Fire mitigation work in western US misplaced, says new study led by CU-Boulder

		IMAGE: The 2007 Santiago Canyon Fire in Orange County, Calif., burned more than 28,000 acres and destroyed a dozen homes. Click here for more information.

Only 11 percent of wildfire mitigation efforts undertaken as a result of a long-term federal fuels-reduction program to cut down catastrophic wildfire risk to communities have been undertaken near people's homes or offices in the past five years, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.