by Molly Mowery | Jun 28, 2021 | News
Canada now has a national guide for wildland-urban interface (WUI) fires. Published by the National Research Council Canada, this new resource provides guidance on hazard and exposure assessment, property protection, and community resilience and emergency planning to...
by Molly Mowery | May 17, 2021 | News
Denver’s 9News takes a look at how there is no statewide guide book in place for building property in Colorado, despite the risks of wildfires. Read more about this issue and hear CWPC’s Executive Director Molly Mowery’s perspective on growth and how the state can...
by Molly Mowery | Apr 15, 2021 | News
CWPC’s Executive Director, Molly Mowery, provided this year’s Norman Williams Distinguished Lecture In Land Use Planning and Law, hosted by the Vermont Law School’s Environmental Law Center. Watch Molly’s lecture to learn more about the history of the wildland-urban...
by Molly Mowery | Mar 11, 2021 | News
Read CWPC’s recent post featured on the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network blog to learn more about how land use planning provides an important role in wildfire risk reduction....
by Molly Mowery | Feb 10, 2021 | News
CWPC released a new report, Land Use Planning Approaches in the Wildland-Urban Interface—an analysis of four western states: California, Colorado, Montana, and Washington. This report provides a synthesis of how each state’s land use planning framework addresses the...
by Molly Mowery | Jan 15, 2021 | News
Although natural hazard disclosure statements were already a legal requirement in California, recent legislation (Assembly Bill 38, 2019) now greatly expands the scope of the disclosure for properties located in a high or very high fire hazard severity zone. On or...
