The failure of planning to address the urban interface and intermix fire-hazard problems in the San Francisco Bay Area
Joe R. McBride A C and Jerry Kent BA Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, 145 Mulford Hall, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.
B East Bay Regional Park District, 2950 Peralta Oaks Ct, Oakland, CA 94605, USA.
C Corresponding author. Email: jrm2@berkeley.edu
International Journal of Wildland Fire 28(1) 1-3 https://doi.org/10.1071/WF18107
Submitted: 8 April 2018 Accepted: 20 November 2018 Published: 7 January 2019
Abstract
Post-fire planning following major fires in the San Francisco Bay area has identified problems of wildland fuel management and solutions to these problems; however, the failure to carry out many of the fuel management recommendations has led to increasing fire hazard for the urban interface and urban intermix zones. A proposal for a new state agency to oversee fuel management is presented.
Additional keywords: East Bay Hills, eucalyptus, 1991, Oakland fire.
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