The Long Haul to Wildfire Recovery, Part 2
Editor’s note: Eliot Hurwitz is the Executive Director of the Seigler Springs Community Redevelopment Association (SSCRA), based in Lake County, California. Magdalena Valderrama is Program Director for SSCRA and a longtime FAC Net member. This blog is a continuation of reflections Magdalena shared in her 2021 blog, “The Long Haul: A Survivor/Practitioner’s Look at the Journey…
El Primer TREX en Español en California
Nota del editor: José Luis Duce Aragües y Andrea Bustos son especialistas en entrenamiento en incendios prescritos del Programa de Manejo de Incendios del Centro de Capacitación e Investigación de Cuencas. Erin Banwell es codirectora del Programa de Manejo de Incendios. En este blog, describen el reciente evento de entrenamiento sobre fuego prescrito (TREX) en…
Bringing People Together Across Languages: California’s First TREX in Spanish
Editor’s note: José Luis Duce Aragües and Andrea Bustos are prescribed fire training specialists with the Watershed Research and Training Center‘s Fire Management Program. Erin Banwell is the co-director of the Fire Management Program. In this blog, they describe the recent Spanish-language prescribed fire training (TREX) event held in Trinity County, CA last October, which…
Post-Fire Resilience Workshops: Nurturing Community Growth Post-Wildfire
Editor’s note: Grace Dean is a Communications Specialist for the University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (UC ANR) Forest Stewardship Education Initiative. The Post-Fire Forest Resilience Program exists under the Forest Stewardship umbrella and provides communities with an educational toolkit to manage post-fire forested land. In this blog, Grace describes the design…
The Fire Networks Blog: What You Missed in 2023
Happy New Year! As 2024 dawns, we are taking a moment this week to review the incredible stories we featured on our blog in 2023. We published 40 stories in 2023, over a quarter of which were written by new authors to the blog. In September, we also transitioned this platform from the FAC Net…
Stories of FAC Work on the Local Scale: 2023 Opportunity Fund Report
Editor’s note: FAC Net, one of the four networks that make up the Fire Networks, offers small micro-grants each year to FAC Net members. Other networks within the partnership offer similar structures to support their member-led work. Recipients of FAC Net opportunity funds over the years have included Fire Departments, HOAs, Fire Safe Councils, non-profits,…
Bringing Intentional Fire Back to Communities, For Good
Editor’s note: Logan Krahenbuhl coordinates the Plumas Underburn Cooperative for the Plumas County Fire Safety Council and is a burn crew member with The Nature Conservancy’s Northern America Fire program. He has BA in Geography from California State University, Chico and has worked in fire suppression, fuels, and conservation for the past few years. He…
Five Useful Apps for Wildfire Readiness
Milo Smith, a lifelong resident of Southern California, has been driven by a deep-seated motivation to tackle the challenges posed by natural disasters with innovative solutions. With a strong connection to his hometown and years of firsthand experience enduring the smoke haze of wildfire seasons, Milo has dedicated himself to the cause of wildfire prevention…
The Nature Conservancy’s North America Fire Burn Crew Program: A Human-Centered Approach to Supporting the Fire Workforce
Editor’s note: Elliot Nauert is an Extension Associate in Wildland Fire with North Carolina State Extension Forestry. His work is focused on outreach, education, and coordination to support the use of prescribed fire in the southeast. In this blog, he details his experiences working with the Nature Conservancy’s North America Fire Program, which carries a…
Reflections on Practitioner Wellbeing and Mental Health
Editor’s note: This blog is part of an important conversation about wellbeing and mental health for practitioners working in fire, and serves as a continuation of reflections we shared in last year’s blog, “The Workforce We Have: Reflections on the Practitioner Wellbeing Learning Group.” Discussions of mental health can cover a wide range of topics,…
