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| A map depicting forest management history in the Bootleg Fire burn zone. |
Oregon Public Radio: The Bootleg Fire grew fast. Did forest management play a role? - "The footprint of the Bootleg Fire includes a history of commercial logging, thinning, clear cutting, prescribed fire and other intensive management practices, according to Bryant Baker, conservation director of Santa Barbara, California, nonprofit Los Padres ForestWatch. Baker says those management activities contributed to the fire’s spread." And, he's got the maps to prove it.
BBC: Stinky Bay? Local names added to map to aid coastal rescue - Ordnance Survey, the official national mapping agency of Great Britain will add local "nicknames" nationally with the goal of helping emergency response. "Ideally those in need of rescue should submit co-ordinates to make it easy for emergency services to locate them, but because not everyone has access to a device or a map, that is not always possible."