Douglas Kent

Firescaping (eBook, ePUB)

Protecting Your Home with a Fire-Resistant Landscape

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Your guide to beautiful, fire-resistant landscaping techniques

Tens of thousands of wildfires burn across the country every year, destroying millions of acres of land. If you live in fire country, take action. Use firescaping to defend your home against wildfires-while maintaining the beauty of your garden. This unique form of landscaping design keeps your property healthy, clean, and clear. Horticultural expert Douglas Kent shares secrets, tricks, and simple instructions in the new edition of this practical, hands-on guide, recommended by AAA Homeowners Insurance.

Find out which landscapes have a high fire risk and why. Get tips on landscaping and maintenance-such as effective watering and brush-clearing techniques-that reduce a property's fire risk. Learn which plants and building materials are best for reducing damage. Discover how to make your home accessible to firefighters in the event of a wildfire. Homeowners, landscaping professionals, and community fire prevention officials will find Firescaping invaluable. If you live in an area at risk, this book can help to prepare you and give you peace of mind.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wilderness Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780899979632
• Artikelnr.: 57547793

Autorenporträt

Douglas Kent began work on Firescaping in 1992. He lived 25 miles northwest of the Tunnel fire, which had devoured 25 lives and 2,900 homes in the Berkeley/Oakland hills. Frightened and inspired, Kent's work started as a local gardening guide.

In 2005 Firescaping became a statewide guide and Kent's true education began. Since then he has toured, worked with, and spoken to fire scared communities throughout California. He has been on the front lines of many fires and has interviewed enough people that have lost their homes to know that nobody should endure such a tragedy.

Kent has 27 years of soot-filled experience in Firescaping, but that is far from his only credentials. He started gardening in 1979 and has written 6 other books, worked on hundreds of landscape projects, helped lead 4 statewide gardening campaigns, has 2 Master degrees, and has taught at California Polytechnic University, Pomona, since 2008. Besides Firescaping, Kent also specializes in resource conservation and urban harvest.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication
Acknowledgments
INTRODUCTION
* Identifying Fire Hazard Areas
* The Law and the Reality
* Protecting Yourself from Yourself
* What to Do During a Fire
FIRESCAPING
* Prioritizing Your Time
* Roads
* Structures
* Driveways
* The Zone Theory
* Slopes
* Small Properties
* Ridgetop and Understory Properties
* Plant Selection and Fire Protection
* Landscape Features
* Emergency Water Systems
MAINTENANCE
* Maintenance Priorities
* Maintenance for Zones 1 and 2
* Managing Wild Vegetation and Weeds
POSTFIRE RECOVERY: CONTROLLING EROSION
* First Aid for Fire-Scarred Landscapes
* Holding Your Hill: Long-Term Strategies
SUPPORTING YOUR COMMUNITY
* Community Obligations
* Managing a Community's Three Landscapes
FURTHER INFORMATION
* Glossary
* References and Selected Reading
* Index
* Plant Index
* About the Author