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Created by the Center for Urban Forest Research, a branch of the United States Department of Agriculture's Forest Service, FireWise allows users to place a virtual model of their home on a plot of land - complete with trees, vegetation, pavement and a swimming pool - and see how their landscaping effects fire danger. In a study assessing Sacramento's bolstered tree cover, Greg McPherson of the Western Center for Urban Forest Research found that the region's urban forest removes more than 200,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere each year, saving taxpayers as much as $3 million annually in pollution mitigation costs. UC Riverside and the Center for Urban Forest Research WHY: The workshop will demonstrate how communities, planners, developers, and other professionals involved in the planting and maintenance of urban landscapes can best protect homes and businesses from firestorms like those that devastated parts of Southern California in 2003. |
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