Fire Preparedness in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

Posted by Rachel Goodman | Aug 4, 2023 | All Talk, Climate Change, Housing & Homelessness, Local, Outdoors, Program, Rachel Anne Goodman, Science, Science & Nature, Talk of the Bay, Topics: Evergreen | 0

Talk of the Bay from KSQD

Fire Preparedness in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

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Sometimes conventional wisdom fails in the face of new scientific discoveries about how fire behaves and how to protect your home. Adrienne Edwards is a plant ecologist with a new book that challenges some of the old assumptions about clearing 100 feet from your home in the forest. She says native plants can actually protect us from embers if encouraged the right way. Learn more in this fascinating interview. FIRESCAPING YOUR HOME: A Manual for Readiness in Wildfire Country (Timber Press: June 20, 2023) by Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger

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Rachel Goodman

Rachel is host of Talk of the Bay and Board Chair of KSQD. She is the producer of radio documentaries such as Southern Songbirds: The Women of Early Country and Old Time Music, The Boomtown Chronicles, and Pastures of Plenty, a History of California Farmworkers. She teaches journalism at Cabrillo College in Aptos. She is a recipient of a Peabody award for excellence in journalism.