Free Web Seminar January 26th 11AM PST
Managing Fire in the Urban Wildland Interface co-author to present webinar
Carol Rice, of Wildland Resource Management will present a webinar January 26, 2012 at 11:00 PST on community planning issues that relate to fire’s inevitable visit.
To register to this free presentation, go to http://www.cafiresci.org/ wui-webinar-registration/
She will discuss appropriate land use policy, community layout, infrastructure, building requirements, and vegetation management (of both landscaping and wildland vegetation). Existing and new communities will be addressed, along with individual lot-by-lot development.
Best practices will be recommended, fallback positions offered, and tradeoffs described. Issues of sustainability will be included.
Case studies will be used to illustrate the process of planning to live with fire. Parallels to ecological adaptations to fire will be drawn.
The material will be aimed at local planners, resource managers, property owners, homeowner associations, developers, and fire authorities.
Get ready for the webinar by reading this article by Carol Rice and her co-authors, "You Too Can
Prevent Wildfires," featured in the Fall 2010 issue of AEP Environmental Monitor. Click Here to read the article
If you miss the webinar, want to review it, or recommend it to others, the content will be available at this site:
http://www.cafiresci.org/webinar-recordings/
Trail Planning Authors Busy Teaching
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As you might expect, Solano Press authors are active professionals and leaders in their fields, often making conference presentations, teaching classes, and writing journal articles. Here's what the authors of Trail Planning for California Communities are up to:
Trail book chapter author Michelle DeRobertis is teaching an online course at UC Berkeley in 2011-2012 called Bikeway Planning and Design. The class is organized into three parts:
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1) On-street design and implementation [October 25-27, 2011],
2) Planning, Policy and Liability [Winter 2012], and
3) Bicycle paths, bridge and tunnels [Spring/Summer 2012]. Chapter author Patrick Miller will be a co-instructor on the third portion of the class.
The Summer 2011 edition of the AEP’s Environmental Monitor featured a lead article, Creating Trails to Benefit Communites, by Trail Planning authors Julie Bondurant, AICP, Laura Thompson, and Judith H. Malamut, AICP.
Trail Planning for California Communities has won several awards from professional organizations, and a number of the authors have participated in conferences throughout California, including APA, AEP, ASLA and California Trails Conference.
Find out more by clicking here.
