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Underdiscussed, Poorly Understood: Prescribed Fire Liability Insurance with Daniel Godwin
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Underdiscussed, Poorly Understood: Prescribed Fire Liability Insurance with Daniel Godwin
FromLife with Fire
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Length:
47 minutes
Released:
Jun 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Listen—we know that prescribed fire liability insurance is a big, scary topic. But we encourage you to check out this episode, because while liability insurance is one of the bigger challenges in getting more "good fire" on the ground, it's also one of the least understood and more infrequently talked about challenges, likely because it is such a complex topic. With that in mind, learning more about those challenges and how people are working to solve them is critical to having a full understanding of prescribed fire and its usage (or lack thereof).Thankfully, our guest this week—Daniel Godwin of the Ember Alliance—agreed to guide us on this journey into all the behind-the-scenes liability and insurance business that needs to happen before any driptorches are lit. Daniel—who is the director of programs and partnerships at the Ember Alliance in Colorado—brings an obvious passion and long-honed wit to how he talks about wildfire, and our conversation covered the gamut from how these policies affect our current fire reality, why they're impacting prescribed fire initiatives and what is being done to make it better.If you're more the reading type, Daniel just published a piece over on the Ember Alliance's blog about this same topic. You can check it out here.
Released:
Jun 30, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (61)
Is Suppressing Wildfire Actually More Of A Liability Than Prescribed Burning? With Will Harling: In this episode we spoke with Will Harling about his work with the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council, as well as his experiences of growing up in Northern California on the banks of the Salmon and Klamath Rivers. Will had some fantastic insights on how prescribed fires are burdened with immense liability, restrictions and permitting, while wildfires are not treated the same—despite that modern wildfires are more severe because of human behaviors like full suppression firefighting and climate change. Will argues that modern wildfires are no longer an act of God, and that things like managing wildfires for prescriptive purposes could be a good step towards meeting forest management objectives. For more information on the Mid-Klamath Watershed Council—which Will is the executive director of—check out their website: http://www.mkwc.org/ by Life with Fire