{"id":15755,"date":"2016-10-10T05:22:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-10T05:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.golive.clarku.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/10\/christian-science-monitor-as-californias-wildfire-risks-grow-are-home-builders-getting-the-message\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T05:44:24","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T09:44:24","slug":"christian-science-monitor-as-californias-wildfire-risks-grow-are-home-builders-getting-the-message","status":"publish","type":"story","link":"https:\/\/www.clarku.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/10\/christian-science-monitor-as-californias-wildfire-risks-grow-are-home-builders-getting-the-message\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Science Monitor: &#8216;As California&#8217;s wildfire risks grow, are home builders getting the message?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<html><body><p>In a&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.csmonitor.com\/USA\/2016\/0927\/As-California-s-wildfire-risks-grow-are-home-builders-getting-the-message\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recent article<\/a>, the Christian Science Monitor incorporated a quote from a 2013 interview with Dominik Kulakowski, associate professor of geography at Clark University<strong>.<\/strong>&nbsp;Here, an expert from the recent article:\r\n\r\n&ldquo;With a historic drought and high temperatures, California is seeing longer and deadlier wildfire seasons &mdash; but the threat has not deterred developers from rebuilding homes in wilderness areas most prone to fires. &hellip;\r\n\r\n&#8221; &lsquo;We are increasingly building our homes &#8230; in fire-prone ecosystems,&rsquo; Dominik Kulakowski, an associate professor of geography at Clark University in Worcester, Mass., told The Christian Science Monitor in 2013. 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