Item Detail
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31581
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English
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The Return of Uncertainty : Public Lands in an Increasingly Unpredictable World
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Utah Historical Quarterly
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2020
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88
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Salt Lake City, UT
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University of Illinois Press
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158-164
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"In October 2019, my campus at Sonoma State University experienced an epidemic of uncertainty. Repeating cycles of fire weather—high winds, low humidity, and warmer than usual temperature—triggered two massive public safety shutdowns of electricity across much of California, timed about two weeks apart. Both outages lasted for several days for most customers, and for some as long as a week or more. During the second shutdown, a wildfire already broken out in northern Sonoma County drove evacuations of nearly two hundred thousand residents, fearing a repeat of October 2017’s destructive Nuns and Tubbs fires or November 2018’s Camp fire that destroyed the town of Paradise in the Sierra foothills. Faculty, staff, and students from Sonoma State were among those who scrambled to get out of the potential fire’s path, ending up as farflung as San Francisco, Sacramento, Los Angeles, and Phoenix." [Author]