Kingston mulls Bard recommendation for total burn ban when there’s high-fire risk

Kingston mulls Bard recommendation for total burn ban when there’s high-fire risk

KINGSTON, N.Y. — City lawmakers are considering recommendations by the Bard Center for Environmental Sciences and Humanities to enact a total burn ban during “high-fire risk declarations” to help protect the city from destructive wildfires like those that have devastated communities worldwide. Eli Duecker, the director of the Bard Center for the Environment, shared the center’s recommendation for a temporary ban on all outdoor fires when the sta…