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Living with Fire Forum
August 30, 2018 @ 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Over the past year, we’ve seen a lot of wildfire activity in the Gorge. The 2017 Eagle Creek fire burned over 48,000 acres of forest and damaged scores of popular recreation areas in the heart of the waterfall corridor. Already in 2018, we’ve seen several serious Gorge blazes with the Substation fire endangering countless families, farms and households in The Dalles area.
On Thursday August 30 Friends of the Columbia Gorge will present “Living with Fire” a free community forum at Columbia Center for the Arts moderated by Hood River Mayor Paul Blackburn. We will look at the progress made since the Eagle Creek fire and to look ahead to explore the policies needed to strengthen future wildfire resilience here in the Gorge.
Featured presentations include a forest ecology update, a look at community impacts of the Eagle Creek fire, and an exploration of creating fire-safe wildland-urban interfaces in the Gorge.
The evening’s activities will kick off with a tabling fair from 6 – 7 p.m. and a special screening of documentaries starting at 6:30 p.m. made by White Salmon and Hood River middle school students about the impacts of the Eagle Creek fire on the forest, trails and communities of the Gorge. The main program will run from 7 to 8:30 PM.
For more information on the speakers, the agenda and ways you can get involved visit: www.gorgefriends.org