1/4: #Bestof2021: Fires, droughts, flood and heat are climate change & What is to be done? : 1/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood
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1/4: #Bestof2021: Fires, droughts, flood and heat are climate change & What is to be done? : 1/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood
https://www.perc.org/2021/04/12/fix-americas-forests-reforms-to-restore-national-forests-and-tackle-the-wildfire-crisis/
In 2020, the largest wildfire in California history scorched six counties in the northern part of the state. The August Complex Fire burned more than one million acres across three national forests and destroyed hundreds of structures. But devastating fires are not limited to California. Across the West, more than 10 million acres burned in 2020—a record in modern history. These fires consumed more than 17,500 structures and more than $3.5 billion in firefighting costs.Tragically, dozens of lives were lost, and many more people were displaced by evacuation orders. Fires released smoke that degraded air quality nearby and hundreds of miles away. They also destroyed wildlife habitat, including for imperiled species, and the fires’ aftereffects will soon lead to erosion that harms water quality in local watersheds
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| 0:42.0 | It's a great pleasure to welcome Holly Fretwell of the Property Environment and Research Center Perk, |
| 0:47.5 | a Boatman Montana. Recently Holly and her colleague Jonathan Wood have published a new |
| 0:53.2 | guide to American Forest. It's entitled Fix America's Forest, reforms to restore national |
| 0:59.8 | forests and tackle the wildfire crisis. Wildfire crisis, Holly. |
| 1:03.6 | Congratulations and good evening. Wildfire crisis is vaguely appropriate to the scale of this. |
| 1:11.1 | In California in 2020, I covered these fires. They ranged right up to the edge and into the |
| 1:17.5 | wealthiest parts of the state and also the most remote and beautiful parts of the state. |
| 1:22.4 | The statistics say 9,600 fires burned 4.7, 4.4 million acres, |
| 1:29.6 | 4% of the state's roughly 100 million acres in California alone. |
| 1:34.7 | You're describing something much more vast. These wildfires, do they weigh on the states where |
| 1:41.5 | they range across or do people shrug and say, business is usual, we live out west. Good evening to you, Holly. |
| 1:47.1 | Good evening and thank you so much for inviting me, John. For sure, people feel these fires heavily, |
| 1:53.6 | heavily when they come across the landscape. Even if it's not in your own state but in another state, |
| 1:58.2 | we are often suffering the smoke that's coming from other states. California fires, Idaho fires, |
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