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  The eastern and northern edges of the Watershed are major wildland/urban interfaces. These areas are home to many private landowners. John and Bani Kurth, owners of Kwanaci Lodge, a bed and breakfast establishment near Lake George, sit surveying their land. While Hayman was burning, the Kurths were evacuated. Like most owners, they worried what they would find when they returned. But the Kurths were luckier than some, when they came home, their house was still standing, and the fire did little damage to their land. This was in part because they had been applying defensible space techniques on their land, like thinning the number of trees, and clearing undergrowth and low-lying branches. When the fire hit the back of their land, it dropped out of the trees and burned along the ground at low-intensity. View the Cubical Panorama of Kwanaci Lodge (1.7 Mb) Panorama taken July 2002 Also see; |
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