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Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
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Apr 30, 2020
Last week I criticized some spatial data that equated average miles traveled with social distancing success. According to the national map, my county was doing great, and I… Read More
Topic: Climate change Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Resilience
Type: Essay
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Apr 16, 2020
How Some Communities are Adapting their FAC Work to a Virtual World: Wildfire Prep Day and Community Outreach
BY: Emily TroisiThe first Saturday in May is usually marked by neighborhood and community events that bring people together to work on their wildfire mitigation efforts. Past projects and… Read More
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Mar 12, 2020
Building Bridges Between Universities, Communities, and Fire: An Interview with Jennifer Fawcett
BY: Jennifer Fawcett , Jessica Sabine BrothersEditor’s note: We had the pleasure of connecting with Jennifer Fawcett, Extension Associate for North Carolina State University, to talk more about her role leading fire… Read More
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Feb 06, 2020
On a typical summer weekend in the late 1990s, you might have found me amid other teenagers, all lounging in the sun a few miles up the road from my house at one of our… Read More
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Jan 23, 2020
In 2018, the Forest Stewards Guild began our high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter loan program in Santa Fe. The short-term intent of the program was to support people… Read More
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Oct 17, 2019
I love words. I love flowery, superfluous words; I love pithy, intense words; I love concise language, florid language, scientific language, love language—I love language.… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
Type: Essay
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Oct 10, 2019
Building for Wildfire Summit: Understanding How Homes Burn and How to Build Better
BY: Kimiko Barrett, Ph.D.The wildland-urban interface problem is a home ignition problem, not a wildfire control problem. Extreme wildfires are inevitable but wildland-urban fire disasters don’t… Read More
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Sep 19, 2019
Risks and Rewards: Managing Wildfire for Resource Objectives in Northern New Mexico
BY: Emily Jane Davis , Zander Evans, Mike Caggiano, Heidi Huber-StearnsOn July 13th, lightning ignited the Francisquito fire on the Carson National Forest in northern New Mexico. Forest Service incident decision makers described their management… Read More
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Sep 12, 2019
Cultural Burning and TEK: How Can FAC Practitioners Leverage Indigenous Connections to Fire Without Exploiting Them?
BY: Allison Jolley“This is the thing: If you have the option to not think about or even consider history, whether you learned it right or not, or whether it even deserves consideration,… Read More
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Sep 05, 2019
I am a notorious softie. It became clear when we got our first dog 11 years ago: I am the one who defaults to empathy, and my husband, in contrast, defaults to discipline. Of… Read More