http://science.kqed.org/quest/2008/05/23/discuss-the-californias-fire-future-radio-report/ Explore science, nature and environment stories from Northern California and beyond with KQED’s multimedia series Thu, 24 May 2012 05:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://science.kqed.org/quest/2008/05/23/discuss-the-californias-fire-future-radio-report/#comment-11427 Meri Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:22:06 +0000 http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/05/23/discuss-the-californias-fire-future-radio-report/#comment-11427 There is a product out there that can protect homes, stop fires intheir tracks and is enviromentaly safe. It has been out there for several years and has taken for ever to get government approval (just recently). It drives me crazy that people are losing their homes and they dont have to. Someone needs to get this out their never mind the red tape! Its made by GelTech solutions. check it out http://www.fireice.com/fireice/index.php There is a product out there that can protect homes, stop fires intheir tracks and is enviromentaly safe. It has been out there for several years and has taken for ever to get government approval (just recently). It drives me crazy that people are losing their homes and they dont have to. Someone needs to get this out their never mind the red tape! Its made by GelTech solutions. check it out http://www.fireice.com/fireice/index.php

]]> http://science.kqed.org/quest/2008/05/23/discuss-the-californias-fire-future-radio-report/#comment-11426 Scott Kruse Wed, 28 May 2008 22:31:40 +0000 http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/05/23/discuss-the-californias-fire-future-radio-report/#comment-11426 100 years of fire suppression, in all ecosystems, in denial of the integral role of reoccurring fire in healthy ecosystems, is now coming due. Climate change and huge amounts of fuel loading will continue to produce hotter and larger fires - no matter how recently something burned. You can burn now or burn later, but you are going to burn. Smokey Bear is a lie and the time is overdue to apply current knowledge of ecosystems. 100 years of fire suppression, in all ecosystems, in denial of the integral role of reoccurring fire in healthy ecosystems, is now coming due. Climate change and huge amounts of fuel loading will continue to produce hotter and larger fires – no matter how recently something burned. You can burn now or burn later, but you are going to burn. Smokey Bear is a lie and the time is overdue to apply current knowledge of ecosystems.

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