Wildfires and Asbestos Exposure Guide
Wildfires pose a threat for asbestos exposure as they move into cities and residential neighborhoods…
Fire Prevention Week 2021: An Expert Interview & Advocacy Guide
The devastation from home and wildfires leaves nothing to the imagination. Images of smoking home…
Wildfire Safety Guide
If you’re a homeowner, it can be highly stressful if a wildfire begins and spreads…
Fire Management Today: January 2021
Developments in Wildland Fire Research…
LIVING WITH WILDFIRE IN ASHLAND
Wildfire affects many types of communities. Improved understandings of urban conflagrations are leading some fire-prone…
Forest & Fire Toolkit: Rural Living in the Siskiyou Mountains
This toolkit is a ‘one stop shop’ for the resources you need to acquaint yourself…
SAFETY PRECAUTIONS AND CONSIDERATIONS
A wildfire, also known as a wildland fire or rural fire, is an uncontrolled fire…
The Age of the “Megafire”
Wildfires shattered records across a number of U.S. states in 2020, with scientists and state…
Forest Resiliency in Lake and Klamath Counties
Wildfire doesn’t respect land ownership boundaries — that’s why Fire Resiliency projects like the Klamath-Lake…
What is Fire Intensity?
Fire intensity is the amount of energy or heat given off by a forest fire…
What is a Wildland Urban Interface (WUI)?
Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) is the area where human development and the natural world meet…
What is a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP)?
A Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) is a plan developed by a community in an…
What is a Fire Adapted Community (FAC)?
A Fire Adapted Community acknowledges and takes responsibility for its risk of wildfire and takes…
What is The National Cohesive Strategy?
The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy is a collaborative effort involving federal and state…
What is a Prescribed Burn?
A prescribed burn, also called a controlled burn, is the intentional application of fire to…
Summary of Fuels Treatment Effectiveness in the Rosland Road Fire Response
[The] Following is a summary of the interactions between recent fuels treatments and the Rosland…
Strategies for Increasing Prescribed Fire Application on Federal Lands: Lessons from Case Studies in the U.S. West
We are investigating policies that affect land managers’ ability to conduct prescribed fire on US…
Changing Fire, Changing Forests: The Effects of Climate Change on Wildfire Patterns and Forests in the Pacific Northwest
Forests are an iconic feature of Northwest landscapes.…
Can Prescribed Fire Do the Work We Hired It to Do?
After a more than a century of fighting to keep fire out of forests, reintroducing…
Of Woodpeckers and Harvests: Finding Compatibility Between Habitat and Salvage Logging
The western United States is home to many woodpecker species that are strongly associated with…
Covering Wildfires – Media Emphasis and Silence
Media coverage can play an important role in framing natural disasters and influencing public understanding…
Learning To Live With Wildfire
The way we dealt with wildfire for much of the 20th century was mostly dead…
After the Fire: Vulnerable Communities Respond and Rebuild
When the Camp Fire burned through Paradise, California, in November 2018, 85 people lost their…
Before the Fire: Protecting Vulnerable Communities From Wildfire
Wildfire has always been a natural feature of the U.S. landscape, especially in the West.…
The Effects of Postfire Salvage Logging on Aquatic Ecosystems in the American West
Throughout the American West, a century of road building, logging, grazing, and other human activities…
Nine Fact Sheets That Will Make Your Job Easier
NFPA Resources about Wildfire-Resilient Homes…
Changing Wildfire, Changing Forests
How climate change is affecting fire regimes and vegetation in the Pacific Northwest…
A New Vision for Wildfire Planning: A Report on Land Use and Wildfires
With growing urgency, it is critical that Oregon’s land use system be used and strengthened…
Restoration in a Fire Forest: The Benefits of Burning
Wildfire has historically played an important role in the health and structure of Oregon’s dry…
How Healthier Forests Can Mean Less Smoke
The Science, Tools and Strategies Related to Smoke Management in Fire-Adapted Forests…
Wildfire Preparedness Sheet
Keep your family and home safe by downloading this sheet. Keep it on your phone,…
Air quality impacts from prescribed fire and wildfire: How do they compare?
Prescribed fires are regulated by states and are always subject to strict air-quality standards. Wildfires,…
Full Community Costs of Wildfire
Almost half of the full community costs of wildfire are paid for at the local…
Prescribed Burning in Progress
After nearly a century of aggressively fighting to keep fire out, our forests are overly-dense…
How to prepare your family for wildfire season
Tips to keep your family and home safe during wildfire season.…
How does a controlled burn work?
Kaitlyn Webb from the U.S. Forest Service explains how a prescribed burn is conducted and…
2017 Pacific Northwest Fire Narrative
The 2017 Pacific Northwest fire season was as memorable as it was long and arduous.…
Analysis: Could forest collaborative work?
Realizing it needed to protect its only water source, the city of Ashland, Oregon launched…
After the Fire: A Closer Look
This is the second article in a two-part series that explores a remarkable set of…
Rich Fairbanks: Beware of wildfire ‘solutions’ that will make the problem worse
To evaluate these policy proposals and decide what we should do in our public forests,…
Era of Megafires
Click to learn more about how to bring this informative presentation to your town!…
The Potential Economic Consequences of Post-Fire Logging on Federal Lands
Post-fire logging provides no free lunch. Sure, those who benefit from the logging will find…
Benefits of Fire
The sounds and smells of fire bring different images to different people. That is surprising…
Planning Tools to Reduce Montana’s Wildfire Risk
Montana wildfires are getting bigger, lasting longer, and causing more damage to homes and property.…
CFLRP Projects
There are 23 CFLR projects, spanning the states of Arkansas, Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho,…
Forests – Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program Q & A
Our policy expert introduces the forest restoration program that’s garnering impressive results around the nation.…
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program
Between April-September of 2017 third-party researchers investigated Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) and the…
Firewise Toolkit
During a wildfire, firefighting resources are limited and firefighters must often make quick decisions on…
Homeowner Checklist
Wildfires don’t have to destroy everything in their path. Science and research have proven that…
Wildfire Preparedness
The Firewise USA™ program provides a number of proven tools and resources for homeowners and…
Fire Adapted Communities
Every year thousands of wildfires burn millions of acres across the United States. It’s not…
Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network
We work with communities across the nation to create a more wildfire-resilient future. A “fire…
Keep Your Home Safe From Wildfire!
To survive a wildfire, property owners need to manage the land surrounding their homes and…
Fire Ecology
Fire ecology is a branch of ecology that focuses on the origins of wildland fire…
Conifer Regeneration after Forest Fire in the Klamath-Siskiyous: How Much, How Soon?
The increasing frequency and extent of forest fires in the western United States has raised…
How does a forest fire benefit living things?
Despite the damage that can occur to property and people, good things can come out…
CALIFORNIA CONFLAGRATION PROMPTS MORE CALLS FOR WILDFIRE FUNDING FIX
If Congress spent more money to prevent fires, it wouldn’t have to spend so much…
How Washington’s formula for fighting wildfires makes them worse
The monstrous flames ripping through Northern California in recent days have burned communities to the…
Effort in Sisters saved homes but highlights obstacles
Lightning started a forest fire one August afternoon near this Oregon tourist town, and it…
Flyover video shows Columbia gorge areas burned by Eagle Creek fire
Documentary filmmaker Trip Jennings flew over the Columbia River Gorge the evening of Saturday, Sept.…
Cost of fighting U.S. wildfires topped $2 billion in 2017
The costs of fighting U.S. wildfires topped $2 billion in 2017, breaking records and underscoring…
Living (Dangerously) in an Era of Megafires
We have all seen the news–hotter summers, and bigger, badder wildfires. What’s going on? How…
Coalition Letter on Infrastructure Legislation
Dear Senator: On behalf of our millions of supporters, we ask that you strongly oppose…
Testimony of Susan Jane M. Brown, Western Environmental Law Center
Chairman McClintock, Ranking Member Hanabusa, and members of the subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity…
HOW DOES CLIMATE CHANGE AFFECT FOREST FIRES?
When we talk about the many effects of the climate crisis, a few tend to…
Impact of anthropogenic climate change on wildfire across western US forests
Increased forest fire activity across the western continental United States (US) in recent decades has…
Climate Change Has Doubled Western U.S. Forest Fires, Says Study
A new study says that human-induced climate change has doubled the area affected by forest…
Investing in Fire Adapted Communities & Resilient Landscapes
The size and severity of wildfires in the West have increased dramatically in the past…
The Ecological Benefits of Forest Fires
This has been the summer of forest fires in North America. Hundreds of fires still…
Never Eliminate Public Advice: NEPA Success Stories
Why Is the National Environmental Policy Act So Important? With an emphasis on “smart from…
The role of defensible space for residential structure protection during wildfires
Across the globe and over recent decades, homes have been destroyed in wildfires at an…
Why are wildfires good for the environment?
We here in the great state of New York live in a fairly natural disaster…
Dousing the Claims
Already this year, wildfire records have been broken. Hundreds of families have lost their homes.…
Information on Appeals, Objections, and Litigation Involving Fuel Reduction Activities
Increases in the number and intensity of wildland fires have led the Department of Agriculture’s…
Warming and Earlier Spring Increase Western U.S. Forest Wildfire Activity
Western United States forest wildfire activity is widely thought to have increased in recent decades,…