WILDFIRE NEWS OF THE DAY - 052815

United States

(1) Wildfire NOTD subscriber Bruce Courtright, Chairman of the National Institute for the Elimination of Catastrophic Wildfire, sent along a study from the Association for Fire Ecology, the International Association of Wildland Fire, and the Nature Conservancy which looks at the true cost of wildfires in the US
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California

(2) An earth sciences professor at the University of Riverside said that mountainous parts of Southern California are a "disaster waiting to happen" due to an abundance of fuel in need of thinning
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