https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Wh8NWgV7Kc

Facing Fire: Building Resiliency to Wildfire

Explore shifting from only fighting wildfires to working with fire to creatively manage our fire-prone landscapes. Shifting from not just fighting wildfires but working with fire to successfully manage and design our fire-prone landscapes.

Today, forest fires are common and getting more so every year. The infrastructure to limit and combat urban fires are well developed, but for those in rural North America – almost 97% of the continent, 20% of the population or 156 million people – fire is an ongoing threat without many known solutions. How did we get here? Where are we now? What can we do about it? Told in three acts, this documentary explores our ancestors’ and indigenous peoples’ relationship with fire; our modern management practices that may contribute to or reduce fire risk; and the innovations from a small and relatively unknown body of knowledge that can used to build fire resilience in the face of a growing climate of wildfires and firestorms.

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