Byline Mendocino: Colin Atagi and Justine Frederiksen

August 27, 2021-- Alicia Bales talks with local journalists Colin Atagi of the Santa Rosa Press Democrat and Justine Frederiksen of the Ukiah Daily Journal about the week's local headlines, including the Cache Fire in Lake County and the surge in hospitalizations and deaths in Mendocino County due to the Delta variant. In the second half of the show, she talks with wildfire researcher Chad T. Hanson about how thinning and fuels reduction may not provide the protection from wildfire that people believe. His new book is Smokescreen: Debunking wildfire myths to save our forests and our climate.