Long-term Recovery Planning: Where We Started [Learning Exchange Summary]
Author’s Note: Contributed to by Alison Green, Hilary Lundgren and Ed Keith. Fire adapted communities take action before, during and after a wildfire. Fire adapted communities are also resilient...
View ArticleReflections on WUI 2017
Wildland-Urban Interface: noun | areas where homes and forests meet | “WUI” This year’s WUI Conference, an annual event hosted by the International Association of Fire Chiefs, started on a somber...
View ArticleScience Tuesday: Seeing Cowboys as Catalysts
Last week was filled with firsts: my first time in Nebraska; my first time trying Mountain Dew, Rocky Mountain oysters and runzas (a Nebraskan spin on a sandwich); my first time tagging the ear of a...
View ArticleFAC Net Meets in Tahoe!
Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network is wrapping up a great workshop in Lake Tahoe! Stay tuned for a post later this month that will highlight the workshop’s take-aways. Thanks to all of the...
View ArticleLend a Hand: Models for Increasing Prescribed Fire Operational Capacity
The more I’ve learned about fire, the more I’ve grown concerned about the lack of prescribed fire in the San Francisco Bay Area (Bay Area), where I live. Most of my go-to spots for recreation are...
View ArticleCross Boundary Fire Adaptation: Tahoe Basin Field Exchange
The Lake Tahoe Basin (basin), the location of the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network’s 2017 annual workshop, is the epitome of a multi-jurisdictional landscape. At just over 200,000 acres, it...
View Article2017 Colorado Wildland Fire Conference: From Awareness to Action
The first Colorado Wildland Fire Conference (CWFC) occurred in 1997. A small group of local, county and state fire service personnel saw the need to develop a conference that provided an opportunity...
View ArticleCommunity Wildfire Adaptation: North Georgia-Style
Did you know they have federally listed endangered green pitcher plants in the mountains of north Georgia? Me neither. I learned this (and got to see some of these carnivorous plants) while...
View ArticleFAC: A Common Theme at the Arizona Wildland-Urban Interface Summit
Fire adapted communities was a common theme during the recent Wildland-Urban Interface – Living with Wildfire in Arizona Summit. FAC principles were embedded in the opening remarks, presentations,...
View ArticleIt’s the Relationships
It surprises no one reading this that relationships matter. But a recent workshop in Wenatchee, Washington, provided excellent examples of how investments in intangible assets — like well-tended...
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