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January 31
County presses ahead with plans to raise fire tax
Santa Cruz Sentinel
SANTA CRUZ -- County leaders decided last week to weigh voter sentiment toward an expanded fire protection tax, approving a $30,000 contract with a Soquel polling firm and, in the process, angering many who say it's not the time to raise taxes.
Super soaker DC10 fights Mallee fire
The Sydney Morning Herald
Victoria's new DC10 water bomber has been used on a bushfire for the first time, helping to quell a fast-running blaze in remote Mallee scrub in Victoria's far northwest.
January 27
Oregon wildfires released far less greenhouse gas than previously estimated, researchers say
The Oregonian
Some of the worst forest fires in Oregon's recent history consumed far fewer trees and released far less carbon dioxide than previously estimated, a new study by Oregon State University researchers concludes.
January 21
Editorial:
The NIMBYs of Malibu
Misguided residents succeed in blocking a fire camp staffed in part by prison inmates.
Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles County Fire Department officials were considering using a station in Malibu as a temporary replacement for a conservation camp on Mt. Gleason that was destroyed last summer by the devastating Station fire. But when residents of the beachfront city realized that the camp would be staffed by prison inmates, they began organizing to stop it. They succeeded Wednesday, when Fire Chief P. Michael Freeman announced that he would look elsewhere.
January 20
Some Utah cities shirking cost of fighting wildfires
Deseret News
SALT LAKE CITY — The foothills along the Wasatch Front may be dusted with snow, but the heat of summer will bring the threat of wildland fires, and not everyone is shouldering the cost it takes to fight them.
Oregon Logging Increase Challenged by Ashland Pol
Courthouse News Service
MEDFORD, Ore. (CN) - The Forest Service's fire-protection plan for the Siskiyou Mountains violates three federal forest-management laws, increases logging in critical Northern Spotted Owl habitat and endangers the primary water source for the city of Ashland, an Ashland city councilman claims in Federal Court.
January 6
Final fire stats are in, and 2009 was a mild wildfire season for California
San Jose Mercury News
The economy struggled, unemployment was sky-high and swine flu raged across the landscape. But California actually got lucky in 2009 in one big area: fires.
January 5
Study: Climate change means greater risk of catastrophic wildfire
The Clark Fork Chronicle
Leading University of Montana researchers have released results of a new study that shows climate change will increase drought stress in northern Rocky Mountain forests, leading to increased potential for insect infestations and risk of more frequent and severe wildfires.
Fire-menaced communities may get back-road escapes
Forest Service asks county to propose second access route for settlements
The Payson Roundup
Scattered across northern Gila County, many of roughly 88 small, fire-menaced communities surrounded by overgrown forests have no back door to flee a deadly wildfire.
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