Choosing a Fire Future: Lessons from Southwest Colorado
Editor’s note: Michael Caggiano is a longtime Fire Learning Network partner and Fire Management Specialist with the USDA Forest Service. Ty Aldworth is a Research Associate with the Colorado Forest Restoration Institute. In this blog, they share lessons learned from six 2023 fires in Southwest Colorado. This blog is the second in a special 2024…
Pyro Futures: Imagining Our Evolving Relationship with Fire
Editor’s note: Emily Schlickman and Brett Milligan are professors of landscape architecture and environmental design at the University of California, Davis (UC Davis). In this blog, they introduce the Pyro Futures exhibition and Design by Fire book, both projects that imagine what our future relationships with fire could look like. All text and images can…
Our Responsibility to the Future
Editor’s note: Ryan Reed is from the Karuk, Hupa and Yurok tribes in Northern California. He is an Indigenous Fire Practitioner, co-founder and program director of the FireGeneration Collaborative, wildland firefighter, University of California Berkeley master’s student, and prides himself as a Karuk Medicine person strongly connected to his cultural practices and Pikyavish (World Renewal)…
Reciprocity through Art: The Fire and Music Project
Editor’s note: Ellen McGehee is a Fire Operations Specialist for the Watershed Research and Training Center (also known as the Watershed Center) in Trinity County, CA. Ellen is also a violinist, and co-founder and host of the Trinity Alps Chamber Music Festival. In this blog, Ellen transports us to a powerful day of burning with artists…
Wildfire Insurance, Fire Smart Landscaping, and Preparedness for Short-Term Rentals
Editor’s note: The Fire Adapted Montana Learning Network (FAMLN) is a long time member of the national Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net), and is also connected to the Blackfoot Valley Fire Learning Network. FAMLN centers the needs of the communities they serve in the development resources and materials. In this blog, we feature…
Minding the Gap: Increasing Data Equity in Fire Adaptation
Editor’s note: Tiernan Doyle is FAC Net’s Strategy Director. In this blog, she shares an overview of a recent learning series for the Fire Networks on “data equity,” and how we can improve understanding of and approach to a community’s fire vulnerability through just practices. Okay, but… what is data equity? I was describing a…
Fire in the Swamp: Lessons Learned from the Pulp Road Wildfire
Editor’s note: Nathan Burmester is the Coastal Plain Stewardship Manager for The Nature Conservancy in North Carolina. He also serves as an at-large board member for the North Carolina Prescribed Fire Council. In this blog, Nathan comments on the 2023 Pulp Road Wildfire in North Carolina, which began as an escaped prescribed burn and was…
Rogue Valley PBA Helps Deliver Fire Education for Youth
Editor’s note: Aaron Krikava is the prescribed burn program director for the Applegate Partnership and Watershed Council in Southern Oregon, and the Rogue Valley Prescribed Burn Association’s steering committee chair. Since 2022, Aaron has been a part of the planning team for the Rogue Basin TREX in the Rogue Basin FLN landscape. The Rogue Valley…
Cleaner Air, One Filter at a Time: Stories from FAC Net’s Community Clean Air Project
Editor’s note: Smoke from wildfires and some prescribed fire events can be disruptive, if not dangerous, for community members. Adding a filter to the home can help mitigate the presence of smoke. In this blog, FAC Net’s Member Services Associate David Burchfield recaps some success stories from grantees across the country that took part in…
Climate Resilience, Mentorship, and Community Engagement: A Resource Roundup from WAFAC
Editor’s note: the Washington Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (WAFAC) is a wealth of fire resilience information for both Washington State residents and a national audience alike. In this blog, staff members from WAFAC share some resources they gleaned from a recent mentorship program for emerging leaders in FAC work. Wildfire work can be tough…
