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.
POD workshop participants digitizing POD control lines using maps generated with potential for control analysis. Photo credit: Mike Caggiano
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
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Monitoring / Assessment Wildfire risk assessment
Type: Research Synthesis
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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Photo by Lenya Quinn-Davidson
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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Dr. Jack Cohen presenting on the role of local conditions and characteristics in home ignitability. Photo credit: Headwaters Economics, 2019
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
Topic: Defensible space / Firewise Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire WUI codes & ordinances
Type: Best Practices
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Attendees of the 2019 RVCC Annual Meeting in Santa Fe, NM. Photo credit: Sylvan Pritchett
Oct 03, 2019
Bringing the Voices of Collaborative Conservation to Decision Makers in D.C.: An Interview with Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
By: Karen Hardigg, Tyson Bertone-RiggsEditor’s Note: Policy barriers play a substantial part in our everyday decision making processes and have significant implications for fire adaptation and community… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Learning networks
Type: Interview
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background photo credit: Mid-Willamette Valley Fire School by BLM Oregon
Sep 26, 2019
Editor’s note: FAC Net is committed to having conversations around inequity in community resilience and wildfire adaptation. This blog is part of a series of introductory… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Equity/Inclusion
Type: Best Practices
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Credit: Colleen Rossier, University of California — Davis
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
Topic: Collaboration Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Traditional Ecological Knowledge Watershed protection / management Wildfire
Type: Research Synthesis
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Local volunteer fire department member gaining experience on a prescribed burn in Humboldt County, CA. Photo by Lenya Quinn-Davidson
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
Topic: Collaboration Equity/Inclusion Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
Type: Best Practices
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See if your local school or library carries any wildland fire education books — and if not, consider asking if they could order a shelf copy of some of these back-to-school recommendations!
Aug 29, 2019
Back to School: A Wildland Fire Book List for Young Readers and Educators
By: Rebecca Samulski, Becca SamulskiPractitioners of fire adapted communities often get tasked with leading field trips, lessons and presentations with local schools and youth groups. We usually see an uptick… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Preparedness
Type: Tools / Resources
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Taking part in a prescribed burn was a key part of the Hotspots Fire Project workshop. Photo credit: Kate McShea
Aug 22, 2019
What Does Community-led Recovery Look Like? A Case Study from the Carwoola 2017 Bush Fire
By: Zoe D'Arcy, New South Wales State Emergency Service (Australia)One sunny day in February 2017, I got to see first-hand what impact a disaster could have on people when my own small community of Carwoola in New South Wales experienced a… Read More
Topic: Learning networks Preparedness Resilience Wildfire recovery
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As wildfire behavior changes, our understanding of what fuel treatments can and can't do is also evolving. A fire ecologist shares his takeaways from the Carr Fire. Credit: Eamon Engber, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area
Aug 15, 2019
Fuels Treatments Aren’t a Guarantee, but They Still Matter: Gaining Perspective from the Carr Fire
By: Eamon Engber, Klamath Network Parks and Six Rivers National ForestI’m not sure our messaging surrounding fuel management is clear, consistent or rooted in the best available science and current fire regimes. During the first two days… Read More
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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
Topic: Communications / Outreach Evacuation outreach/planning Wildfire
Type: Essay