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Veterans Becoming Firefighters

I found this story on the US Dept of Agriculture (USDA) Forest Service’s Southern Research Station website. David Carrera, USFS firefighter on the Angeles National Forest, served as a Marine Corps staff sergeant 1998-2006. Ted Willis, a Southern Research Station program manager based at Florida A&M University in Tallahassee, wants USDA Forest Service managers aroundContinue reading “Veterans Becoming Firefighters”

Controlling, Preventing, Wildfire in California and Other Pipedreams

I listened to the 27 October podcast of KCRW’s Left, Right, and Center as I do every week. They discussed the recent fires in California (and other political wonkish stuff). In the program, the moderator Matt Miller (holding down the center) wondered whether preparations were adequate and whether money could have been better spent (ratherContinue reading “Controlling, Preventing, Wildfire in California and Other Pipedreams”