This program originally aired on July 2, 2018
As this year’s fire season gets off to a roaring start we are still absorbing the impact and lessons learned from last seasons megafire in the Columbia River Gorge. On this episode of Locus Focus we look at post-fire natural recovery, the beauty and specialness of young charcoal forests, the best kept secrets of burned landscapes, the latest science on the impact of logging burned landscapes and the way that Oregonians' relationship to wildfire is evolving.
We'll talk with Ralph Bloemers with Crag Law Center, Brenna Bell with BARK and Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology (FUSEE), about the new forest emerging in the Gorge after the Eagle Creek fire and the lessons they show about the role that fire plays in shaping healthy forest. We’ll contrast that vision with the primary cultural norms about fire, the symbology of Smokey the Bear and Bambi and how our relationship with fire has evolved (or not) over time.
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