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Expert Perspectives

UCLA Sustainability Defensible Space Group Library

Expert Letters to CA Board of Forestry

Dr Travis Longcore, et al. Public Comments (2025)

Travis Longcore, Ph.D., Adjunct Professor, UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Science Director, The Urban Wildlands Group

https://c3485f4c-a332-43b2-9d06-adbcac8805c1.usrfiles.com/ugd/c3485f_54128861430f48b5bec49f53186b1336.pdf

Letters from cities, elected officials, NGOs and experts

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/19sa7aPzROqPf03kMiMZOKuOusEb2O5uu?usp=drive_link

UCLA Sustainable LA Grand Challenge

"Policymaking Under Uncertainty: Deciding Where to Implement Fire Mitigation Strategies"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oaf4LhZ59s.

Recordings of the Full Symposium on Urban Firestorms

https://sustainablela.ucla.edu/slagc-wildfire-research-symposium-urban-firestorms-risk-and-resilience

Expert Recordings

Dr Jack Cohen - Research Physical Scientist, US Forest Service Research, retired

--creator of the Home Ignition Zone (HIZ)

"So I guess what I'm getting at here is the continued emphasis and obsession with vegetation is not working for us.It's not nearly as much of the problem, as the characteristics of the structure, and its very immediate surroundings, that doesn't involve green canopies.It involves perhaps dead material that's dropped from the canopy that's produced by the vegetation, but in and of itself, is not a participant.In that, that fire."

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VLrSY_ut8WyOJLgNo0RCgILNQpgIwQ3P/view?usp=sharing

Dr Anne Cope - Chief Engineer, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety

"So when we go out to a public location and we can highlight a few differences, um we do not consider these demonstrations of what might take place to be a scientific experiment. We're trying to get some information and some public outreach out about what pieces are important."

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1t7hrtQg7VrGPBk04K5dAc_AcLY2X8Rml/view?usp=sharing