Posts by category
- Category: Business/Infrastructure
- Learning Better by Learning Together: Southeastern Fire Adaptation Partners at IBHS
- Resource Round-Up: Insurance
- When it Comes to Fire Safety and Utilities, the ‘Why’ and the ‘Who’ Matter Most
- Research in Resilience: A Day in the Life of Daniel Gorham
- Business Resilience Round-Up: Fire Adaptation on Main Street, USA
- Insurance and Wildfire: An Interview with Carole Walker, Part 2
- Insurance and Wildfire: An Interview with Carole Walker, Part 1
- Using Science to Improve Wildfire Outcomes: An Interview with Steve Quarles
- Business Resilience in North Central Washington
- Small Business Planning for Wildfire
- Category: Format
- Category: Best Practices
- Designing a FAC Workshop for Engagement, Connection, and Reflection
- How Some Communities are Adapting their FAC Work to a Virtual World: Getting Creative with Workshops and Meetings
- Planning for Wildfire: Tips for creating 360-character Wireless Emergency Alert templates
- Setting Goals for 2020: A Month-by-Month Approach
- We’re Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: What is Capacity and How Do You Actually Build It?
- Avoid These Pitfalls When Writing About Wildland Fire
- Building for Wildfire Summit: Understanding How Homes Burn and How to Build Better
- Don’t be a Bystander. Be an Active Bystander!
- Finding the Sweet Spot: Rigor Versus Impact in Certified Burner Programs
- Managing for Socio-Ecological Resilience First: How a New Type of Indicator Enhances Wildfire Resilience Monitoring
- 4 Tips for Conducting Controlled Burns on Private Property from a Burn Boss
- Wildfire Insurance 101: What Practitioners and Policy Owners Need to Know
- Make Your Work Easier and More Effective: 5 Tips for Working and Learning with Partners
- Building a Wildfire Preparedness Plan: We’re All in This Thing Together
- Engaging Diverse Communities in Disaster Resilience
- Tips on Providing Prescribed Fire Training to Volunteer Fire Departments
- How Can Communities Get More Involved in Federal Fire Management?
- #MakeAKitMonday: Facilitating Emergency Preparedness
- Pile Burning Lessons Learned
- Photo Challenges and Opportunities Specific to FAC Practitioners
- Telling our FAC Stories through Photos: Tips for Practitioners
- Insights to Ensure Economic Sustainability of Mitigation Projects
- Lessons from a Successful Field Tour
- Multiagency Cooperative Burning in the WUI
- Youth Engagement in FAC Part II: Service Learning
- Can Public Outreach Increase Smoke Acceptance?
- When Help Arrives: Is Your Community Ready?
- Three Tips From Natural Hazard Professionals You Can Apply to FAC
- Cultivating Community Leaders
- Adapting Implementation Strategies
- Getting a Great Turnout (Part 2): Create an Interactive Agenda
- Getting a Great Event Turnout (Part 1): Recruiting a Keynote Speaker
- Category: Essay
- Seeing the Fish for the Fire
- A Pessimist’s Guide to Functional Hope
- Feeling the Power at WTREX
- The Long Haul: A Survivor/Practitioner’s Look at the Journey from Recovery to Mitigation to Planning
- Renewing—and Radicalizing—Our Relationship with Fire
- It’s Not Just You: Burnout and Stress in the Practitioner Community
- Stay in Your Lane, and Use Your Blinker: Navigating the Recovery Road
- In Our Element: Changing Liability Standards to Increase Use of Prescribed Fire
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Tribute to Wayne Ching & Miles Nakahara
- Happy New Year!
- If Fire Were an Animal, it Would Be a Beaver
- Of Fire and Myth: Will Harling, Bigfoot and the Power of Place
- Project Firehawk: Risk, Ripeness, and the Case for Paper Bags
- A Future with Fire: Desiring Tuesday on this Very Long Monday
- No More Prescribed Fire Barriers: Lessons from Lamprey
- 2019 Year In Review
- Changing the Fire Culture: Let’s Be Provocative
- What the Silver Tsunami Means for FAC and Why You Need to Partner with Assisted Living Facilities
- What’s All This About A Wicked Problem?
- Leaving Paradise
- Stop Focusing on Ignitions and Start Investing in a Prescribed Fire Workforce
- Views of the Carr Fire: Journal Entries from Trinity County, California
- Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes
- Redefining Environmentalism: A Day in the Life with Hilary Lundgren
- Wildfire Funding in the Omnibus Bill: What You Need to Know
- Farmer Gone FAC: A Day in the Life with Frank M. Riley Jr.
- Fire in His Blood, Pace and Scale on His Mind: A Day in the Life with Forest Schafer
- The Evolution of Leadership in Fire: Stories from Three WTREX Leaders
- Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and World Renewal Ceremonies into Fire Adaptation: An Indigenous Stewardship Model
- How Practicing “Enough” and Looking Ahead Can Support Social Innovation
- Managing New Jersey’s Forests for Resiliency: Let’s Come Together
- The Power of Private Lands
- Summer Reading: 10 Wildfire and Behavior Change Books to Choose From
- Science Tuesday: Naturally Human
- PERFACT – More than a Creative Acronym; A Project Advancing Integrated Fire Management
- Say What? Demystifying the Federal Policy Process for Local Leaders
- Fire Adaptation Strategies from Across the Nation: My Travels in 2016
- Reflections on the Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange
- When Fire Comes Close
- What TREX has Meant to One Fire Adapted Culture
- It’s Time for FAC Practitioners to Get Involved in Policy Education
- Women in Fire: Announcing October’s WTREX
- Cooperative Thinning, Burning and Training Help Create A Better Wildfire Outcome
- Burn Scars
- Snapshots of FAC-Building in Baker County, Florida
- A Trusted Translator: The Role of the Community Liaison in Creating Better Wildfire Outcomes
- My Favorite Fall Color is Fire
- A Month in the Working Life of One Fire Adapted Communities Practitioner
- Appalachian RC&D Coalition
- I See Skies of Blue…
- FAC: It’s About Being Proactive and Making Investments
- Why Did Stakeholders in Austin Develop a CWPP? Belief.
- Principles of Network Thinking
- It Takes all Three to Protect a Community
- Category: Fantastic Failure
- Fantastic Failure: Cooperative Housing as a Would-be Solution for Wildfire Disaster Recovery
- Fantastic Failure: When is a Good Idea Not a Good Idea? Lessons Learned from a Mitigation Project in Colorado
- Fantastic Failure: Why Would Residents Refuse Wildfire Mitigation Money?
- Fantastic Failure: Biomass Utilization and Surviving the Pursuit of a Bright Idea
- Fantastic Failure: False Hope and the Four Mile Canyon Fire
- Fantastic Failure! Multi-Jurisdictional NEPA: Big Dreams Take Time
- Fantastic Failure: Apple Maggots? Fire Management and Pest Management Meet
- The Four-Letter Word We Avoid at All Costs: Fail. But Should We Avoid It After All?
- Category: Firehawk Series
- Ground Truth: The Limits of Scale
- Stories Making a Difference in Fire Adaptation: FAC Net’s Firehawk Series
- California Burn Boss Program: New Path Forward or Dead-End Street?
- Project Firehawk: The WUI is Dead. Long Live the WUI.
- Project Firehawk: Decolonizing Prescribed Fire
- The Land Makes it Right: Reframing Our Ideas About When Burning is Possible
- Category: Impact Story
- Good Fire Returns to Oregon’s Willamette Valley
- The Workforce We Have: Reflections on the Practitioner Wellbeing Learning Group
- Wildfire in the Digital Age: Social Media Before, During & After the Caldor Fire
- Pile Burning on Private Land in New Mexico: A Multi-Faceted Approach
- Many Hands Make Lighter Work: Getting FAC Work Done in the Southeast with RC&Ds and AmeriCorps
- An Ambassador by Any Name Doth Broaden Wildfire Resilience
- Adjusting to Our Changing Realities
- Learning the Rules of the Game: Understanding Jeremy Bailey and the origins of TREX
- Changing the Fire Paradigm in New Jersey: The Power of Networks and Sustained Investments
- Category: Interview
- Giving Power to Communities for Fire Resilience
- Building A Global Fire Family: An Interview with Andrea Bustos and José Luis Duce Aragüés
- Fire, People, and Place: Making Oshkigin Spirit of Fire – An Interview with Gloria Erickson
- Compassion, Grieving and Being Human: The Path through Recovery with Justice – An Interview with Dr. Alessandra Jerolleman
- Bringing Fire Home: Private Woodland Owner Perspective on the Future of Fire
- A Day in the Life of Ashley Blazina
- Fire First Responders and Forest Restoration, a Vital Connection: A Day in the Life of Neil Chapman
- Taking Responsibility for What is Precious to Us: A Day in the Life of Magdalena Valderrama
- Listening to My Neighbors First: A Day in the Life of Carlie Murphy
- From the Bottom Up: Oregon’s Investment in Fire Adaptation (An Interview with Carrie Berger)
- A Day in the Life with Susie Kocher, Central Sierra Cooperative Extension
- Building Bridges Between Universities, Communities, and Fire: An Interview with Jennifer Fawcett
- Understanding Complexity and Risk in the Wildland Fire Environment: An Interview with Travis Dotson
- Connecting Practice to Policy: An Interview with Annie Schmidt
- A Day in The Life: Network Coordinators
- Bringing the Voices of Collaborative Conservation to Decision Makers in D.C.: An Interview with Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
- A Day in the Life with Andrew Notbohm: How Emergency Management and FAC Go Hand in Hand
- Florida, Prescribed Fire, the National Association of State Foresters, and Risk Mapping: Meet John Fish
- Working Together: That’s the Central-Oregon Way [A Day in the Life with Alison Green]
- Getting It Done: A Day in the Life with Austin Fire Department’s Wildfire Fuels Mitigation Crew
- The Power of the Partnership: A Day in the Life with Eytan Krasilovsky
- Building Networks Regionally and Statewide: A Day in the Life with Pam Wilson
- Getting Outreach Right, the NASF’s Priorities, and the Evolution of Wildfire Risk Mapping: An Interview with John Fish
- Does the “C” in Coordinating Actually Stand for Communicating? A Day in the Life with Kara Karboski
- What the Joint Fire Science Program Can Do for You: An Interview with Coleen Haskell
- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions! A Day in the Life with Liz Davy, District Ranger at Caribou-Targhee National Forest
- You Just Never Know What You’ll Get into this Time of Year: A Day in the Life with Karuna Greenberg
- Telling the “Good Fire” Story: Two Communities’ Prescribed Fire Outreach Efforts
- Implementing the Cohesive Strategy: An Interview with Katie Lighthall
- Networker by Day; Dad by Night; Firefighter at Heart: A Day in the Life with Porfirio Chavarria
- The Department of the Interior Integrates Its Wildfire Programs: An Interview with the DOI’s Office of Wildland Fire
- Ranch Management with a Fire Adaptation Twist: A Day in the Life with Matthew Ward
- One City’s Lifeline for All Things FAC: A Day in the Life with Alison Lerch
- Scientists and Managers Collaborate on Wildfire in the North Atlantic: An Interview with Inga La Puma
- Training Youth, Collaborating with Private Landowners and a Sense of Humor: A Day in the Life with Krys Nystrom
- The Role of the Bureau of Land Management in FAC: An Interview with Richard Parrish
- Bringing Private Landowners into the Fold: A Day in the Life with Ed Keith
- Working with Fire-Prone Communities in the Northeast: An Interview with Maureen Brooks
- Safety and Service First: A Day in the Life with Mike Davis
- Community-Focused Mitigation Programs and Resources: Interview with Chris Barth
- Urban vs. Rural: When it Comes to FAC, What’s the Difference? [Part 2]
- Urban vs. Rural: When it Comes to FAC, What’s the Difference? [Part 1]
- From Collaboration to Mitigation: A Day in the Life with Jerry McAdams
- Learning to Burn: 25 Years Managing the Albany Pine Bush
- Using Fire to Treat Privately Owned Forests in Oregon: The Firing Boss Perspective
- Using Fire to Treat Privately Owned Forests in Oregon: The Burn Boss Perspective
- An Interview with FEMA Planner Brett Holt (Part 1)
- Study Examines New Type of Wildfire Health Impact
- Don’t Forget to Listen
- Category: Meeting/Event
- Tips for Creating Consistent Messaging About Fire
- Talking Development: How One Company Built Wildfire into the Plan
- Re-Visiting Community Wildfire Protection Plans
- It’s the Relationships
- FAC: A Common Theme at the Arizona Wildland-Urban Interface Summit
- Community Wildfire Adaptation: North Georgia-Style
- Cross Boundary Fire Adaptation: Tahoe Basin Field Exchange
- Long-term Recovery Planning: Where We Started [Learning Exchange Summary]
- Scaling Out: Sharing the FAC Net with Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
- Middletown Art Center: A Community Hub for Wildfire Recovery
- Four Corners Learning Exchange Highlights Mitigation Work and Culture Change
- The Pacific Northwest FAC Learning Exchange: Video Release!
- Thinking on an “Era of Megafires”
- The Network Strategy Continues to Develop: Creating Better Fire Outcomes
- Preparing First Responders and Residents for Wildfire in North Georgia
- Social Impact Networks Are Helping Solve the World’s Complex Problems
- Science Tuesday: Rainforest or Fireforest?
- “Living with Wildfire” Art Exhibition in Ely
- FAC Net Regional Learning Exchange: Southern Oregon
- FAC Net Visits the White House to Inform National WUI Strategies
- A Different Approach To Our Wildfire Message
- 2016 Southwest Idaho Wildfire Mitigation Forum
- Wildfire Community Preparedness Day 2016
- Florida Makes Fire Look Easy: 2016 Annual Workshop Field Exchange Recap
- State FAC Network Brings Washington Communities Together
- More than Just Another Fire Truck
- Face-to-Face FAC Learning in Ashland, Oregon
- FAC Network Informing Policymakers From the Ground Up
- A Different Kind of Note-taking: Using Art to Capture Conversation
- West Fork Fire Tour
- Steak & Taters In Boise: Hosting Austin Firefighters
- Fire on the Mountain: Towns County Wildfire Community Preparedness Day
- NJ: Sharing Wildfire Lessons with the UK
- The Untapped Secret Society of Cooperative Extension
- Fire Departments Conduct FAC Exchange
- Advice for FAC Practitioners from Firewise Networking Day in Oregon
- Baker County Hosts Fire Adapted Communities Seminar
- Building Momentum for FAC in South Jersey
- Fire Science Consortium Hosts Field Tour of Slide Fire
- Tips for Hosting Your Own Community Wildfire Preparedness Day Event
- Fire Ecology Symposium Connects FAC Community through Dialogue
- A Diverse Group Gathers in New Mexico to Workshop our Wildfire Problem
- Lessons in Community Engagement from North Lake Tahoe
- Category: Quiz
- Category: Research Synthesis
- Category: Success Story/Lessons Learned
- Category: Tools/Resources
- Category: Best Practices
- Category: General FAC
- Engaging Volunteers, Empowering the Community: The FAC Neighborhood Ambassador Approach
- Happy New Year 2023!
- Opportunity Funds: Awards for FAC Work on a Local Scale
- Round 1 CWDG Primer: Preparing to Apply for Community Wildfire Defense Grants
- Introducing The Fire Adapted Communities Pathways Tool
- Resource Round-Up: Communications in Fire Management
- Expanding and Broadening Fire Management: New Partners Report
- Swimming Upstream: Finding Hope & Lessons in Wilderness Fire Management
- Strategy and Cohesion: An Interview with Sheryl Page
- Lessons Learned From Talking To Many Very Smart People about Fire
- FAC Net Blog: By The Numbers
- Summer 2021 Reading List: Gathering, Indigenous Wisdom, Climate Change & More
- Small Investments Can Have Large Impacts: Affiliate Member Opportunity Fund Recap
- New FAC Graphic, Website & More: Expanding What it Means to be Fire Adapted
- FAC Net’s First Book Club: Tools for Anxiety for Fire Adaptation Practitioners
- Category: Landscape Treatments
- My Unexpected Journey Into Fire and Leadership
- Igniting Empowerment in Wildfire Mitigation at Women’s Chainsaw Workshops
- Learning About Burning: A Photo Story from ForestHer NC
- Who’s Your Hero? Finding Community Leaders in Fire-Adapted Northeastern Minnesota
- Collaborative Restor(y)ation of Fire-Dependent Places
- Same Issues, Different Landscape: Sharing Fire Adaptation Strategies in Spain
- Farming through Wildfire Season: The Key Role of Farmers in Building Wildfire Resilience
- People, Fire and Pines: How Fire Use by the Anishinaabeg Shaped the Boundary Waters
- Bringing the Fire Adapted Communities Framework to the Central Appalachians: Many Lands, Many Hands
- Burn Small, Burn Often: Introducing Practical Prescribed Fire Into Your Community
- Equitable Workforce Development in Fire Resilience: Creating Pathways for Priority Populations
- Collaborative Implementation in Fireshed Management: Insights from the Medio Fire Learning Exchange
- Weather or Not to Burn: Steps to Organizing Learn-and-Burns
- Pathways to Prescribed Fire: Lessons from Cooperative Burn Partnerships
- Preparing for Wildfire: A Round-up of Fire Weather Resources
- Return to Paradise: Three Years After the Camp Fire
- Fire in the Shrub-Steppe: Resource Round-Up
- Research Thursday: Increasing Resilience and Carbon Storage through In-forest Biochar Production
- People. Fire. Place.
- Onward: The Native Stewards of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust & CalFire Burn Together – the Power of Collaboration
- The Forest Stewards Guild’s HEPA Filter Loan Program
- Science Thursdays: A Look Back at Thirteen of Your Favorite Stories
- Risks and Rewards: Managing Wildfire for Resource Objectives in Northern New Mexico
- Cultural Burning and TEK: How Can FAC Practitioners Leverage Indigenous Connections to Fire Without Exploiting Them?
- Fuels Treatments Aren’t a Guarantee, but They Still Matter: Gaining Perspective from the Carr Fire
- Science Thursday: Finding Good Fire
- How We’re Burning Across Boundaries: Trinity Integrated Fire Management Partnership Case Study
- Show Your Partners You’re Listening. Literally! How We’re Using Values-Based Spatial Planning to Visualize and Prioritize Collaborative Forest Restoration
- Indulging in Fire: Reflections from the Women-in-Fire Training Exchange
- Why We’re Bringing Prescribed Fire and Forest Thinning Closer to Traditionally Preserved Wildlife Habitat: We all Need It. Including the Birds.
- How the Forest Stewards Guild is Building the Next Generation of Fire Practitioners: The Forest Stewards Youth Corps Fire and Fuels Program
- Why the Ferguson Fire Didn’t Destroy Yosemite West: 15 Years of Wildfire Mitigation Generates a California Wildfire Success
- Fantastic Failure: Shared Vision, Shattered Trust
- Talking about Lighting Fire Near Recently Burned Communities: Communications at the Southern Blue Ridge TREX
- Fire Adaptation Public Policy: West Coast Updates
- How Do You Want Your Smoke? Why Oregon Is Exploring a New Smoke Management Plan
- Science Thursday: Poison Oak, Poison Smoke?
- How Healthier Forests Can Mean Less Smoke: The Science, Tools and Strategies Related to Smoke Management in Fire-Adapted Forests
- Don’t Reinvent the Prescribed Fire Wheel: Must-Have Liability, Timing and Outreach Resources
- Timber Treatments Successfully Reduce Wildfire Risk in Utah
- Evolving with Fire: Understanding Flammability and Rethinking Burn Windows [Science Thursday]
- Science Thursday: Mysterious Mistletoe
- Good Fire on the Ground in 2017: Seven Controlled Burns to Learn From
- Science Tuesday: Fire Fungus
- Communicating Amidst Controversy: The Fire Learning Trail [An Interview with Jenifer Bunty]
- Trial by Fire: Prescribed Fire Training in the Wildland-Urban Interface
- Prescribed Fire Outreach Assessment — The Verdict Is In
- Science Tuesday: Going Nuclear
- Fire and Water are Linked in New Mexico
- Fighting Central Oregon Wildfire with Fire
- Science Tuesday: Frost on Fire
- 15 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Cooperative Burning
- Science Tuesday: Toasted Ticks
- Science Tuesday: Burning the Late Bloomers
- Lend a Hand: Models for Increasing Prescribed Fire Operational Capacity
- Science Tuesday: Seeing Cowboys as Catalysts
- Advancing FAC in Hawaii: Increasing Awareness, Thinking Both Short and Long Term and … Goats?
- Pile Burning in Southwest Colorado: Complicated Circumstances Offset by Partner Support
- Science Tuesday: What’s Your State’s Prescribed Fire Liability Law?
- Winter Pile Burning Highlights: Snow Tips, Outreach and a Surprise
- Science Tuesday: Fire History is Human History
- Citizens Witness Successful Prescribed Burn in Idaho
- Need a Conversation Starter? Here’s Some Turkey/Forest/Fire Trivia!
- Veterans Work on Wildfire Mitigation: Thinning Stands, Burning Acres… Changing Lives
- Too Many Trees: Firescape Mendocino Plans for Bark Beetles
- Discussing the Future of Ponderosa Pine and the Timber Economy in Southwest Colorado
- Flagstaff “Forest Restoration and Harvesting Methods” Showcase
- Collaborative Controlled Burn in New Mexico Demonstrates Fire as an Essential Ecosystem Process
- Growing Your Local FAC Workforce: New Resource
- New Jersey Draft Legislation Benefits Ecosystems, Improves Safety
- Tahoe Basin Residents Celebrate 20 Years of Restoring Their Environment
- Prescribed Fire Road Show
- Science Tuesday: Why Mesophication Matters
- Using Fire to Treat Privately Owned Forests in Oregon: Landowners’ Perspectives
- The 4 Rights Campaign: Prescribed Fire is Right 4 the Environment
- There is Fire in Nevada’s Future!
- Enhancing Wildfire Adaptation Through Increased Spatial and Situational Awareness
- Using GIS to Analyze Slash Site Outcomes
- Becoming DWaRF
- Science Tuesday: Back to Florida!
- Northern California Prescribed Fire Council 2016 Annual Meeting Recap
- Prescribed Fire Open House Provides Learning Experience for Community
- Science Tuesday: Mastication: Not a Simple Story
- Research Aims at Reducing the Fire Backlog in the Sierra Nevada
- What We’re Learning about Current and Future Wildfire Threats to Island Park, Idaho
- Science Tuesday: Highlights From a Decade of Fire and Climate Research
- Reducing Wildfire Risk in Santa Fe Through Collaborative Burning: The Aztec Springs Pile Burning Project
- All Aboard the Christmas Tree Train!
- Wildfire Mitigation and Assistance through USDA-NRCS
- Prescribed Burning in Colorado’s Front Range: An After Action Review
- Managing Northeastern Pine Barrens for People and Nature
- Burning Together and Learning Together
- Prescribed Fire Barriers – Widespread Challenges with Regional Flavors?
- Shevlin Fire Lends a Teachable Moment for Shevlin Commons Residents
- The Challenging Economics of Treating Fuels to Build Fire Adapted Communities
- Building Mitigation Contractor Capacity in Southwest Colorado
- Central Oregon is Preparing for Fire Season
- Building Prescribed Fire Capacity in New Mexico
- Forest Guild Completes First Controlled Burn on Private Land in La Cueva, New Mexico
- A Low-Income Wildfire Risk Reduction Pilot Program in SW Colorado
- Oregon Trail: A Landscape-Scale Revegetation Project
- Building Local Capacity in Deschutes County
- Rapid City, SD Hires Veterans for Wildfire Fuel Mitigation
- 2013 W. Klamath Mountains Wildfires: A Success Story
- Five Lessons from the Wildfire Season
- Stewardship Contracting Helps Communities and Public Land Managers Treat the WUI
- Category: Networks
- Announcing the New Fire Networks Blog
- FAC Net’s 2023 Reader Survey
- The California Fire Safe Council County Coordinator Program: Building Collaborative and Resilient Networks
- How Can Practitioners Leverage Their Networks to Maximize Wildfire Risk Reduction?
- New Partner Report: Shared Responsibility for Fire Resilience
- Tools You Can Use: Toolkit Videos
- FAC Net is Changing Fire Adaptation Work: Highlights from our Evaluation
- Seeking Fire Adaptation and Community Resilience Peers? Join FAC Net!
- Facilitative Leadership: Concepts Every Wildland Fire Leader Can Use
- Fantastic Failure: Facilitation Flops in a Post-Fire World
- Superman vs. a Network? Why I’d Choose a Network Any Day: An Interview with Tiernan Doyle
- A New Perspective on Fire Management [Book Review of “Florida: A Fire Survey” by Stephen J Pyne]
- Community Magic: Community-Based Asset Mapping Establishes New Connections for Fire Adaptation
- Early Lessons from the Washington Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network
- Reframing Failure to Facilitate Change
- Insights from Connecting to Change the World
- FAC Network Looks Forward
- Category: Partnerships & Community Engagement
- Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) Round 2 Funding Opportunity Now Available
- Redefining Wildfire Social Science Research With Practitioners, Part 1
- Spreading the FAC Spark: Grassroots Success and Resident-Led Efforts in the Appalachian WUI
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice: A Practice, Not a State of Being
- Trauma-Informed Care for Community Wellbeing: The Sonoma Wildfire Mental Health Collaborative
- Putting Wildfire Plans to Use: Dusting Off That CWPP
- A Chip Off the Old Block: Our Guide to Starting a Chipping Program in Your Community
- Common Ground, Neighborhood Networks, and How Preparing for Wildfire Brings Us Together
- Fire Adaptation in Southern Appalachia: Storytelling Through Story Maps
- New Moves: Partnering with Local Real Estate Agents
- A Practice in Purpose: Using Nature Journaling Practices to Help Create Fire Adapted Communities
- Helping Our Senior Community Prepare
- Partnering for Resiliency – Outside the Box
- Outcome-based Management for Western Rangelands: Using Experience & Need to Help Manage for Fire
- What Comes First — Collaborative Mapping or Mapping Collaboration?
- Let’s Put the Cart *After* the Horse: California’s Forest and Fire Capacities Needs Assessment
- How Some Communities are Adapting their FAC Work to a Virtual World: Wildfire Prep Day and Community Outreach
- I’ve Got Them Non-Profit Funding Blues: Lessons Learned in Funding Wildfire Resilience in Archuleta County, CO
- Youth Education and Outreach: Resources and Examples from Across the Network
- What We’re Reading: Our Favorite Fire-Related Newsletters and Blogs
- Back to School: A Wildland Fire Book List for Young Readers and Educators
- What Does Community-led Recovery Look Like? A Case Study from the Carwoola 2017 Bush Fire
- Let’s Talk About Fire Adapted Communities!
- Nine Tips for Talking about Fire and FAC
- How Ashland Passed a Wildfire Ordinance (Hint: We Removed Our Ordinance Blinders)
- 14 Community Wildfire Preparedness Ideas at Your Fingertips.
- Stop Winging It with Residents: What Works, and What Doesn’t
- Nine Fact Sheets That Will Make Your Job Easier: NFPA Resources about Wildfire-Resilient Homes
- Happy New Year! Seven Fire Adaptation Videos to Watch Before Launching into 2019.
- Unsung Heroes of the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: Church Leaders and Farmers
- Equity in Action: Long-Term Disaster Recovery in North-Central Washington
- Seeking and Finding Community Capacity for Wildfire Resilience
- Your Wildfire Terminology Dictionary (Well, A Blog-Post Version of a Dictionary, at Least)
- Is Investing in Defensible Space Worth It? Six Examples Point to Yes!
- Science Thursday: An Argument for Heterogeneity, in the Kitchen Sink and in the Fields
- #Fireadapted Summer Reading: 2018
- Fire Adapted Communities on the Range: Why Rangeland Fire Protection Associations Matter
- Fantastic Failure: Big Stick, Big Mouth
- Can You Hear Me Now? Why We All Need a Refresher on “The Imagined Public”
- Six Great Wildfire Adaptation Resources in Spanish: It’s About More Than Word-for-Word Translations
- Collaborative Spatial Fire Management: Getting Ahead of Fire Using Potential Operational Delineations
- Better Work, Bigger Impact: Recent Fire Adaptation Highlights
- When Wildfire Hits the Ranch: Lessons Learned from the Thomas Fire
- 17 Ways We Grew: Community Wildfire Resilience Lessons from 2017
- Science Tuesday: Why Homes Burn (and Why I’m Reminding You)
- Raising the Bar for Firewise USA™ Sites: Oregon County Pilots a Local Firewise “Four-Star” Rating Program
- The Line Between Fire Adapted Communities and Fire Resilient Landscapes Isn’t Just Invisible; It Doesn’t Exist
- Give and Take: Building Friendships to Create Access for Fuels Reduction Projects
- Planning Pays Big Dividends: 4 Successes from the 2017 Wildfire Season
- How Salt Lake City’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan Generated Action in Less Than a Year
- Overcoming Capacity Barriers to Fuels Reduction Projects
- Facilitating Dialogue in Communities: Using the FAC Self-Assessment Tool
- Community Wildfire Resilience Workshop Gets Rave Reviews — Key Ingredients
- The ABC’s of Wildfire Terminology
- The Art and Science of Home Wildfire Evaluations
- Who’s Missing? Thinking about Wildfire Resilience through an Equity and Inclusion Lens
- Teaching Fire with Fire: A Unique Approach to Community Outreach
- Between Two Fires: Lessons Learned in Kittitas County
- Rejuvenating FAC Outreach in the Wasatch Front
- Wildfire Mitigation through Partnerships: Southwest Colorado Success Story
- So Little Time, So Much to Read: Conflict Management Blogs I Follow
- Summer Program for Teenagers Addresses Wildfire Risk in New Mexico
- Completing the (Fire) Cycle of Information Sharing
- Mock Fire Camp in Island Park Attracts Residents
- Capacity And Transformation In Social-Ecological Systems
- An Interview with National FAC Program Manager Pam Leschak
- Meeting People Where They Are: Door-to-Door FAC Outreach
- Science Tuesday: Don’t Believe Everything You Think!
- First Municipal Fire Safety Council Formed in Barnegat Township
- The Western Klamath Restoration Partnership Uses the Open Standards Process
- Moving from Firewise to FAC in North Georgia
- Institutions are Key Elements of Fire Adapted Communities
- Lessons Learned from a Successful Year of FAC Outreach
- Potlucks and Sparkplugs: Firewise Success Catches on in Upper Cow Creek
- Island Park Sustainable Fire Community Wildfire Awareness Days
- Baker County FAC Effort Welcomes New Partner
- Public Information Working Groups Create Wildfire Awareness
- Building FAC Skills: Collaborative Learning Training Program
- Integration of Cohesive Strategy Goals a Reality in California’s Klamath Mountains
- Resources for Planning and Leading Effective Meetings and Collaborative Learning Processes
- Becoming Fire Adapted: An Evolutionary Process in the Pine Barrens
- Approaching Relationships with Landowners
- Fire Adapted Communities: On the Front Lines in Ely, Minnesota
- Making Things Happen for Rural America Is What RC&D’s Do
- How Can Youth Play a Role in FAC?
- What Makes a FAC Program Worth Investing In?
- FAC Outreach: Early Lessons From the Two Bulls Fire
- Re-thinking Leadership to Create Stronger Networks
- Building Trust in Fire-Affected Communities: A Planning Guide for Managers
- Getting a Great Turnout (Part 3): coordinate an effective media strategy
- Successful Collaboration Tips from the Fire Learning Network
- What We Lack: A Great Way to Answer the Question “What is FAC?”
- Striving for a More Complete Portrayal of Wildfires
- Five Tips for Engaging Your Community in FAC
- Category: Plans/Regulations/Policy
- From One Parcel to a Whole Community: NIST’s Hazard Mitigation Methodology
- All About Policy
- Changing the Game: Using Potential Wildfire Operational Delineation (PODs) for a Better Future with Fire
- Land Use Planning: Expanding the Wildfire Risk Reduction Toolkit
- Tracking Progress: Online Interactive Project & Neighborhood Maps
- Two National Directives and One Piece of Public Policy Worth Understanding: The 2018 Farm Bill, Executive Order 13855 and DOI Secretarial Order 3372
- Using Community Base Maps to Improve the Safety and Effectiveness of Wildfire Response
- Top 5 Resources for Planning For Wildfire
- Making Lemonade from Lemons: How Intense Wildfire Seasons Yielded Utah’s New Wildfire Policy
- Crossing Lines to Promote Wildfire Awareness: Multi-State Wildfire Policy Initiative
- Key Principles Behind Utah’s New Wildfire Policy: Engaging Municipalities and Distributing Risk
- Let’s Go Golfing: Utilizing Community Amenities in Wildfire Risk Reduction Efforts
- Science Tuesday: Rebuilding Post Fire
- Preparing for Fire in Northern New Mexico
- Unexpected Lessons from Completing the FAC Self-Assessment
- Studying WUI Fires in Pennsylvania
- A New Model for Developing WUI Lands in Central Oregon
- Working with Communities to Reduce Wildfire Risk Through Planning
- Learning in Taos, New Mexico, Part 2: CWPP Updates and Leveraging Resources
- Learning in Taos, New Mexico, Part 1: A Passionate and Motivated CWPP Core Team
- New Guidance for Federal Grantees/Subawardees
- Safe Growth Audits – Another Effective Tool for the FAC Practitioner
- Resilience Resources to Ramp Up your Community’s Fire Adaptation Work
- Category: Prevention
- Wildfire Prep Day 2023: All Projects Big and Small
- Teaching with Tech: Using Fire Simulation Technology to Educate a Community
- Investment in Prevention: Identifying A Growing Need for Reduction of Human Caused Wildfire Ignitions
- Make Preparedness a Priority: Project Ideas for Wildfire Prep Day 2021
- Fireworks Safety Tips Minimize Wildfire Risk for the Holiday Weekend
- Category: Public health/Social Services
- Stuck in the Mud: Gaps in Post-Fire Recovery Programs
- Smoke Ready Communities: A Resource Roundup from the Blog Archives
- Prioritizing Access and Functional Needs in Emergency Planning and Wildfire Response
- Gathering Smoke: Sharing Resources and Output from the Smoke Learning Group
- Wildfires in a Pandemic: What We Learned from 2020 and How to Plan for What’s Next
- Fire Adapted Means Being Smoke Ready
- A Breath of Fresh Air: The City of Ashland’s Air Purifier Pilot Program
- Smoke Adaptation is Fire Adaptation
- Wildfire Smoke Resilience Resources from the EPA
- Asking is Better Than Assuming: Enhancing the Work of Wildfire Practitioners with Social Science
- Category: Publications & Research
- Category: Recovery
- Planning the Road to Recovery: Equitable Funding, Meaningful Partnerships, and Room for Grief
- Maintaining Momentum: Nurturing Public Support for Forest Management After Fire
- Understanding Federal Post-Fire Resources
- Post-Fire Recovery Resource Round Up
- New Resource: FAC Net’s Post-Fire Graphic & Facilitators Guide
- Block Captains: Community Leaders Emerge in the Wake of the 2017 Sonoma Fires
- 6 Resources to Help Communities Recover After Wildfire
- New Post-Disaster Recovery Resources Available
- After the Fire Toolkit in Action
- Category: Resident Mitigation
- “School’s Out, Now What?” Activity Guides, Wildfire Education, & Go Bag Activities for the Whole Family
- #WildfireMitigationWorks: Six More Examples (So, 22 and Counting)
- Enhancing Fire Adaptation Through Active Volunteers: The Neighborhood Ambassador Approach
- Does Wildfire Mitigation Work? 16 Examples and Counting!
- Conducting Wildfire Evacuation Outreach? Project Wildfire Takes the Video Series Approach
- Best Way to Get a Resident’s Attention: Burn Down Their Home (Through a Wildfire Simulation, Of Course)
- Wildfire Community Preparedness Day 2017: What Happened?
- Taking Off the Training Wheels: A Community Gears Up For More FAC Work
- Baker County (Florida) Hires First Ever Firewise Coordinator
- Contributing to a Fire Adapted Future in Flagstaff: Firewise Landscaping Contest Awards
- Making an Impact Through Hands-On Learning
- FireWise of Southwest Colorado Gives Neighborhoods a KICKSTART!
- Fire Department Crews Work with Community
- Redstone Canyon – A Mitigation Success Story
- New USDA Forest Service Publication Highlights FAC
- Category: Response
- Category: Safety/Evacuation
- Evacuation: A Resource Round-Up
- Register Now for Upcoming Evacuation Learning Opportunity
- Renters and Wildfire Preparedness: Engaging Focus Groups to Co-Create a Useful Community Guide
- Firsthand Accounts: How to Prepare Your Community for a Wildfire Evacuation
- Evacuation Planning — What Does It Take to Get a Community Started?
- A Community Evolution: Evacuation Drill in Loma Linda
- Meaningful Measures of FAC Success
- City of Santa Fe Holds Evacuation Drill
Resources
- FAC Pathways Tool
- Tips for Engaging Elected Officials
- Gráfico de Comunidades Adaptadas al Fuego y la Guía del Facilitador
- Preguntas Frecuentes de FAC/FAC Net
- Resources from the Smoke Learning Group
- Improve Fire Outcomes: Meaningful projects you can complete in as little as 10 minutes
- Fire Adapted Communities Graphic and Facilitator's Guide
- Resident HEPA Filter Programs Community Solutions for Creating Clean Air
- FAC/FAC Net Frequently Asked Questions
- Community Wildfire Protection Plans – Revisiting CWPPs: Learning Group Summary
- Gráfico de Recuperación de Incendios Forestales
- Funciones de las Comunidades en la Adaptación al Fuego
- Wildfire Recovery Graphic
- Community Roles in Fire Adaptation
- Let's Talk About FAC Webinar Recording
- 50 Tips for a Vibrant Virtual Workshop
- Notes from the Field: Toasted Ticks
- Notes from the Field: 15 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Cooperative Burning
- July 2018 FAC Net Update
- Developing Community Connections with Asset Mapping: Widening the Circle, Bridging for Support and Becoming Collaborative Partners
- Developing Community Connections with Asset Mapping: Facilitating Local Visioning and Identifying Action Steps
- Developing Community Connections with Asset Mapping: Asset Mapping with Connectors
- Developing Community Connections with Asset Mapping: Situation Assessment
- National Community Wildfire Preparedness Day Project Ideas
- January 2018 FAC Net Update
- FAC Communications Tip Sheet: Language to Use with the General Public
- Notes from the Field: False Hope and the Four Mile Canyon Fire
- "What is a Fire Adapted Community?" Animated Video
- July 2017 FAC Net Update
- February 2017 FAC Net Update
- Developing Community Connections with Asset Mapping: Overview
- FAC Net Facilitator's Guide: Hosting a Learning Exchange
- Local Capacity for Integrated Forest and Wildfire Management
- July 2016 FAC Net Update
- Summary of the 2016 Fire Networks Workshop
- Notes From the Field: FAC Net Members Discuss Innovative CWPPs
- FAC Net Field Guide - January 2016
- FAC Net Newsletter Archive
- Fire Adapted Communities Self-Assessment Tool User and Facilitator's Guide
- Using Plans and Regulations to Increase Community Fire Adaptation: Who's Planning for Wildfire? (Part 4 of 4)
- Using Plans and Regulations to Increase Community Fire Adaptation: The Regulatory Process (Part 3 of 4)
- Using Plans and Regulations to Increase Community Fire Adaptation: The Planning Process (Part 2 of 4)
- Using Plans and Regulations to Increase Community Fire Adaptation: Summary (Part 1 of 4)
- FAC Net Update: October 2015 Handout
- Webinar Recording: Engaging the Public in Improving Fire Outcomes
- Notes from the Field: Fire Departments Conduct FAC Learning Exchange (2015)
- Notes From the Field: Southern Oregon Middle-School Students Get Wise to Fire (2015)
- Notes From the Field: Working with Land-Based Business Owners to Use Fire
- Webinar Recording: Learning Exchanges (PNW - Part 3)
- Webinar Recording: Learning Exchanges (Part 2: Fire Departments)
- Webinar Recording: Learning Exchanges (Part 1: TREX)
- Notes From the Field: Learning Exchanges -- Connecting to Build Capacity and Spread Innovation
- Adopting a Learning Network Approach for Growing Fire Adapted Communities
- FAC Net Annual Workshop Summary 2015
- Lessons From the 2013 Wildfire Season: Webinar Summary
- Austin-Boise Fire Department Learning Exchange
- Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network Field Guide: January 2015
- July 2015 FAC Net Update
- Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network Handout: January 2015
- Promoting Fire Adapted Communities through Property Assessments: Training (Part 3 of 3)
- Promoting Fire Adapted Communities through Property Assessments: Data & Tools (Part 2 of 3)
- Promoting Fire Adapted Communities through Property Assessments: Summary (Part 1 of 3)
- Increasing Watershed Resilience to Promote Fire Adapted Communities: Funding (4 of 4)
- Increasing Watershed Resilience to Promote Fire Adapted Communities: Collaborating (3 of 4)
- Increasing Watershed Resilience to Promote Fire Adapted Communities: Initiating (2 of 4)
- Increasing Watershed Resilience to Promote Fire Adapted Communities: Summary (1 of 4)