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Are you maximizing local residents' roles in fire adaptation? Read this blog to learn about a volunteer empowerment approach that works: the Neighborhood Ambassador program. Photo: Neighborhood ambassadors for Cedar Mesa Ranches after a community chipping day, which was planned in recognition of National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day, 2018. Credit: Amanda Brenner-Cannon, Wildfire Adapted Partnership
Nov 01, 2018
Enhancing Fire Adaptation Through Active Volunteers: The Neighborhood Ambassador Approach
By: Ashley Downing, Wildfire Adapted PartnershipDespite burning over 50,000 acres, the 416 Fire did exactly what the Falls Creek Ranch community wanted it to. The fire burned right up to the community boundary and because… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Defensible space / Firewise Local workforce capacity
Type: Tools / Resources
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Thanks to the fuels treatments done by the Colorado State Forest Service and its key partners, fire response crews were able to contain the Golf Course Fire before it entered nearby communities. Keep reading for 15 more examples of wildfire mitigation efforts that worked. Credit: Grand County Sheriff’s Office
Oct 25, 2018
We recently published a story highlighting six examples of wildfire mitigation paying off in 2018. You asked for more, and I’m happy to report that just for 2017 and 2018… Read More
Topic: Defensible space / Firewise Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Ignition-resistant home construction
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A collaborative group discusses a prescribed fire and its effects as smoke still lingers. Credit: Ed Keith, Deschutes County
Oct 18, 2018
How Do You Want Your Smoke? Why Oregon Is Exploring a New Smoke Management Plan
By: Ed Keith, Deschutes CountyIn Oregon, prescribed fire smoke is regulated by the Oregon Smoke Management Plan, which is overseen by the Oregon Department of Forestry (ODF) and the Department of… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
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True or false: Poison oak produces poisonous smoke when burned? Lenya Quinn-Davidson takes a dive into the research on a quest to find out. Credit: David Dennis shared via Flickr Creative Commons
Oct 11, 2018
I came out of last week looking like someone who’d just been released from a hard labor camp. My hands were covered in blisters from digging soil pits for a research… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire
Type: Research Synthesis
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Wildfire smoke increasingly travels thousands of miles, sometimes across the entire country. Get a rundown of the latest wildfire-smoke science, opportunities to mitigate it, and tools to communicate about it in the blog post below. Photo: Smoke from 2017 California wildfires spanning the U.S. Credit: NASA
Oct 04, 2018
How Healthier Forests Can Mean Less Smoke: The Science, Tools and Strategies Related to Smoke Management in Fire-Adapted Forests
By: Dr. Leland Tarnay, USDA Forest Service Region 5 Remote Sensing LabThe Air Quality Problem With disconcerting regularity, smoke from large wildfires keeps saturating the skies of California (and other states) for days on end, over vast… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Wildfire
Type: Research Synthesis
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Replacing a home that was lost during the Carlton Complex of 2014. This family lost their primary home and business, and understanding their unique needs was essential to their holistic recovery. Credit: Okanogan County Long Term Recovery Group
Sep 27, 2018
Equity in Action: Long-Term Disaster Recovery in North-Central Washington
By: Maria Estrada, The Nature Conservancy“What is equity?” The answer to that question is both elusive and central when working toward fire adaptation. When I was in Washington State last May, I met the… Read More
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Credit: Esmé Cadiente, Forest Stewards Guilld
Sep 20, 2018
Don’t Reinvent the Prescribed Fire Wheel: Must-Have Liability, Timing and Outreach Resources
By: Allison JolleyAre you planning any controlled burns this fall? (Or winter? Or spring?) This blog offers a collection of resources… Read More
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Click on the image above to read Frank Kanawha Lake, Ph.D.'s blog, Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes. Photo: Lois Conner Bohna with acorns on a tree tended by her grandmother, Lilly Harris, at a ranch near North Fork, California. Credit: Frank Kanawha Lake, USDA Forest Service
Sep 13, 2018
Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes
By: Frank Kanawha Lake, Ph.D., USDA Forest Service’s Pacific Southwest Research StationAcross North America, many communities seek to live more safely with wildland fire; some call that working to become a fire adapted community. Many American Indian tribes were… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment / Prescribed fire Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Type: Essay
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Imil Ferrara, who has participated in a Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX), and Chris Baldo trade stories about using prescribed fire as Jana Carp listens. Credit: Mary Huffman, The Nature Conservancy
Sep 06, 2018
“We need to work together if we are going to meet the threat of wildfire in our community.” I heard this said time and time again — with either conviction or reluctance… Read More
Topic: Communications / Outreach Resilience Wildfire
Type: Tools / Resources
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Looking at this picture, you probably wouldn’t guess that a lack of supply is what ultimately led to the failure of the Watershed Research and Training Center's recent firewood business endeavor. Find out what we learned from this wood-products venture and where we're headed next. Credit: Marcus Kauffman, Oregon Department of Forestry
Aug 30, 2018
Fantastic Failure: Biomass Utilization and Surviving the Pursuit of a Bright Idea
By: Nick Goulette, Watershed Research and Training CenterCreating market demand and useful products from the woody material that we remove as a byproduct of community wildfire protection work seems like an obvious and elegant… Read More
Topic: Fuels treatment economics Local workforce capacity
Type: Fantastic Failure