THE LOS ANGELES FIRES WERE PREVENTABLE—Kelly Walker details how the California wildfires result from the land’s mismanagement. “A lot of work has gone undone!”
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Kelly John Walker, M.S. worked in urban-interface wildfire prevention for over a decade and was awarded the Bronze Smokey Bear award by the U.S. Forest Service. He wrote the nation’s first Project Wildfire Urban Interface Wildfire Protection Plan, which the USFS used as a national model. Walker managed forestry and environmental concerns for one of the most high-dollar housing and resort communities on the West Coast, totaling over 2,000 acres, for seven years. He was on numerous boards including Project Wildfire, Deschutes Soil & Water Conservation District, Upper Deschutes Watershed Council, and the Deschutes Noxious Weed Advisory Board. He held two terms in an elected office as Vice Chair of the Deschutes SWCD. Walker trained on a graduate fellowship with the DOD at New Mexico State University, and worked for the Natural Resources Conservation Service.