A Decade of Stories, Resources, and Perspectives from the Fire Community
For a decade, the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network has been offering this blog as a platform for practitioners to share their work – from hard-earned successes, to lessons learned – and everything in between.
Since its beginning in 2014, we have published over 680 stories. We’ve hosted uplifting and inspiring narratives, interesting thought pieces, resource roundups, and more. What began as a way to share news and updates from Network staff and members has grown into an ever-expanding collection detailing the hard work and inspiring visions of wildfire practitioners and researchers across the nation, and globe. This blog exemplifies our core value of letting people speak for themselves, and build community through sharing their experiences.
In the fall of 2023, we expanded the blog to represent the larger Fire Networks partnership, which includes FAC Net, the Fire Learning Network (FLN), the Indigenous Peoples Burning Network (IPBN), and Prescribed Fire Traning Exchanges (TREX). Our hope is this blog will live on as a way to review how far we have come in our fire resilience work, serve as a way for people looking for ideas to explore what this work looks like in other communities, and continue to highlight the heart of this Network: the people.
This week, we want to mark this moment – 10 years of sharing stories with our community, and building a better understanding of the experience of fire. To celebrate and take a look at how much we’ve covered in a decade, here are 10 blogs from 10 years, with your voices always leading the way.
2014 – Building Local Capacity in Deschutes County, Oregon
2015 – Making an Impact Through Hands-On Learning
2016 – A Different Approach to Our Wildfire Message
2017 – 15 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Cooperative Burning
2018 – Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes
2019 – Changing the Fire Culture: Let’s Be Provocative
2020 – Project Firehawk: Risk, Ripeness, and the Case for Paper Bags
2021 – Compassion, Grieving, and Being Human: The Path Through Recovery with Justice
2022 – Planning the Road to Recovery: Equitable Funding, Meaningful Partnerships, and Room for Grief
2023 – Building a Global Fire Family: An Interview with Andrea Bustos and José Luis Duce Aragüés
2024 – Reciprocity Through Art: The Fire and Music Project
2025 and beyond…
…YOU make our blog! We welcome all authors to submit ideas for blog posts. Have an idea to share, but not sure how to express it? We will work with you to develop your ideas. Blogs take many forms – photo essays, interviews, resource highlights – we can find the right format for your story.
A heartfelt thanks to all the authors and readers that continue to make this blog a go-to resource in this work. Comment below with your favorite Fire Networks blog!
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