The High Divide Collaborative (HDC) will be holding a workshop on February 12th & 13th at the Fairmont Hot Springs Resort in Fairmont, Montana. It's focus will be on "wildfire on the landscape and living and working in a Wildland Urban Interface, as well as legislative and policy updates, and information on new conservation tools in the High Divide." Following that Future West will be offering a workshop on How to Become a Community Catalyst: Creating Place-Based Solutions to Community Challenges in the High Divide. Here is the Future West agenda some of which is teaching civics but is more geared towards influencing those who participate towards applying pressure on local elected officials to swing decisions in favor of its land manipulation agenda.
What are the warnings in this workshop for citizens? A Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is land adjacent to forests and where people live and basically creates an open area between the two. If a home or residence is too close to the forest it is considered a high risk for fires. So wildfires are created by agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGO) with adverse forest management problems and then expect those who live near those areas must change either where they live or how they live, and even limit everyone to not even living in those areas and development. The International Wildland Urban Interface Code is used to create the regulations for these measures and is intended to supplement a jurisdiction’s building and fire codes. So international codes now become part of federal regulations imposed upon citizens. The HDC participants in WUI has grown and is laden with federal and state agencies, and NGOs. Another scare tactic to nudge everyone into joining and keeping everyone safe instead of these groups and government agencies being responsible in forest management practices. According to HDC, the WUI workshop will give a presentation on how to "protect life and property, reduce fire costs, and allow wildfire to play its natural role." So letting wildfire play its natural role yet protecting life and property. Again, another dichotomy in thinking. For those who live within the High Divide area, prepare to possibly have new codes and regulation that you will have to meet following this workshop. Attending might even be a consideration to learn what will be done that will affect the way you are allowed to live. A full list of agenda items can be found here.
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