A Modest Proposal to Address Wildfire Danger in the American West

Wildfire in Montanna, image by John McColgan

Introduction

I’ve been a California resident since January of 2010. In that relatively short time I’ve seen first-hand the effects of a changing climate on life in the San Francisco Bay Area. When I arrived in 2010, winters were still the foggy season, the Sierras regularly had a snow pack through the spring and early summer, and wildfire was…