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Type: Essay
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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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Dec 19, 2019
The long nights of December (in the northern hemisphere at least) lend themselves to reflection and contemplation. This past weekend, I found myself flipping through my… Read More
Topic: Collaboration
Type: Essay
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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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Aug 08, 2019
What the Silver Tsunami Means for FAC and Why You Need to Partner with Assisted Living Facilities
BY: Allison JolleyThere are no children on the list of dead from the Camp Fire. No teenagers or even young adults have been identified as victims of the disaster. The 46 named victims so far… Read More
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Jun 20, 2019
I often hear that community collaboration or collaborative conservation involve wicked problems. Ever wonder what that really means? In the Northeast, wicked is used as… Read More
Topic: Collaboration
Type: Essay
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May 16, 2019
Last October, I was visiting my mother, brother (Rick), and sister-in-law (Joanne), in Paradise, California. My mother, at the age of 98, had transitioned out of her home and… Read More
Topic: Evacuation outreach/planning Wildfire
Type: Essay
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Mar 07, 2019
Stop Focusing on Ignitions and Start Investing in a Prescribed Fire Workforce
BY: Jeremy Bailey , The Nature ConservancyThe way a fire burns isn’t always dictated by how it starts. Forests and grasslands don’t burn at extreme intensities, destroy homes, kill people, and denude entire… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
Type: Essay
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Nov 08, 2018
Views of the Carr Fire: Journal Entries from Trinity County, California
BY: Michelle Medley-Daniel, Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, Watershed Research and Training CenterJuly 20, 2018 I picked you up from the Redding airport on a cloudless Friday afternoon. You remarked on the hot wind. “They’re sculptures. Twisted limbs reaching… Read More
Topic: Evacuation outreach/planning Wildfire
Type: Essay
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Sep 13, 2018
Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes
BY: Frank Kanawha Lake, Ph.D., USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research StationAcross North America, many communities seek to live more safely with wildland fire; some call that working to become a fire adapted community. Many American Indian tribes were… Read More
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Jul 19, 2018
Growing up, my family piled into our FJ55 Toyota Landcruiser for “safaris.” We drove to the forest, into the Blue Mountains, which are tucked in northeast Oregon. We drove… Read More