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- The Past Isn’t Static: Fire History on the Fourth of July
- Pyro Futures: Imagining Our Evolving Relationship with Fire
- Bringing Intentional Fire Back to Communities, For Good
- Loads and Ladders: Catalyzing the “Fire Humanities” for Fire Adaptation
- Seeing the Fish for the Fire
- A Pessimist’s Guide to Functional Hope
- Feeling the Power at WTREX
- The Long Haul: A Survivor/Practitioner’s Look at the Journey from Recovery to Mitigation to Planning
- Renewing—and Radicalizing—Our Relationship with Fire
- It’s Not Just You: Burnout and Stress in the Practitioner Community
- Stay in Your Lane, and Use Your Blinker: Navigating the Recovery Road
- In Our Element: Changing Liability Standards to Increase Use of Prescribed Fire
- Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: A Tribute to Wayne Ching & Miles Nakahara
- Happy New Year!
- If Fire Were an Animal, it Would Be a Beaver
- Of Fire and Myth: Will Harling, Bigfoot and the Power of Place
- Project Firehawk: Risk, Ripeness, and the Case for Paper Bags
- A Future with Fire: Desiring Tuesday on this Very Long Monday
- No More Prescribed Fire Barriers: Lessons from Lamprey
- 2019 Year In Review
- Changing the Fire Culture: Let’s Be Provocative
- What the Silver Tsunami Means for FAC and Why You Need to Partner with Assisted Living Facilities
- What’s All This About A Wicked Problem?
- Leaving Paradise
- Stop Focusing on Ignitions and Start Investing in a Prescribed Fire Workforce
- Views of the Carr Fire: Journal Entries from Trinity County, California
- Fire as Medicine: Fire Dependent Cultures and Re-Empowering American Indian Tribes
- Redefining Environmentalism: A Day in the Life with Hilary Lundgren
- Wildfire Funding in the Omnibus Bill: What You Need to Know
- Farmer Gone FAC: A Day in the Life with Frank M. Riley Jr.
- Fire in His Blood, Pace and Scale on His Mind: A Day in the Life with Forest Schafer
- The Evolution of Leadership in Fire: Stories from Three WTREX Leaders
- Integrating Traditional Ecological Knowledge and World Renewal Ceremonies into Fire Adaptation: An Indigenous Stewardship Model
- How Practicing “Enough” and Looking Ahead Can Support Social Innovation
- Managing New Jersey’s Forests for Resiliency: Let’s Come Together
- The Power of Private Lands
- Summer Reading: 10 Wildfire and Behavior Change Books to Choose From
- Science Tuesday: Naturally Human
- PERFACT – More than a Creative Acronym; A Project Advancing Integrated Fire Management
- Say What? Demystifying the Federal Policy Process for Local Leaders
- Fire Adaptation Strategies from Across the Nation: My Travels in 2016
- Reflections on the Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange
- When Fire Comes Close
- What TREX has Meant to One Fire Adapted Culture
- It’s Time for FAC Practitioners to Get Involved in Policy Education
- Women in Fire: Announcing October’s WTREX
- Cooperative Thinning, Burning and Training Help Create A Better Wildfire Outcome
- Burn Scars
- Snapshots of FAC-Building in Baker County, Florida
- A Trusted Translator: The Role of the Community Liaison in Creating Better Wildfire Outcomes
- My Favorite Fall Color is Fire
- A Month in the Working Life of One Fire Adapted Communities Practitioner
- Appalachian RC&D Coalition
- I See Skies of Blue…
- FAC: It’s About Being Proactive and Making Investments
- Why Did Stakeholders in Austin Develop a CWPP? Belief.
- Principles of Network Thinking
- It Takes all Three to Protect a Community
- Category: Fantastic Failure
- Category: Firehawk Series
- Category: Impact Story
- Category: Interview
- Giving Power to Communities for Fire Resilience
- Building A Global Fire Family: An Interview with Andrea Bustos and José Luis Duce Aragüés
- Fire, People, and Place: Making Oshkigin Spirit of Fire – An Interview with Gloria Erickson
- Compassion, Grieving and Being Human: The Path through Recovery with Justice – An Interview with Dr. Alessandra Jerolleman
- Bringing Fire Home: Private Woodland Owner Perspective on the Future of Fire
- A Day in the Life of Ashley Blazina
- Fire First Responders and Forest Restoration, a Vital Connection: A Day in the Life of Neil Chapman
- Taking Responsibility for What is Precious to Us: A Day in the Life of Magdalena Valderrama
- Listening to My Neighbors First: A Day in the Life of Carlie Murphy
- From the Bottom Up: Oregon’s Investment in Fire Adaptation (An Interview with Carrie Berger)
- A Day in the Life with Susie Kocher, Central Sierra Cooperative Extension
- Building Bridges Between Universities, Communities, and Fire: An Interview with Jennifer Fawcett
- Understanding Complexity and Risk in the Wildland Fire Environment: An Interview with Travis Dotson
- Connecting Practice to Policy: An Interview with Annie Schmidt
- A Day in The Life: Network Coordinators
- Bringing the Voices of Collaborative Conservation to Decision Makers in D.C.: An Interview with Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition
- A Day in the Life with Andrew Notbohm: How Emergency Management and FAC Go Hand in Hand
- Florida, Prescribed Fire, the National Association of State Foresters, and Risk Mapping: Meet John Fish
- Working Together: That’s the Central-Oregon Way [A Day in the Life with Alison Green]
- Getting It Done: A Day in the Life with Austin Fire Department’s Wildfire Fuels Mitigation Crew
- The Power of the Partnership: A Day in the Life with Eytan Krasilovsky
- Building Networks Regionally and Statewide: A Day in the Life with Pam Wilson
- Getting Outreach Right, the NASF’s Priorities, and the Evolution of Wildfire Risk Mapping: An Interview with John Fish
- Does the “C” in Coordinating Actually Stand for Communicating? A Day in the Life with Kara Karboski
- What the Joint Fire Science Program Can Do for You: An Interview with Coleen Haskell
- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions! A Day in the Life with Liz Davy, District Ranger at Caribou-Targhee National Forest
- You Just Never Know What You’ll Get into this Time of Year: A Day in the Life with Karuna Greenberg
- Telling the “Good Fire” Story: Two Communities’ Prescribed Fire Outreach Efforts
- Implementing the Cohesive Strategy: An Interview with Katie Lighthall
- Networker by Day; Dad by Night; Firefighter at Heart: A Day in the Life with Porfirio Chavarria
- The Department of the Interior Integrates Its Wildfire Programs: An Interview with the DOI’s Office of Wildland Fire
- Ranch Management with a Fire Adaptation Twist: A Day in the Life with Matthew Ward
- One City’s Lifeline for All Things FAC: A Day in the Life with Alison Lerch
- Scientists and Managers Collaborate on Wildfire in the North Atlantic: An Interview with Inga La Puma
- Training Youth, Collaborating with Private Landowners and a Sense of Humor: A Day in the Life with Krys Nystrom
- The Role of the Bureau of Land Management in FAC: An Interview with Richard Parrish
- Bringing Private Landowners into the Fold: A Day in the Life with Ed Keith
- Working with Fire-Prone Communities in the Northeast: An Interview with Maureen Brooks
- Safety and Service First: A Day in the Life with Mike Davis
- Community-Focused Mitigation Programs and Resources: Interview with Chris Barth
- Urban vs. Rural: When it Comes to FAC, What’s the Difference? [Part 2]
- Urban vs. Rural: When it Comes to FAC, What’s the Difference? [Part 1]
- From Collaboration to Mitigation: A Day in the Life with Jerry McAdams
- Learning to Burn: 25 Years Managing the Albany Pine Bush
- Using Fire to Treat Privately Owned Forests in Oregon: The Firing Boss Perspective
- Using Fire to Treat Privately Owned Forests in Oregon: The Burn Boss Perspective
- An Interview with FEMA Planner Brett Holt (Part 1)
- Study Examines New Type of Wildfire Health Impact
- Don’t Forget to Listen
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- Category: Research Synthesis
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- Category: Tools/Resources
- Category: General FAC
- Category: Landscape Treatments
- Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges: Recent Updates from the Field
- Managed Wildfire: An Essential Tool for a Better Fire Future
- My Five Favorite Photos from WTREX Nebraska
- Understanding Prescribed Fire Capacity in the Western United States
- Barriers and Opportunities for Wilderness Fire in a Time of Change
- Stories from Women-In-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchanges (WTREX)
- Third Time’s the Charm: Burning at Cottonwood Gulch
- Fire in the Swamp: Lessons Learned from the Pulp Road Wildfire
- El Primer TREX en Español en California
- Bringing People Together Across Languages: California’s First TREX in Spanish
- Sharing Lessons and Knowledge at the PBA Learning Exchange
- Fire in the Bog: Cranberry Farming in the New Jersey Pine Barrens
- The Arkansas International Fire Training Exchange
- My Unexpected Journey Into Fire and Leadership
- Igniting Empowerment in Wildfire Mitigation at Women’s Chainsaw Workshops
- Learning About Burning: A Photo Story from ForestHer NC
- Who’s Your Hero? Finding Community Leaders in Fire-Adapted Northeastern Minnesota
- Collaborative Restor(y)ation of Fire-Dependent Places
- Same Issues, Different Landscape: Sharing Fire Adaptation Strategies in Spain
- Farming through Wildfire Season: The Key Role of Farmers in Building Wildfire Resilience
- People, Fire and Pines: How Fire Use by the Anishinaabeg Shaped the Boundary Waters
- Bringing the Fire Adapted Communities Framework to the Central Appalachians: Many Lands, Many Hands
- Burn Small, Burn Often: Introducing Practical Prescribed Fire Into Your Community
- Equitable Workforce Development in Fire Resilience: Creating Pathways for Priority Populations
- Collaborative Implementation in Fireshed Management: Insights from the Medio Fire Learning Exchange
- Weather or Not to Burn: Steps to Organizing Learn-and-Burns
- Pathways to Prescribed Fire: Lessons from Cooperative Burn Partnerships
- Preparing for Wildfire: A Round-up of Fire Weather Resources
- Return to Paradise: Three Years After the Camp Fire
- Fire in the Shrub-Steppe: Resource Round-Up
- Research Thursday: Increasing Resilience and Carbon Storage through In-forest Biochar Production
- People. Fire. Place.
- Onward: The Native Stewards of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust & CalFire Burn Together – the Power of Collaboration
- The Forest Stewards Guild’s HEPA Filter Loan Program
- Science Thursdays: A Look Back at Thirteen of Your Favorite Stories
- Risks and Rewards: Managing Wildfire for Resource Objectives in Northern New Mexico
- Cultural Burning and TEK: How Can FAC Practitioners Leverage Indigenous Connections to Fire Without Exploiting Them?
- Fuels Treatments Aren’t a Guarantee, but They Still Matter: Gaining Perspective from the Carr Fire
- Science Thursday: Finding Good Fire
- How We’re Burning Across Boundaries: Trinity Integrated Fire Management Partnership Case Study
- Show Your Partners You’re Listening. Literally! How We’re Using Values-Based Spatial Planning to Visualize and Prioritize Collaborative Forest Restoration
- Indulging in Fire: Reflections from the Women-in-Fire Training Exchange
- Why We’re Bringing Prescribed Fire and Forest Thinning Closer to Traditionally Preserved Wildlife Habitat: We all Need It. Including the Birds.
- How the Forest Stewards Guild is Building the Next Generation of Fire Practitioners: The Forest Stewards Youth Corps Fire and Fuels Program
- Why the Ferguson Fire Didn’t Destroy Yosemite West: 15 Years of Wildfire Mitigation Generates a California Wildfire Success
- Fantastic Failure: Shared Vision, Shattered Trust
- Talking about Lighting Fire Near Recently Burned Communities: Communications at the Southern Blue Ridge TREX
- Fire Adaptation Public Policy: West Coast Updates
- How Do You Want Your Smoke? Why Oregon Is Exploring a New Smoke Management Plan
- Science Thursday: Poison Oak, Poison Smoke?
- How Healthier Forests Can Mean Less Smoke: The Science, Tools and Strategies Related to Smoke Management in Fire-Adapted Forests
- Don’t Reinvent the Prescribed Fire Wheel: Must-Have Liability, Timing and Outreach Resources
- Timber Treatments Successfully Reduce Wildfire Risk in Utah
- Evolving with Fire: Understanding Flammability and Rethinking Burn Windows [Science Thursday]
- Science Thursday: Mysterious Mistletoe
- Good Fire on the Ground in 2017: Seven Controlled Burns to Learn From
- Science Tuesday: Fire Fungus
- Communicating Amidst Controversy: The Fire Learning Trail [An Interview with Jenifer Bunty]
- Trial by Fire: Prescribed Fire Training in the Wildland-Urban Interface
- Prescribed Fire Outreach Assessment — The Verdict Is In
- Science Tuesday: Going Nuclear
- Fire and Water are Linked in New Mexico
- Fighting Central Oregon Wildfire with Fire
- Science Tuesday: Frost on Fire
- 15 Lessons Learned from 10 Years of Cooperative Burning
- Science Tuesday: Toasted Ticks
- Science Tuesday: Burning the Late Bloomers
- Lend a Hand: Models for Increasing Prescribed Fire Operational Capacity
- Science Tuesday: Seeing Cowboys as Catalysts
- Advancing FAC in Hawaii: Increasing Awareness, Thinking Both Short and Long Term and … Goats?
- Pile Burning in Southwest Colorado: Complicated Circumstances Offset by Partner Support
- Science Tuesday: What’s Your State’s Prescribed Fire Liability Law?
- Winter Pile Burning Highlights: Snow Tips, Outreach and a Surprise
- Science Tuesday: Fire History is Human History
- Citizens Witness Successful Prescribed Burn in Idaho
- Need a Conversation Starter? Here’s Some Turkey/Forest/Fire Trivia!
- Veterans Work on Wildfire Mitigation: Thinning Stands, Burning Acres… Changing Lives
- Too Many Trees: Firescape Mendocino Plans for Bark Beetles
- Discussing the Future of Ponderosa Pine and the Timber Economy in Southwest Colorado
- Flagstaff “Forest Restoration and Harvesting Methods” Showcase
- Collaborative Controlled Burn in New Mexico Demonstrates Fire as an Essential Ecosystem Process
- Growing Your Local FAC Workforce: New Resource
- New Jersey Draft Legislation Benefits Ecosystems, Improves Safety
- Tahoe Basin Residents Celebrate 20 Years of Restoring Their Environment
- Prescribed Fire Road Show
- Science Tuesday: Why Mesophication Matters
- Using Fire to Treat Privately Owned Forests in Oregon: Landowners’ Perspectives
- The 4 Rights Campaign: Prescribed Fire is Right 4 the Environment
- There is Fire in Nevada’s Future!
- Enhancing Wildfire Adaptation Through Increased Spatial and Situational Awareness
- Using GIS to Analyze Slash Site Outcomes
- Becoming DWaRF
- Science Tuesday: Back to Florida!
- Northern California Prescribed Fire Council 2016 Annual Meeting Recap
- Prescribed Fire Open House Provides Learning Experience for Community
- Science Tuesday: Mastication: Not a Simple Story
- Research Aims at Reducing the Fire Backlog in the Sierra Nevada
- What We’re Learning about Current and Future Wildfire Threats to Island Park, Idaho
- Science Tuesday: Highlights From a Decade of Fire and Climate Research
- Reducing Wildfire Risk in Santa Fe Through Collaborative Burning: The Aztec Springs Pile Burning Project
- All Aboard the Christmas Tree Train!
- Wildfire Mitigation and Assistance through USDA-NRCS
- Prescribed Burning in Colorado’s Front Range: An After Action Review
- Managing Northeastern Pine Barrens for People and Nature
- Burning Together and Learning Together
- Prescribed Fire Barriers – Widespread Challenges with Regional Flavors?
- Shevlin Fire Lends a Teachable Moment for Shevlin Commons Residents
- The Challenging Economics of Treating Fuels to Build Fire Adapted Communities
- Building Mitigation Contractor Capacity in Southwest Colorado
- Central Oregon is Preparing for Fire Season
- Building Prescribed Fire Capacity in New Mexico
- Forest Guild Completes First Controlled Burn on Private Land in La Cueva, New Mexico
- A Low-Income Wildfire Risk Reduction Pilot Program in SW Colorado
- Oregon Trail: A Landscape-Scale Revegetation Project
- Building Local Capacity in Deschutes County
- Rapid City, SD Hires Veterans for Wildfire Fuel Mitigation
- 2013 W. Klamath Mountains Wildfires: A Success Story
- Five Lessons from the Wildfire Season
- Stewardship Contracting Helps Communities and Public Land Managers Treat the WUI
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- Category: Partnerships & Community Engagement
- “Neighboring”: An Antidote to the Separation of Our Fire Adaptation Efforts
- Community Wildfire Defense Grant (CWDG) Round 2 Funding Opportunity Now Available
- Redefining Wildfire Social Science Research With Practitioners, Part 1
- Spreading the FAC Spark: Grassroots Success and Resident-Led Efforts in the Appalachian WUI
- Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice: A Practice, Not a State of Being
- Trauma-Informed Care for Community Wellbeing: The Sonoma Wildfire Mental Health Collaborative
- Putting Wildfire Plans to Use: Dusting Off That CWPP
- A Chip Off the Old Block: Our Guide to Starting a Chipping Program in Your Community
- Common Ground, Neighborhood Networks, and How Preparing for Wildfire Brings Us Together
- Fire Adaptation in Southern Appalachia: Storytelling Through Story Maps
- New Moves: Partnering with Local Real Estate Agents
- A Practice in Purpose: Using Nature Journaling Practices to Help Create Fire Adapted Communities
- Helping Our Senior Community Prepare
- Partnering for Resiliency – Outside the Box
- Outcome-based Management for Western Rangelands: Using Experience & Need to Help Manage for Fire
- What Comes First — Collaborative Mapping or Mapping Collaboration?
- Let’s Put the Cart *After* the Horse: California’s Forest and Fire Capacities Needs Assessment
- How Some Communities are Adapting their FAC Work to a Virtual World: Wildfire Prep Day and Community Outreach
- I’ve Got Them Non-Profit Funding Blues: Lessons Learned in Funding Wildfire Resilience in Archuleta County, CO
- Youth Education and Outreach: Resources and Examples from Across the Network
- What We’re Reading: Our Favorite Fire-Related Newsletters and Blogs
- Back to School: A Wildland Fire Book List for Young Readers and Educators
- What Does Community-led Recovery Look Like? A Case Study from the Carwoola 2017 Bush Fire
- Let’s Talk About Fire Adapted Communities!
- Nine Tips for Talking about Fire and FAC
- How Ashland Passed a Wildfire Ordinance (Hint: We Removed Our Ordinance Blinders)
- 14 Community Wildfire Preparedness Ideas at Your Fingertips.
- Stop Winging It with Residents: What Works, and What Doesn’t
- Nine Fact Sheets That Will Make Your Job Easier: NFPA Resources about Wildfire-Resilient Homes
- Happy New Year! Seven Fire Adaptation Videos to Watch Before Launching into 2019.
- Unsung Heroes of the 1988 Yellowstone Fires: Church Leaders and Farmers
- Equity in Action: Long-Term Disaster Recovery in North-Central Washington
- Seeking and Finding Community Capacity for Wildfire Resilience
- Your Wildfire Terminology Dictionary (Well, A Blog-Post Version of a Dictionary, at Least)
- Is Investing in Defensible Space Worth It? Six Examples Point to Yes!
- Science Thursday: An Argument for Heterogeneity, in the Kitchen Sink and in the Fields
- #Fireadapted Summer Reading: 2018
- Fire Adapted Communities on the Range: Why Rangeland Fire Protection Associations Matter
- Fantastic Failure: Big Stick, Big Mouth
- Can You Hear Me Now? Why We All Need a Refresher on “The Imagined Public”
- Six Great Wildfire Adaptation Resources in Spanish: It’s About More Than Word-for-Word Translations
- Collaborative Spatial Fire Management: Getting Ahead of Fire Using Potential Operational Delineations
- Better Work, Bigger Impact: Recent Fire Adaptation Highlights
- When Wildfire Hits the Ranch: Lessons Learned from the Thomas Fire
- 17 Ways We Grew: Community Wildfire Resilience Lessons from 2017
- Science Tuesday: Why Homes Burn (and Why I’m Reminding You)
- Raising the Bar for Firewise USA™ Sites: Oregon County Pilots a Local Firewise “Four-Star” Rating Program
- The Line Between Fire Adapted Communities and Fire Resilient Landscapes Isn’t Just Invisible; It Doesn’t Exist
- Give and Take: Building Friendships to Create Access for Fuels Reduction Projects
- Planning Pays Big Dividends: 4 Successes from the 2017 Wildfire Season
- How Salt Lake City’s Community Wildfire Protection Plan Generated Action in Less Than a Year
- Overcoming Capacity Barriers to Fuels Reduction Projects
- Facilitating Dialogue in Communities: Using the FAC Self-Assessment Tool
- Community Wildfire Resilience Workshop Gets Rave Reviews — Key Ingredients
- The ABC’s of Wildfire Terminology
- The Art and Science of Home Wildfire Evaluations
- Who’s Missing? Thinking about Wildfire Resilience through an Equity and Inclusion Lens
- Teaching Fire with Fire: A Unique Approach to Community Outreach
- Between Two Fires: Lessons Learned in Kittitas County
- Rejuvenating FAC Outreach in the Wasatch Front
- Wildfire Mitigation through Partnerships: Southwest Colorado Success Story
- So Little Time, So Much to Read: Conflict Management Blogs I Follow
- Summer Program for Teenagers Addresses Wildfire Risk in New Mexico
- Completing the (Fire) Cycle of Information Sharing
- Mock Fire Camp in Island Park Attracts Residents
- Capacity And Transformation In Social-Ecological Systems
- An Interview with National FAC Program Manager Pam Leschak
- Meeting People Where They Are: Door-to-Door FAC Outreach
- Science Tuesday: Don’t Believe Everything You Think!
- First Municipal Fire Safety Council Formed in Barnegat Township
- The Western Klamath Restoration Partnership Uses the Open Standards Process
- Moving from Firewise to FAC in North Georgia
- Institutions are Key Elements of Fire Adapted Communities
- Lessons Learned from a Successful Year of FAC Outreach
- Potlucks and Sparkplugs: Firewise Success Catches on in Upper Cow Creek
- Island Park Sustainable Fire Community Wildfire Awareness Days
- Baker County FAC Effort Welcomes New Partner
- Public Information Working Groups Create Wildfire Awareness
- Building FAC Skills: Collaborative Learning Training Program
- Integration of Cohesive Strategy Goals a Reality in California’s Klamath Mountains
- Resources for Planning and Leading Effective Meetings and Collaborative Learning Processes
- Becoming Fire Adapted: An Evolutionary Process in the Pine Barrens
- Approaching Relationships with Landowners
- Fire Adapted Communities: On the Front Lines in Ely, Minnesota
- Making Things Happen for Rural America Is What RC&D’s Do
- How Can Youth Play a Role in FAC?
- What Makes a FAC Program Worth Investing In?
- FAC Outreach: Early Lessons From the Two Bulls Fire
- Re-thinking Leadership to Create Stronger Networks
- Building Trust in Fire-Affected Communities: A Planning Guide for Managers
- Getting a Great Turnout (Part 3): coordinate an effective media strategy
- Successful Collaboration Tips from the Fire Learning Network
- What We Lack: A Great Way to Answer the Question “What is FAC?”
- Striving for a More Complete Portrayal of Wildfires
- Five Tips for Engaging Your Community in FAC
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