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Wildfire Season

By Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee
August 29, 2022
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If you are a Californian, you know what is coming.

For Manhattan dwellers, it is Central Park strolls with the first nips in the air. For Michiganders, it is the leaves in every variation of red, orange, and yellow, a spell of seasonal transformation that lasts a few fleeting weeks. For most, it is the haunting smell of pumpkin spice lattes. The butternut squash soups and cozy fireplace reads.

If you are a Californian, you know it is tinder box hillsides, triple-digit days, and the sound of sirens and news anchors. 

Autumn is here, and so is wildfire season.

Things you can do to prepare for wildfires and droughts:

  1. Smokey Bear says to build fires in permitted areas only.
    Autumn is the season of golden marshmallows and gooey chocolate sandwiched between graham crackers. Camp side stories and tent snuggles. Given that a staggering 96% of wildfires are manmade in the United States, autumn is also the time to build safe campfires. Park rangers, environmental scientists, and fire departments label safe and unsafe areas to start fire rings. To avoid putting yourself, others, and the surrounding wildlife at risk, only build fires in permitted marked areas. 
  2. Listen to nature. While nature can often deceive us, Southern California Autumns rarely pretend to be anything but a red flag for wildfires and drought. With extreme dryness, soaring temperatures, and impeding Santa Ana winds, nature warns us to take caution when dealing with human-induced fires. 
  3. Acknowledge climate change. Climate change has taken a toll on California, rising temperatures and extending the dry season. The state receives less rain each year, which further threatens the water table and the reserve reservoirs. 
  4. Plant native. To restore said water table and reserve reservoirs, California residents and anybody inhabiting drought-ridden regions should landscape appropriately. Landscape architects, designers, environmentalists, and biologists implore residents to remove invasive and exotic plants to reduce water usage. Planting native enhances natural ecosystems, allowing species to pollinate and preventing soil erosion. 
  5. Act water-smart.Use efficient drip irrigation systems for watering plants and, while indoors, never leave unattended water running: turn off the faucet when you brush your teeth; be mindful of shower lengths; choose water-wise appliances. 

Increasing temperatures threaten California ecosystems, homes, and lives each year, intensifying the Autumn season and drying plant materials into highly flammable vegetation. By conserving water and acting to reduce fire threats this Autumn season, you can help prevent disaster.

 

 

 

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Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee

As an antiquarian, Rachel Du Mont-Greenlee grew up knowing she’d incorporate history into her career, studying ancient civilizations and the physical, cerebral, and social jewels they left behind. During her studies at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, where Du Mont-Greenlee earned her bachelor’s degree in City and Regional Planning, Du Mont- Greenlee realized her passion for architecture and urban forms, physical spaces that bridge cultures and enable sociality. After working several years in public and private sector urban planning, Du Mont-Greenlee returned to academia, earning her master’s degree in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London. At Goldsmiths, she wrote anthropological ethnographies including the following topics: how sense of place authenticity relays to mental experiences in restaurants, and an auto-ethnographic piece on the South Orange County suburbs that moves between architecture and people and sets an analogy between the making of homes and the making of housewives, informed by classic feminist theory. To better understand the politics of place, place authenticity, historical remembrance through spatial awareness, and architecture’s construction of sociality, she spent a year and a half researching urban trends during the coronavirus pandemic in London, England. Du Mont- Greenlee compared her social findings that society underwent gentrification of the mind amid the pandemic to the gentrification of urban places, including Shoreditch, London. In doing so, she found that anything—even longstanding architectural bastions once revered for their ingenuity could be erased or forgotten. Much like the books of old burned for their revolutionary messages. While not sculpted from brick and mortar or concrete or wood, the written word weathers time as do the architectural wonders of the world. Both are fragile, capable of crumbling in a moment, but both transcend time and remind humankind of history. Touched equally by the lives of collapsed civilizations as those breathing alongside her today, Du Mont-Greenlee believes the marvels humans create reflect the soul of humankind. These ideas inspire the non-fiction articles she writes for Coffee House Writers and her fiction manuscript Edge of Worlds.

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