Santa Clara County may form its first prescribed burn association pending state grant – The Mercury News

The Santa Clara County FireSafe Council is waiting on approval of a state $400,000 grant to set up a South Bay Prescribed Burn Association. Prescribed fire is the intentional and conditional use of fire on a landscape, according to a definition provided by a Stanford University report published in August on prescribed fires on the…

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German defence minister condemns Russian drone incursions over NATO countries

German Defence Minister Boris Pistorius condemned Russian drone incursions over Poland and Estonia as “dangerous” and “reckless” violations of international law Monday, warning that Moscow represents NATO’s greatest threat whilst opening a permanent logistics centre for German forces in Lithuania. “The Russian Federation is the greatest and most immediate threat to NATO and will remain…

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