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Imagine if for every dollar we spent on wildfire suppression, we spent one on prescribed fire. Credit: Lance Cheng, USDA Forest Service shared via Flickr Creative Commons
Mar 07, 2019
Stop Focusing on Ignitions and Start Investing in a Prescribed Fire Workforce
By: Jeremy Bailey, The Nature ConservancyThe way a fire burns isn’t always dictated by how it starts. Forests and grasslands don’t burn at extreme intensities, destroy homes, kill people, and denude entire… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
Type: Essay
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Credit: Pam Wilson
Feb 25, 2019
So, you keep hearing buzz about Prep Day, but aren’t sure what to do for it in your community. (Remind me, what does Prep Day stand for? Oh, that’s right, National Wildfire… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Communications / Outreach Defensible space / Firewise
Type: Tools / Resources
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Salient lessons learned regarding how to build the next generation of wildfire practitioners. Credit: Forest Stewards Guild
Feb 21, 2019
How the Forest Stewards Guild is Building the Next Generation of Fire Practitioners: The Forest Stewards Youth Corps Fire and Fuels Program
By: Matt PiccarelloAs the igniters lined out at the top of the ridge, I could see a mix of apprehension and excitement in their eyes. Forest Stewards Youth Corps (FSYC) Fire and Fuels crew… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Local workforce capacity
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A recent facilitative leadership training focused on how to be a better listener, leverage others' interests and strengths, and adapt based on what your partners and systems need.
Feb 14, 2019
Twenty members of the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net) and Fire Learning Network (FLN) — experts in prescribed burning, ecosystem management and community… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Communications / Outreach Resilience
Type: Tools / Resources
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Each resident in your community is more than a dot on a map or a seat at a community meeting. Check out these tips on how to leverage individual residents' values, interests and strengths to enhance your work. Credit: Preston Keres, USDA
Feb 07, 2019
Over the past several months, people who work with residents on wildfire resilience have shared several striking insights. Review their ahas and ensure that your approach to… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Defensible space / Firewise Preparedness Resilience
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Learn about the EPA's app, toolkit, research and continuing education course, all of which aim to improve public health during times of wildfire smoke. Photo: Pedestrians wearing N95 masks to better tolerate the smoke from the Camp Fire. Credit: Bastian Greshake Tzovaras shared via Flickr Creative Commons
Jan 30, 2019
Wildfire Smoke Resilience Resources from the EPA
By: Alan Vette, Environmental Protection Agency, Air and Energy National Research ProgramWho is Most at Risk? As many of you know and have experienced, emissions of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) from wildfire smoke are increasingly exceeding safe levels. Smoke… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Wildfire
Type: Tools / Resources
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Jan 24, 2019
Nine Fact Sheets That Will Make Your Job Easier: NFPA Resources about Wildfire-Resilient Homes
By: Cathy Prudhomme, National Fire Protection AssociationWe often encounter an unspoken expectation from residents that folks in the wildfire resilience field have attained an all-encompassing level of expertise regarding “all… Read More
Topic: Defensible space / Firewise Ignition-resistant home construction
Type: Tools / Resources
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Editor's note: Kimberley O'Neil and John Mock have been fire adaptation leaders in their community for 15 years. This summer, their community's work was put to the test during the Ferguson Fire. Learn how their work held up. In this photo, John and Kimberley are being presented with a plaque of appreciation from Yosemite National Park's chief of fire and aviation, Kelly Martin. Credit: Yosemite National Park
Jan 17, 2019
Why the Ferguson Fire Didn’t Destroy Yosemite West: 15 Years of Wildfire Mitigation Generates a California Wildfire Success
By: John Mock, Ph.D., and Kimberley O’Neil“You have to get involved with fire,” urged a friend who survived the 1991 Tunnel (Oakland Hills) Fire. That sage advice came shortly after we bought our house in Yosemite… Read More
Topic: Defensible space / Firewise Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Wildfire
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A story of broken trust and a forest in need along the Klamath River. Credit: Will Harling, Mid-Klamath Watershed Council
Jan 10, 2019
We had envisioned black oak woodlands and large madrones. Douglas firs and pines dotting the landscape. South-facing slopes showered with leaf litter from black oaks, enabling… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
Type: Fantastic Failure
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Jan 03, 2019
Happy New Year! Seven Fire Adaptation Videos to Watch Before Launching into 2019.
By: Allison JolleyWelcome to 2019! Before getting to work, check out the most viewed #fireadapted videos from last… Read More
Topic: Collaboration Evacuation outreach/planning Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Planning Wildfire WUI codes & ordinances