Wildfires in the West have exploded in recent years, leading to hundreds of lost lives, billions of dollars in property losses, and, for many people, a fundamental rethinking of the prospects for the region. Climate change, fuels management, and the number of people in fire-prone regions are interacting to increase risk.
Harvard Forest will hold a The Changing Landscape of Western Wildfire Risk lecture at the Fisher Museum and online on October 20th at 11 a.m.
Some of the options for risk reduction are reasonably well understood and ready to deploy. Others require not only more research but also deep conversations about the kinds of human/environment interfaces we want. Questions about strategic relocation, redesigning the urban-wildland interface, and changing the fundamental character of ecosystems all need to be addressed.
This lecture by Chris Field, Director of the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, will explore some of these issues.
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The annual Charles Bullard Lectures were established by the Harvard Forest in 2022 to honor and learn from renowned scholars of forest ecology and conservation. The Lectures are supported by the Charles Bullard endowment and are closely associated with Harvard’s long-running Bullard Fellowship, a distinguished scholar-in-residence program for forest research. |
