Podcasts Government Resources Radio Managing Wildfires to Combat Climate Change, with David Wear

Managing Wildfires to Combat Climate Change, with David Wear

Published: Aug. 1, 2021, midnight

In this week\u2019s episode, host Daniel Raimi talks with David Wear, a nonresident senior fellow at Resources for the Future (RFF). As anyone knows who\u2019s recently breathed the air in the northeastern or midwestern United States, wildfires increasingly are posing risks to human health, the environment, and the climate. In a recent RFF issue brief, Wear analyzes how scaling up wildfire management in federal forests\u2014specifically, through methods of clearing the forest undergrowth, collectively called \u201cforest fuel treatments\u201d\u2014could reduce wildfires and the damage that wildfires cause. Wear discusses recent trends in wildfires, how forest fuel treatments can address this growing problem, and more.\n\nReferences and recommendations:\n\n\u201cWildfire Risk Reduction: Effects of the Draft Energy Infrastructure Act\u201d by David N. Wear; https://www.rff.org/publications/issue-briefs/wildfire-risk-reduction-effects-of-the-draft-energy-infrastructure-act/\n\n\u201cThe Ministry for the Future\u201d by Kim Stanley Robinson; https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kim-stanley-robinson/the-ministry-for-the-future/9780316300162/