Fire mitigation work in western US misplaced

Tuesday, June 9, 2009 - 07:00 in Earth & Climate

Only 11 percent of wildfire mitigation efforts undertaken as a result of a long-term federal fuels-reduction program to cut down catastrophic wildfire risk to communities have been undertaken near people's homes or offices in the past five years, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder...

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