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Written by Miloš Jovanović on 2025-01-11 at 21:37

I'm trying to get a good understanding of existing fire-smart prevention techniques in Southern California. I'm sure climate and environmental scientists are inundated right now, but if anyone has a good set of sources to read through, I'd much appreciate it!

The California landscape is very similar to parts of Yugoslavia/Mediterranean I am familiar with. I'm thinking about things like this over there:

https://www.istituto-oikos.org/files/risorsa/2023/Fire_Smart_Landscapes_Oikos_ENdef.pdf

[#]California #Wildfires #ClimateScience

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Written by Miloš Jovanović on 2025-01-11 at 21:40

I am particularly interested in ways in which fire-smart prevention is coupled with returning custody of land to indigenous groups, how climate resiliency can be coupled with #LandBack.

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Written by clew on 2025-01-11 at 21:42

I've been thinking about that and trying to simultaneously think about the --the "slow water loop"? that was posted about here a few months ago.

Fire-safe rules as I know them in the US involve more and more gravel surrounds, continuous breaks in tree cover, etc. Which protect the buildings they're immediately around.

BUT they also make the landscape they're in hotter and drier and more fire-prone; the research I'm thinking of suggested that this kind of human development has tipped entire landscapes over into new, floodier, fierier regimes.

The only middle path I've come up with is, more grazing in the forests, and annual vines as shade right next to buildings that can be cut down and dragged away quickly if fire comes anyway. But I'm no expert, just mourning cool green landscapes.

@loshmi

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Written by Katykayay on 2025-01-11 at 21:44

@loshmi Here is a web site you might find useful.

https://www.wildlandfirersg.org/s/are-you-wildfire-ready?language=en_US

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Written by Miloš Jovanović on 2025-01-11 at 21:51

@KateConnors Hm, much of this seems very different from what I was looking for, but interesting to think about.

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