Editor’s Note: FAC Net staff would like to acknowledge the many people and their communities experiencing losses and severe wildfire and smoke impacts. We will continue to… Read More

Topic: Collaboration Wildfire

Type: Research Synthesis

Author’s note: I am extremely grateful to Dr. Sarah Ray, and to all of the book club participants, for sharing their time, attention and insights. The opportunity to learn… Read More

Topic: Climate change Equity/Inclusion Meetings / Events Resilience

Type: Meeting / Event Tools / Resources

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

Editor’s Note:  FAC Net’s Annie Schmidt had the opportunity to interview Carrie Berger, Fire Program Manager for the new Forestry & Natural Resources Extension Fire… Read More

Topic: Communications / Outreach Local workforce capacity Preparedness Resilience

Type: Interview

Editor’s Note: This is the second blog in our Project Firehawk series. The title refers to a cohort of Australian birds, known as Firehawks, who carry fire in their beaks to… Read More

Topic: Collaboration Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Traditional Ecological Knowledge Watershed protection / management

Type: Firehawk Series

Editor’s Note: Standing around the hood of a truck pouring over a map has long been acknowledged as a powerful collaborative moment. But how can we take that moment and plan… Read More

Topic: Collaboration Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Planning Watershed protection / management

Type: Success Story / Lessons Learned

“School’s out, now what?” seems to be a common question for many parents these days as summer is in full-swing and physical distancing practices continue across the… Read More

Topic: Evacuation outreach/planning Planning Preparedness

Type: Tools / Resources

Author’s note: I hope that this blog finds you and your loved ones safe and relatively well. I originally wrote this post before both the COVID-19 pandemic and the uprising… Read More

Topic: Collaboration Local workforce capacity Monitoring / Assessment Wildfire risk assessment

Type: Research Synthesis

The onset of COVID-19 triggered a wave of adaptation. Wildfire practitioners across the country adjusted to working, meeting and educating remotely. Knowing that wildfires do… Read More

Topic: Learning networks Meetings / Events

Type: Best Practices Meeting / Event

This month, we connected with Susie Kocher, Forestry & Natural Resources Advisor for the University of California Cooperative Extension, to learn more about her role… Read More

Topic: Collaboration Learning networks

Type: Interview