Living with Wildfire Courses Offered

Three community-based wildfire courses will be offered in the City of San Diego this spring, at no cost. Titled Living with Wildfire: Reducing Property Risks, Habitat Losses and Costs, the courses are sponsored by the Community Forestry Board of the City of San Diego, City Council members, and the State Farm Good Neighbor Citizenship Fund, and were developed after the 2003 wildfires by the San Diego Natural History Museum, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and 30 local experts.

They will focus on “how houses ignite," attributes of ignition-resistant structures and firewise landscaping, responsible fuel/brush management and the costs of excessive vegetation reduction, quick-low-cost maintenance and retrofits to reduce property risks, community assessments and action, and more.

No registration is required. Spring 2008 dates are listed below, and classes in Districts 1, 2, 3, 6, and 8 will be held in the fall.

• Council District 4 Wednesday, April 16, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm. MALCOLM X Library, 5148 Market Street
• Council District 7 Thursday May 8, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm. Mission Valley Church of the Nazarene, 4750 Mission Gorge Place
• Council District 5 Wednesday May 14, 2008, 6:00-9:00 pm. Scripps Ranch Library, 10301 Scripps Lake Drive