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.
More wildfire mitigation success stories, this time from New Jersey, Indiana, California Utah and Washington. Credit: Yosemite National Park
Jun 27, 2019
#WildfireMitigationWorks: Six More Examples (So, 22 and Counting)
By: Allison JolleyNo one action can guarantee a favorable wildfire outcome, but there are more and more examples of… Read More
Topic: Defensible space / Firewise Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Wildfire
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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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
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Frank K. Lake, Karuk descendant, and daughter, Ada, gathering evergreen huckleberries. Frank is carrying Ada in a traditional hazel stick baby basket. Credit: Colleen Rossier, University of California — Davis
Aug 01, 2019
Managing for Socio-Ecological Resilience First: How a New Type of Indicator Enhances Wildfire Resilience Monitoring
By: Colleen Rossier, University of California — Davis, Bill Tripp, Karuk TribeWithin the Karuk Tribe, it is a cultural teaching that “you do not harvest anything without first managing habitat for it to survive and reproduce.” This is a… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Monitoring / Assessment Traditional Ecological Knowledge Wildfire
Type: Research Synthesis
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Jul 25, 2019
The Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net) staff and members talk about fire adapted communities (FAC) a lot, and we often get asked for resources to help explain… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Resilience Wildfire
Type: Tools / Resources
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When wildfire damages nonfederal land and ecological assessments are needed, who foots the bill? Photo: State and Private Lands Burned Area Emergency Response Team members examining soil damage post wildfire. Credit: Andrew Phay, Whatcom Conservation District
Jul 18, 2019
iBAER: How We Formed, Funded and Dispatched a State and Private Lands Burned Area Emergency Response Team
By: Craig Nelson, Okanogan Conservation DistrictIt’s always about money. Burned Area Emergency Response (BAER) teams, the people who assess ecological, hydrological and forest conditions after a wildfire, are not cheap.… Read More
Topic: Wildfire recovery
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Learn about the empowering and effective model of community organizing around wildfire resilience coming out of Sonoma County after the 2017 Sonoma Fires. Credit: James Gore, Sonoma County
Jul 11, 2019
Block Captains: Community Leaders Emerge in the Wake of the 2017 Sonoma Fires
By: James Gore, Sonoma CountyWe still talk about “Saturday’s problems” in Sonoma County. Saturday’s problems are the pile of two-by-fours in your backyard for that deck project, or the… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Resilience Wildfire recovery
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And why collaboration is essential to addressing them.
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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What is good fire? We in fire often tout the term, claiming that "more good fire means less bad fire." But what are we talking about when we say that? Credit: Lenya Quinn-Davidson, Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network
Jun 13, 2019
How did you find fire? Did it come to you — a wildfire in your community, a random job opportunity — or did you go to it? I like to think I was born into it. I was born at… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Local workforce capacity
Type: Research Synthesis
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An emergency management coordinator describes the opportunity for collaboration and partnerships between emergency management and wildfire resilience practitioners. Credit: Boulder County Emergency Operations Center
Jun 06, 2019
A Day in the Life with Andrew Notbohm: How Emergency Management and FAC Go Hand in Hand
By: Emily Troisi, Andrew NotbohmInterviewer’s note: During my five years working with FAC Net, I’ve discovered a passion for understanding how communities prepare for, respond to and recover from natural… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Resilience Wildfire Wildfire recovery
Type: Interview