E&E News: “Report Finds Southeast Forest Fire Risks Could Top Western Threats”
This article details the findings of a new paper coauthored by RFF Senior Fellow Dave Wear; as climate change worsens and populations grow, the Southeast is increasingly at risk of wildfire damage.
Wildfires spurred by the warming climate may pose some of their greatest long-term threats far away from the arid West, along the Gulf Coast, new research suggests.
The threat to the Southeast is one conclusion of a report from the Forest Service and Resources for the Future, a nonprofit research group focused on climate change and other environmental issues...
They said the report could help guide policy decisions as the federal government grapples with where to target assistance, and in what form. With its dominance of privately owned forest, for instance, the Southeast may be suited to different approaches than federal lands that dominate in the West, they said.
