Fire and Forest: Buy local firewood — keep pests off the Hill …
Around the house we can always find pests that are more of a nuisance in our everyday lives than they are damaging — irritants...
Fire & Forest: Fire abatement protects your home …
I am asking board members to write on various topics for this column. Doris Lombard has timely information and thoughts on maintaining defensible space.
Here...
Fire And Forest: Fire abatement helps all …
By Chris Kramer
MCFSC President
With the recent election of officers on the Mountain Communities Fire Safe Council, I’d like to introduce myself as the new...
Fire and Forest: MCFSC Changes …
My wife and I will be moving off the Hill this summer to live closer to family, so change is in order.
At our...
Fire and Forest: Hot-button issues & the code committee …
Readers of the Town Crier will know there have been letters critical of the new code committee and of the role the Mountain Communities...
Fire and Forest: Many thanks to boards …
Recently, as a board was wrapping up business for the year, I felt a deep appreciation for everyone at the table. They are all...
Fire and Forest: GSOB growth and response …
A meeting last week of interested parties on the Goldspotted oak borer provides a good moment to take stock of where we are in...
Fire and Forest: Learning from public health …
I have often been struck by the similarities between fire protection — prevention and suppression — and public health.
Both fields are tasked with preventing...
Fire and Forest: More safe roofs, promising new code …
Seventy-six is an attractive number, especially in the United States. It brings up the Declaration of Independence (1776), or perhaps the 76 trombones Professor...
Fire and Forest: Fire Adapted Communities …
A fairly new term in wildfire policy is “Fire Adapted Communities.” Important fire organizations have placed a new emphasis on this concept over the...