MAUI WITHOUT WARNING: 3/4: Fix America’s Forests: Reforms to Restore National Forests and Tackle the Wildfire Crisis. Holly Fretwell , Jonathan Wood
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🗓️ 12 August 2023
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MAUI WITHOUT WARNING: 3/4: 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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| 0:40.0 | I'm John Bachelors. This is the new John Bachelors show CBS Audio Network. |
| 0:44.0 | It's a pleasure to speak with Holly Fretwell of the Property Environment and Research Centre in Boseman, Montana, where Glory lives. |
| 0:51.0 | She and her colleague Jonathan Wood have published Fix America's Forest, |
| 0:55.0 | reforms to restore national forests and tackle the wildfire crisis. |
| 0:59.0 | If you know Perk and you've heard me talk to Perk over the years, |
| 1:02.0 | you know that the way forward is a partnership between private enterprise and the national forests or the state forests. |
| 1:10.0 | And what is to be done is to create those partnerships and Holly and Jonathan have examples here. |
| 1:16.0 | Holly, what is the National Forest Foundation? |
| 1:19.0 | And how does it work in, say, Northern Arizona and could work in Southern Arizona? |
| 1:24.0 | What does the model look like, Holly? |
| 1:26.0 | Well, the National Forest Foundation is a congressionally charted nonprofit |
| 1:30.0 | that actually takes revenues that the people are interested in donating to help manage the forest, |
| 1:36.0 | revenues coming in from other areas, grant funds, etc. |
| 1:38.0 | and then is able to pass those through to the forest service to get some of this work done. |
| 1:43.0 | So they are sort of the catalyst to create some of these collaborative groups and bring them together to be able to work with the forest service. |
| 1:49.0 | What we've seen in the Northern Arizona is a great project that's been taking place to try to enhance restoration in the region. |
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