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Dec 31, 2020
Twenty-twenty was a year of challenge and immense hardship for many people and organizations. It was a year that signaled the need for change and adaptation. In addition to… Read More
Dec 03, 2020
What if I told you there was a force so big it affected millions of acres for thousands of years across North America? Something that altered the landscape on a grand scale,… Read More
Aug 27, 2020
Editors’ Note: This blog features a focus on our past blog author, Will Harling. Will’s recent Firehawk Blog spoke to his work in prescribed fires and letting the land… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
Type: Essay
May 28, 2020
Editor’s note: 2020 has brought countless changes to our world. Together, we are beginning to reimagine our way of living—with wildfire, but also in every other sector.… Read More
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
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
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
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
Aug 08, 2019
There 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
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