BurnBot may be just the solution they're looking for. It promises to increase the scale and pace of fieldwork, reducing fuel for destructive wildfires.
Even before the Caldor Fire in Northern California in 2021, the Tahoe Fund has been investing in startups hoping to improve forest health .'As a philanthropy, our sweet spot is let's bring that innovation to the agencies that might not be able to take the same risks that we can, so that the agencies can see it in action. We can kind of de-risk it for them in hopes that they adopt it more widely,' Caitlin Meyer, chief program officer for the Tahoe Fund, said.
'If it can take boots off the ground and guys in dangerous positions and put a machine out there that can do that work at a larger pace, then that's something I'm interested in,' said Bob Counts, Cal Fire assistant chief for the Nevada, Yuba, and Placer Unit. 'We've made strides today in meeting some of the company, and we'll pass along that information to our wildfire technology group, you know, see if we can implement them into the future plans.
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