Updated Resources for Community Wildfire Protection Plans
With round three of the Community Wildfire Defense Grant awardees just announced and looking ahead to round four, FAC Net staff have been thinking a lot about Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) — the different guidance and templates available, the variety of approaches to community engagement and stakeholder feedback, and examples of plans that touch…
Helene, Fire, and the Systems that (Don’t Need to) Fail Us
Editor’s note: Laurel Kays is the Assistant Director of the Fire Learning Network (FLN) and lives in central North Carolina. In this blog, Laurel reflects upon the lasting impacts of Hurricane Helene, recovery systems, and the hope she finds in the stewardship and connection of FLN members. This weekend will mark one year since Hurricane…
Ten Years of Fire Adaptation Work in Lake County: An Interview with Magdalena Valderrama
Editor’s note: In this blog, we sit down with longtime FAC Net member Magdalena Valderrama to discuss how her community and her fire adaptation work have changed in the decade since the 2015 Valley Fire in Lake County, California. Magdalena lost her home in the Valley Fire and subsequently co-founded the nonprofit Seigler Springs Community…
School’s in Session! Fire Education Resources for Youth
It’s after Labor Day, and schools around the country are reconvening for the start of the school year. Many classrooms will be incorporating lessons about fire, what with different fire curricula becoming more readily available and relevant to students’ learning needs and interests. Fire education in K-12 schools gives students a chance to explore how…
Creating a More Complete Picture of Fire: An Interview with Fire Ecologist Kori Blankenship
Editor’s note: Kori Blankenship is a certified fire ecologist with The Nature Conservancy’s LANDFIRE team. She combines on the ground experience in forestry and fire with technical expertise in ecological modeling and spatial analysis to support conservation and land management efforts across the U.S. Her current projects focus on understanding contemporary and historical fire regimes,…
The Blackfoot TREX: When the Collaborative Rubber Meets the Road
Editor’s note: Julia Berkey is a key partner in the Blackfoot Valley Prescribed Fire Working Group, a Fire Learning Network (FLN) region. She is also a FAC Net member. FLN staff supported the Blackfoot TREX planning team in organizing their first event, and also attended part of the TREX and provided operational assistance. See more…
Northeast Coastal Plain FLN (Emerging}
Northeast Coastal Plain FLN (Emerging) Photo Credit: Mike Crawford, TNC The Northeast Coastal Plain FLN is an emerging network that has grown from decades of momentum around fire in the Northeast. We facilitate peer learning around Northeast coastal plain fire-adapted landscapes. We strive to be a catalyst for restoration by bringing partners together to promote…
New Resources Available Now for Supporting Smoke Ready Communities
The Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network is excited to release the newly developed smoke ready communities graphics and companion materials! These graphics were developed in the spring of 2025 in collaboration with the Washington Fire Adapted Communities Network, Liz Walker, PhD, and a number of partners in the public health, air quality, and wildfire fields….
Stories from the 2025 Yellow Star Thistle TREX in Northern California
Editor’s note: The Watershed Research and Training Center (WRTC), based in Hayfork, CA, is a non-profit organization working to create meaningful partnerships for land stewardship and empower the local community. It is also the parent organization for FAC Net. WRTC’s Fire Management Program hosts hands-on trainings and cooperative prescribed burns across the state of California…
Facing Displacement After Wildfire: Insights from Cross-Sector Dialogues
Editor’s note: Tiernan Doyle is FAC Net’s Strategy Director. The Climigration Network brings together people with lived and learned expertise to advance transformative, community-led approaches to climate displacement and relocation in the US and its territories. In this blog, Tiernan recaps a series of conversations hosted by FAC Net and the Climigration Network on wildfire…