evacuations and a fatal landslide, voters approved a $10 million bond issue to transform the local fire department and fire-prevention practices. Part 4 of a package of stories on rampant homebuilding in wildfire-prone forests (starts at 35:25) tells how firefighters spend most of their time cutting trees to thin the forest to mimic its pre-settlement form, when periodic fires were a normal and small-scale threat. Suppressing all fires, letting forests thicken, and building homes in them calls for a new prevention ethos.

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