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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
I’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
Aug 08, 2019
There 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
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
Within 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
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
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
It’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
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
We 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
More wildfire mitigation success stories, this time from New Jersey, Indiana, California Utah and Washington. Credit: Yosemite National Park
Jun 27, 2019
No 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
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
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
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
Interviewer’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