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.
Members of FAC Net from the Pacific Northwest during the Ripple Effects Mapping (REM) session
Oct 24, 2019
FAC Net is Changing Fire Adaptation Work: Highlights from our Evaluation
By: Michelle Medley-Daniel, Emily TroisiEditor’s note: This blog is focused on sharing stories and information about living with fire. Occasionally, we also publish content related to social-change networks:… Read More
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 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
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Network coordinators gathered in Colorado for a two-day workshop designed to reflect on and refine our networks’ strategies. From left to right: Emily Troisi (FAC Net), Ashely Juran (FAM), Anne Mottek (AZ FAC), Matt Piccarello (FAC NM), Michelle Medley-Daniel (FAC Net), Rebecca Samulski (FACO), and Hilary Lundgren (WAFAC)
Nov 21, 2019
A Day in The Life: Network Coordinators
By: Rebecca Samulski, Hilary Lundgren Anne Mottek Matt Piccarello Ashley JuranConnecting, sharing, framing. Scheduling, organizing, illuminating. Asking hard questions. Co-developing strategies. Cheerleading, amplifying, elevating. Holding space.… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Learning networks
Type: Interview
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photo credit: Watershed Research and Training Center
Nov 14, 2019
What We’re Reading: Our Favorite Fire-Related Newsletters and Blogs
By: Emily Troisi, Michelle Medley-DanielWorking to reduce incoming email? We respect that. A person could spend all day in an endless volley of emails. But among the conversations with co-workers that would have… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Learning networks
Type: Tools / Resources
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Image by Paul Kuttner, Cultural Organizing
Nov 07, 2019
We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: What is Capacity and How Do You Actually Build It?
By: Allison Jolley, Forest SchaferBy Allison Jolley, Watershed Research and Training Center with additional reflections from Forest Schafer, California Tahoe Conservancy Back in high school, I rowed. As in… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Equity/Inclusion Local workforce capacity
Type: Best Practices
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Fire worker wearing the appropriate PPE. Photo by Wendy Fulks
Oct 31, 2019
There is a sentiment in the American fire community that our words are out of sync with our needs. For 50 years we have coaxed a revolution into being ― redefined fire and… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach
Type: Best Practices
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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