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What California Can Learn From How the South Manages Wildfires
2016-07-02 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
City Lab: There are three things that give him joy in life, says Johnny Stowe: Beer, my grandkids, and fire. Not a campsite fire, or a house fire, but fire that Stowe prescribes and manages across the wild lands of South Carolina. As a heritage-preserve manager for the states department of natural resources, Stowe works with crews to set ablaze predetermined swathes of land around the state, carefully burning off undergrowth with low-intensity flames along carefully planned control lines. Every year, in...
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Thousands of structures at risk in northern California wildfire
2016-07-01 18:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Thousands of structures were threatened and hundreds of people fled their homes ahead of a wildfire ravaging in a section of the Eldorado National Forest north of Sacramento, federal officials said on Friday. Firefighters have been able to carve containment lines around 12 percent of the so-called Trailhead Fire, which started on Tuesday afternoon and has grown to blacken 2,151 acres, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Jennifer Chapman said. The wildfire is moving slowly through mixed conifer...
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As wildfires challenge California, the causes go beyond climate
2016-07-01 11:24:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Science Monitor: On a chain-link fence along Route 39 hangs a homemade poster, peppered with hearts, thanking firefighters and police. The sign, one of a handful scattered across town, salutes efforts to battle the San Gabriel Complex fire, twin blazes that had erupted on June 20 in the mountains of Angeles National Forest just to the north of the city. Within a day of igniting, the fire had burned through nearly 5,000 acres and forced hundreds to evacuate. Nearly a week passed before the US Forest Service...
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California Recycling Levels Fall Below 50%
2016-06-30 15:17:00| Waste Age
New data from the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery showed that Californias overall recycling rate fell to 47 percent in 2015. read more
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Chase Elliott Wins K&N Pro Series West Race at Sonoma Raceway in California
2016-06-29 23:38:26| K&N Racing News
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series rookie returns to K&N Pro Series for tune-up
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