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dc.contributor.authorJones, Christopher
dc.contributor.authorRogstad, Alix
dc.contributor.authorCampbell, Stephen
dc.contributor.authorPeters, David
dc.contributor.authorAylor, Dustie
dc.contributor.authorPearlberg, Clifford
dc.contributor.authorWood, Judith
dc.contributor.authorPeacock, Wendell
dc.contributor.authorElek, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2011-10-25T19:28:37Z
dc.date.available2011-10-25T19:28:37Z
dc.date.issued2007
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/146953
dc.description20 pp.en_US
dc.descriptionArizona Firewise Communitiesen_US
dc.description.abstractThis publication is an update and adaptation of the widely distributed Living with Fire publication created by the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and Sierra Front Wildfire Cooperators in 1998. It is an interagency collaboration of the Arizona Firewise subcommittee of the Arizona Interagency Coordinating Group. It involved the combined efforts of the Arizona State Land Department, USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs, USDI Bureau of Land Management, USDI National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, USDI Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and Arizona Fire Chiefs Association. The need to revise the over seven-year old publication emerged from the subcommittees vision of building in concepts such as Firewise Zone Landscaping and Survivable Space, as well as to update the documents appearance and organization. Its purpose to provide a quality outreach tool to increase public aware concerning Firewise concepts and to encourage and facilitate the implementation of Firewise practices by communities, neighborhoods and property owners. Living with Wildfire is a twelve-page color tabloid that addresses the following topic areas important to homeowners: current situation; fire behavior and the human environment, and in various Arizona vegetation types; detailed recommendations for creating survivable space, including a checklist and landscape management zones; frequently asked questions; and emergency and evacuation guidelines. The tabloid is to be printed in bulk by federal partners and made widely available throughout the state over the next several years.
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.publisherCollege of Agriculture and Life Sciences, University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesUniversity of Arizona Cooperative Extension Publication AZ1416en_US
dc.subjectwildfireen_US
dc.subjectfirewiseen_US
dc.subjectfire educationen_US
dc.subjectdefensibleen_US
dc.subjectsurvivableen_US
dc.subjectspaceen_US
dc.subjectzone landscapingen_US
dc.subjectemergencyen_US
dc.subjectevacuationen_US
dc.subjecthomeowneren_US
dc.subjectbehavioren_US
dc.subjectvegetationen_US
dc.subjecttypeen_US
dc.titleLiving with Wildfire: Homeowners' Firewise Guide for Arizonaen_US
dc.typetext
dc.typePamphlet
dc.contributor.departmentNatural Resources & the Environment, School ofen_US
dc.identifier.calsAZ1416-2007
refterms.dateFOA2018-08-15T08:49:28Z
html.description.abstractThis publication is an update and adaptation of the widely distributed Living with Fire publication created by the University of Nevada Cooperative Extension and Sierra Front Wildfire Cooperators in 1998. It is an interagency collaboration of the Arizona Firewise subcommittee of the Arizona Interagency Coordinating Group. It involved the combined efforts of the Arizona State Land Department, USDI Bureau of Indian Affairs, USDI Bureau of Land Management, USDI National Park Service, USDA Forest Service, USDI Fish and Wildlife Service, USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, University of Arizona Cooperative Extension and Arizona Fire Chiefs Association. The need to revise the over seven-year old publication emerged from the subcommittees vision of building in concepts such as Firewise Zone Landscaping and Survivable Space, as well as to update the documents appearance and organization. Its purpose to provide a quality outreach tool to increase public aware concerning Firewise concepts and to encourage and facilitate the implementation of Firewise practices by communities, neighborhoods and property owners. Living with Wildfire is a twelve-page color tabloid that addresses the following topic areas important to homeowners: current situation; fire behavior and the human environment, and in various Arizona vegetation types; detailed recommendations for creating survivable space, including a checklist and landscape management zones; frequently asked questions; and emergency and evacuation guidelines. The tabloid is to be printed in bulk by federal partners and made widely available throughout the state over the next several years.


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