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Fire summit aims to teach, raise awareness and prevent losses

Oct 5th, 2009 | By Bob Conrad | Category: Conservation, Forestry, News

Fire is a natural force, one that in recent decades has become increasingly more devastating. The Nevada Wildland-Urban Interface Fire Summit, being held today and tomorrow at the University of Nevada, is a meeting for multiple government agencies and non-governmental organizations to examine in detail the realities of fire on urban areas. Besides costly fire [...]

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Putting Nevada Wildfires in Context

Jul 17th, 2009 | By Bob Conrad | Category: Conservation, Forestry, News

[EDITOR'S NOTE: The following is reprinted from the University of Nevada's Great Basin Wildfire publication edited by Dr. Elwood Miller, Dr. Rang Narayanan and Bob Conrad.] The Great Basin is a high elevation, arid to semi-arid region with annual precipitation ranging from five inches in the most arid, lower-elevation locations to 30 inches in the [...]

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