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Study: Lake Tahoe Wildfire Evacuation Times May Exceed 14 Hours

August 29, 2024 10:57 amAugust 30, 2024 12:46 pm

Yesterday, a first-ever independent Tahoe Basin Wildfire Evacuation Analysis (see below), combining artificial intelligence (AI) and real-life Sierra Nevada wildfire experience, reveals Tahoe workers, residents, and visitors to California and Nevada’s iconic Lake Tahoe could face dangerously long, potentially life-threatening wildfire evacuations. The release of the Placer and Washoe Tahoe...

OPINION: Prescribed Fires Enhance Forest Resilience

July 16, 2024 12:30 pmJuly 30, 2024 11:07 pm

This opinion editorial serves as a rebuttal to “Burn Back Better? USFS Chief’s Letter Of Intent Provokes Revolt In The Firefighting Community“ One of the best methods for reducing the impact of wildfires to the forest is to reduce the number of trees per acre by thinning, leaving the larger...

Burn Back Better? USFS Chief’s Letter of Intent Provokes Revolt in the Firefighting Community

May 28, 2024 8:52 pmMay 30, 2024 11:10 am

“The Forest Service has no authority to let fires burn millions of acres—misappropriating tax dollars and recklessly destroying our natural resources…It’s an inverse condemnation of private property and wanton destruction of public resources, pure and simple,” Chief forester Frank Carroll The United States Forest Service (USFS) just gave firefighters license...

License to Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Public-Private Partnership (Part Three)

May 6, 2024 1:42 pmMay 14, 2024 11:58 am

This is Part Three of the three-part series “License to Burn”. Part One can be found here. Part Two is linked here. “Someday in the near future, fire will again be part of the landscape’s ecology, even roaming through our backyards without being a threat to our communities.” Forest Schafer,...

License to Burn: Wildfire as the Ultimate Public-Private Partnership (Part Two)

April 29, 2024 10:50 amSeptember 10, 2024 4:02 pm

The following is Part Two of “License to Burn.” Part One of the series can be found here. Part Three can be found here. On the night of August 14, 2021—exactly 365 days after the announced Fire Stewardship MOU—a small fire flared up a few miles from Grizzly Flats—a simple...

License To Burn: Wildfire As the Ultimate Private-Public Partnership

April 22, 2024 11:42 amMay 20, 2024 1:36 pm

This is Part One of a three-part series. Part Two of the series can be found here. Part Three is found here. With increasingly intense wildfires over recent years, we in the West are expected to embrace the new wildfire normal, as if it’s normal to have multiple catastrophic fires...