Firescaping Your Home

A Manual for Readiness in Wildfire Country

Adrienne Edwards, Rachel Schleiger

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Timber Press
03 August 2023

Gardening; Garden design & planning

Wildfires are burning over longer seasons and more intensely than ever before, and everyone living in a wildland-urban interface or wildland-adjacent area should take precautionary steps to mitigate the risk of property damage. In Firescaping Your Home, Adrienne Edwards and Rachel Schleiger provide expert guidance and specific recommendations on how to harden your home against fire and create defensible space that is lush and attractive. They also provide in-depth native plant lists of hundreds of species that have evolved to coexist with fire in the West, and show how and why including these on your property sustains wildlife and can actually be your most powerful defence.

By: Adrienne Edwards, Rachel Schleiger
Imprint: Timber Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 240mm, Width: 184mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 740g
ISBN: 9781643261355
ISBN 10: 1643261355
Pages: 264
Publication Date: 03 August 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Adrienne Edwards, PhD, is a botanist, plant ecologist, garden designer, environmental consultant, and teacher. She began her botanical odyssey in the Southeast, spent time botanizing in the Midwest, and since 2006 has lived and worked in northern California. With over 30 years of experience teaching, doing environmental research, and consulting, plants continue to drive her passions. She is currently a faculty lecturer at California State University, Chico.Rachel Schleiger, MS, is a plant ecologist who specializes in restoration ecology. She has lived in the WUI most of her life. Her family and property survived the most deadly and destructive fire on record, the 2018 Camp Fire. Over the last 3 years she has developed curriculum to teach about wildfire, both in-person and online through Butte College. She is currently a faculty lecturer at both Butte College and California State University, Chico.

Reviews for Firescaping Your Home: A Manual for Readiness in Wildfire Country

"""Keys to wildfire protection can be found in Firescaping Your Home...In full-color pages, the authors offer a catalog of hundreds of native plant species...they also discuss how fire behaves and how to think in terms of fire-suppression zones."" --Chico Enterprise Record ""Ecologists Edwards and Schleiger debut with a solid manual on how California, Oregon, and Washington State residents can make their homes fire resistant and landscape responsibly....West Coast denizens will want to study up.""--Publishers Weekly"