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The fastest population growth in the West's wildland-urban interface is in areas most vulnerable to wildfires

  • Written by Krishna Rao, Ph.D. candidate in Earth System Science, Stanford University
imageHomes overlook a forest in the wildland-urban interface in Arizona.Marius von Essen

The view from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in California can be beautiful – pine forests and chaparral spill across an often rugged landscape. But as more people build homes in this area, where development gets into wild land, they’re facing some...

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