Winter, Spring, Summer, Fire and Fall
Paw'd Defiance
English - June 03, 2019 21:00 - 29 minutes - 13.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsCourses Education Society & Culture college education stem art current events diversity urban city culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Wildfire season is here. During each of the past two summers a thick blanket of smoke from wildfires covered large parts of Western Washington. Thousands of wildfires in the American West and Canada burned millions of acres. UW Tacoma Assistant Professor Maureen Kennedy talks about how climate change has contributed to a prolonged fire season. She'll also talk about the role of fire in forests and how fire suppression practices that were created to protect forests lead to larger and more destructive wildfires.