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Woo-wee!
The wildland urban interface (WUI) is a place where homes, forests and wildfires meet. At the end of March, I went to a conference about the WUI put on by the International Association of Fire Chiefs in Reno, Nevada. The keynote address was on climate change, and there were interesting sessions about co-existing with wildfire, the recent fires in Australia, and the insurance industry and private protection services. There was also a six-foot, three-dimensional, fiberglass Smokey Bear for sale on the exhibit floor. . . If only I would have had more time for the slot machines!
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You should have stayed at the craps table with me!
Comment by Joe King on April 16, 2009 at 9:51 am -
[...] in Manhattan Faith Ann Heinsch spends a lot of time doing what I recently saw her do at a wildfire conference in Reno: helping firefighters (sometimes skeptical ones) understand what we know about climate change and [...]
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