A Community Volunteer Radio Network That CAN
Editor’s note: Magdalena Valderrama is the Program Director at Seigler Springs Community Redevelopment Association, a 501c3 nonprofit organization specializing in facilitating collaboration among neighborhoods, tribal nations, county agencies, municipal advisory councils, special districts, and nonprofits for community resilience in wildfire mitigation and watershed restoration. Magdalena is a longtime member with FAC Net. In this blog, she…
Fire Up Your Browser: The Fire Networks Are Online
Did you know that the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (FAC Net), Fire Learning Network (FLN), Indigenous Peoples Burning Network (IPBN), Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (TREX), and Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (WTREX) are all connected? We’re part of a larger partnership, known as the Fire Networks, working to provide resources and relationships that enable…
Loads and Ladders: Catalyzing the “Fire Humanities” for Fire Adaptation
Editor’s note: Sasha Michelle White is an artist, ecologist, and fire practitioner working toward a PhD in Environmental Science at the University of Idaho on the homelands of the Palus, Nimiipuu and Schitsu’umsh peoples. A founding member of the art research collective Fuel Ladder and a pre-doctoral fellow with the Confluence Lab, Sasha gives credit…
Policy Recommendations from the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission
The Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission, formed in 2021 through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, released a series of policy recommendations addressing wildfire in the United States on September 27th, 2023. The Commission was given only a year to conduct a comprehensive review of wildfire policy and produce recommended actions for Congress. The 340-page report…
Sharing Lessons and Knowledge at the PBA Learning Exchange
Editor’s note: Kara Karboski is a program manager at the Washington Resource Conservation and Development Council focused on developing community-led prescribed fire across the state. Kara is also the lead for the Washington Dry Forests Fire Learning Network and leads the planning for the Selkirk TREX. In this blog, Kara details the lessons learned from…
Fire in the Bog: Cranberry Farming in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
Editor’s note: William (Bill) Brash is president of the New Jersey Fire Safety Council (NJFSC) a statewide organization working to create community fire adaptation and resiliency, and a member of FAC Net. Tom Gerber is the B1 Section Firewarden for the New Jersey Forest Fire Service, and owner of the Quoexin Bogs cranberry farm in…
The Arkansas International Fire Training Exchange
Editor’s note: McRee Anderson serves as the Director of the Interior Highlands Restoration Program for The Nature Conservancy in Arkansas, and Brigette Coleman-Williams serves as the Director of Marketing and Communications. McRee has led the South Central Fire Learning Network since the Fire Learning Network’s inception in 2002. The collaborative has been awarded over $51…
Stuck in the Mud: Gaps in Post-Fire Recovery Programs
Editor’s note: Collin Haffey is the Post-Fire Recovery Program Manager for the Washington Department of Natural Resources (since February 2023). Prior to joining the WA DNR, he worked for over ten years in fire ecology and post-fire recovery in the Southwestern US. In 2022, he worked with local, state, and federal agencies to assist communities…
From One Parcel to a Whole Community: NIST’s Hazard Mitigation Methodology
Editor’s note: David Burchfield is FAC Net’s Member Services Associate and a frequent blog contributor. In this piece, David introduces the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Hazard Mitigation Methodology, a framework culminating from years of research on how wildfires impact the built environment. What if you’ve followed every home and parcel hardening recommendation down…
Announcing the New Fire Networks Blog
Since 2014, the FAC Net blog has been a consistent source of fire adaptation stories from people all over the world working to increase resilience, awareness, and inspiration in their communities. Over the years, we’ve heard from practitioners on how to effectively build local capacity, reinvent our relationship and cultural approach to fire, and weave…
