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Property Line - Terrain.org

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By Ben Rutherfurd, Valerie Martínez
| Terrain Verified
I wanted to dig it up, that war. Not just the fire but what made the fire. Not just the fire but the land. Wind rattles the leaves of the eucalyptus, piles of invisible, detached caps collecting amid sheaves of papery bark. A wind formed on the lee of Mount Saint Helena and shuttling toward the Pacific, picking up speed, airborne embers dropped like spores not far from my family. Not far from a dream, I watch as fires flower on an interactive map of the globe over the course of 20 years.
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On Fire: Scenes from the Climate Crisis

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By Kim Barnes, Ben Rutherfurd, C. M. Lindley
| GR2 Verified
A story about fire, especially now, is invariably a story about land. The problem before us is how to “live with” what has long been deemed an exogenous threat—to the maximization of timber yields at the start of the twentieth century, to suburban sprawl following WWII. Et cetera. The seemingly endless surplus of flammable vegetation built up over generations has, we now see all too well, transformed landscapes into unmanageable fuel loads igniting with the touch of a single firebrand.
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