Firewise Landscaping and Construction

Firewise Landscaping for Utah (click here for ordering info)
USU Extension Forestry has produced a new 34 page full-color booklet on firewise landscaping and firewise plants. Learn how to protect your wildland-urban interface home with an appropriately designed and maintained landscape. Click here for the free pdf version.

You Can Save Your Home from a Wildfire
Learn the lessons of the Los Alamos, New Mexico fires of 1998. Many people needlessly lost their homes as a result of a lack of simple maintenance. There is no reason for their losses to be repeated in Utah!

Firewise Landscaping: the Basics
This article covers 11 important points that can help you design and manage your landscape to create defensible space in case a fire comes.

Firewise Plants
This presentation was presented at a Fire Education Conference in Park City in May 2002. It highlights information and plants described in the USU Extension fact sheet Firewise Plants for Utah Landscapes, and includes color pictures of the plants described.

Fire in Utah's Wildland/Urban Interface
This presentation was written by Mike Kuhns and presented at the Moab Face Workshop Series in April 2002 in Moab, Utah.