Wildfire Meets the City (In-person)
Fall (9 - 13 hours) | Available (Membership Required)
The fires that incinerated much of Los Angeles last year were no anomaly. Changing climate, forests, and settlement patterns are breaking down the barriers that usually have kept wildfires in the woods. This course will examine what is making wildfires more devastating and sometimes unstoppable, with a particular focus on one that destroyed much of a city in western Canada. It will consider the rising risk of wildfires in New England, where wildfire was once common, and what New Hampshire and Vermont are doing about it. The course will mix lectures with class discussion, including a talk by a New Hampshire state official.
Robert Taylor
Rob Taylor is a retired journalist. He covered environmental issues in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, including one fire that seared more than 600,000 acres. He previously covered environment, legal affairs, and banking in Washington for the Wall Street Journal. For a decade he has been a Hanover resident, where he lives in a house in the woods.