FAC Net blogs include success stories, lessons learned, resources, tips and even failures related to community wildfire resilience. Please contact us if you have a story to share.
Dec 19, 2019
2019 Year In Review
By: Michelle Medley-DanielThe 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
Editor's Note: All blog entries are reviewed and edited for length and clarity by Network staff before approval for posting.
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Business Resilience: Fire Adaption on Main Street USA
Feb 20, 2020
Editor’s Note: Community efforts to increase wildfire resilience often focus on homeowner action. But what about our business community? The economic engines of our towns… Read More
Topic: Business resilience
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Feb 13, 2020
Understanding Complexity and Risk in the Wildland Fire Environment: An Interview with Travis Dotson
By: Annie Schmidt, Travis DotsonEditor’s Note: FAC Net’s Annie Schmidt had the privilege of getting to know Travis Dotson of the Wildland Fire Lessons Learned Center when she worked on the Spring Coulee… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Communications / Outreach Equity/Inclusion Wildfire
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block print of Pacific lamprey, by Lenya Quinn-Davidson
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
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Monitoring / Assessment
Type: Essay
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Text and Photo courtesy of Washington DNR.
Jan 30, 2020
Editor’s Note: Annie Schmidt is one of FAC Net’s newest staff members, returning to the FAC family after two years of planning and policy work in her home state of… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Monitoring / Assessment Planning Preparedness
Type: Interview
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Banded Peak Rx Fire, Photo courtesy of Forest Stewards Guild
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
Topic: Communications / Outreach Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Preparedness Resilience
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Background Photo Credit: Bill Trimarco
Jan 16, 2020
I’ve Got Them Non-Profit Funding Blues: Lessons Learned in Funding Wildfire Resilience in Archuleta County, CO
By: Bill Trimarco“I’ve Got Them Non-Profit Funding Blues” Sadly, that is not the title of my new hit single, but rather a state of mind many of us struggle with on a day-to-day basis.… Read More
Topic: Collaboration
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Photo credit: Amanda Newell, Cascadia Conservation District
Jan 09, 2020
Editor’s Note: There are a number of ways to engage with youth of any age about wildfire. From helping teachers with lessons in a classroom to going out in the field together,… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach
Type: Tools / Resources
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Setting Goals for 2020. Photo credit: Emily Troisi
Jan 02, 2020
When your focus is helping your community live better with fire, your work is never done. Get more accomplished in 2020 by setting achievable goals and working with your… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Defensible space / Firewise Local workforce capacity Preparedness
Type: Best Practices
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Photo Credit: Angel Larriba Aldea
Dec 12, 2019
Editor’s Note: The FAC Net Blog is coming up on its 6-year anniversary in January 2020! Since 2014, we have hosted more than 440 posts on all things FAC: from community… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach
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Fire management staff in northeastern U.S. pine forests share many common challenges. Fire practitioners from New Jersey and Long Island, New York participated in a May 2018 learning exchange sponsored by FAC Net and the Forest Stewards Guild. Photo provided by Amanda Mahaffey/Forest Stewards Guild.
Dec 05, 2019
Changing the Fire Paradigm in New Jersey: The Power of Networks and Sustained Investments
By: Wendy Fulks, Bill BrashRelatively few people outside of New Jersey have heard about the 1.1-million-acre area known as the Pine Barrens, or Pinelands, a biological gem in the southern part of the… Read More
Topic: Collaboration CWPPs Defensible space / Firewise Learning networks WUI codes & ordinances
Type: Impact Story