Wildland Fire Blog

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Fire-adapted bear grass, post-burn

Web Reads: New Resource: FAC Net's Post-Fire Graphic & Facilitators Guide (fireadaptednetwork.org)

10/16/2020

Many communities across the west are grappling with how to best recover from these large-scale fires. This blog shares a Wildfire Recovery graphic, created by FAC Net and FAC Net practitioners and it is designed to help communities see the breadth of wildfire recovery actions, whether they are working to piece their communities back together after a fire or are working now to prepare for recovery.

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Machinery grinding up small trees in a forest

Reducing wildfire risk and protecting structures (www.nps.gov)

09/25/2020

Last year the National Park Service received an additional one million dollars in funding to reduce wildfire risk to structures, facilities, and infrastructure. The Natural Resources Stewardship and Science and Visitor and Resource Protection’s Fire and Aviation Management Program associateships selected Crater Lake and Yellowstone National Parks as the as the focus areas for this risk reduction investment.

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Cows grazing on a hillside of shrubs and grasses

In the News: Using outcome-based grazing to manage fire (fireadaptednetwork.org)

09/11/2020

Katie Wollstein is a research assistant from the Policy Analysis Group and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Idaho. Katie has been working for the past five years on researching the social and policy aspects of rangeland management in the West talking with ranchers, land managers and policy makers. In this blog she shares a bit about what she’s learned.

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