Do I still believe in landscaping for fire prevention?
A retrospective look at the benefits of landscaping for fire prevention, despite the fact that the author's home was burned to the ground during a wild fire.
This one-page factsheet offers a retrospective look at the relative success of landscaping for fire prevention despite the author's home being burned to the ground during a wildfire. The author still advocates designing one's home and landscape so as to minimize fire damage, and the ways his home landscape still offered some help to firefighters and helped retard the fire's expansion are discussed. 8.5" x 11"
Authors
R. Mahoney
R. Mahoney
Date Published
2003
2003
Publisher
University of Idaho Extension
Moscow, ID
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Publication Number
Fire No. 8
Fire No. 8
Resource Format
Pamphlet/Flyer/Factsheet
Pamphlet/Flyer/Factsheet
Sub-Topics
Fire, Planning, Safety Issues, Landscape Design
Fire, Planning, Safety Issues, Landscape Design
State(s)/Region(s)
Rocky Mountain
Rocky Mountain
Keywords
Firewise, Firewise
Firewise, Firewise
Libraries
MW: F-PAMP-ID-03-001
MW: F-PAMP-ID-03-001
Indexed By
MWCU&CF
MWCU&CF
