Current Issue: Summer 2007
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Features
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25 Pack Athletics Reaches Maturity Pack athletics: The future is now |
4-H expands reach
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Intelligence hits new heights at academy |
Departments
Nevadarama - The Wonder of Walker
6 NevadaScope - Carson City ranks as top artists’ haven
7 Tonight's Homework - What’s your favorite tailgate menu?
8 Boom - Target2010: Northern Nevada
10 What It Feels Like To…Golf without your clubs
11 Body Owner’s Manual – Too much sun isn’t fun
12 Interview: Keeping Memory Alive – Hope for Alzheimer’s patients
14 Nature & Environment – Catching the ‘big one’
17 Nature & Environment – Tahoe Rim Trail
18 What I’ve Learned - Dick Trachok ’49 ’54M.A.
20 Refresher Course - Global Warming
21 Ten Things You Didn’t Know About…Nevada weather
22 Nevada Know-How – Living with fire
- University News, 40
- On Philanthropy, 46
- From the Alumni Council President, 48
- Class Chat, 48
- Five Questions With Masami Raker Yuki ’00Ph.D., 51
- Remembering Friends, 61
62 Tell Me How Nevada Was - Hunting mustangs
64 What I’ve Done With My Life - Warren Lerude ’61
On the Cover
One of Nevada’s most pressing natural resource issues is the threat of wildfire to human life and property. Much of Nevada is considered a high fire-hazard environment, possessing all the ingredients necessary to support intense and uncontrollable wildfires. Within this high hazard environment are individual homes, subdivisions and entire communities. Unfortunately, many Nevada homeowners are not prepared to survive a wildfire. The Living With Fire program was developed to inform Nevadans how they can live safer in high fire-hazard environments. Living With Fire is not a wildfire prevention program. Despite the best efforts of firefighting agencies, much of Nevada’s wildlands will continue to burn. The purpose of Living With Fire is to teach people how to safely coexist with wildfire when it does occur.
The Living With Fire program began in 1997, when Ed Smith of University of Nevada Cooperative Extension, the University’s Paul Tueller and Fire Chief Loren Enstaad of the Sierra Front Wildfire Cooperators applied for and received a Nevada Agricultural Experiment Station/Nevada Cooperative Extension Joint Program grant. Together with Nevada’s firefighting organizations, they developed a set of consistent wildfire threat reduction recommendations for Nevadans. These are the foundation of the Living With Fire educational materials and programs. Since then, the program has continued to grow.
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