From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

If you use any USDA climate or carbon data or reports - download them NOW. The are being removed from the web.

Keep on keepin’ on

Wishing a wonderful Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! 🥳🎉🎊🎶🐍✨️

thank you for sharing

Drawing by danibeez of Boxer from Animal Farm dragging a rock with his mantra 'I will work harder'

There are definitely days when I identify a little too much with Boxer (image from DaniBeez www.deviantart.com/danibeez)

Setting fire to a million acres of California could cut smoke by half As California expands its prescribed burning efforts, a study of more than 180 such projects suggests they are an effective way to reduce a blaze's intensity and smoke

Prescribed burning can reduce the severity and amount of smoke from wildfires that burn those areas later on, even when accounting for smoke from the prescribed burns themselves, according to new analysis of California’s record-breaking 2020 fire season from @soa-mazing.bsky.social etal. 🧪

Persistent Effects of Landscape Context on Recruitment Dynamics During Secondary Succession of Tropical Forests In a tropical agricultural landscape, conserving strips of secondary forests along streams had a positive impact on tree recruitment in young regrowing forests. Surprisingly, this effect persisted ev...

How does landscape context influence recruitment dynamics in secondary forests? Find out in our new paper lead by Dr. van Breugel: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AguaSalud

When ecologists show you a picture of an ancient forest they took please understand it's a sign of great respect in their culture - stolen from Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends

stolen from: Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends

Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880) Aim Increasing aridity has driven widespread synchronous fire occurrence in recent decades across North America. The lack of historical (pre-1880) fire records limits our ability to understand long-...

"Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880)" this seems to provide an important insight to me

Yes!! The wildfire crisis is not a tech problem, it’s a people problem

Let's bring back a proven campaign to prevent wildfires Nearly 80% of wildfires in New Mexico are caused by human activity. While we can’t control lightning strikes, we can take proactive steps to reduce the number of fires sparked

Nice op-ed from New Mexico's state forester: we can do better on preventing unintended human-cause wildfires

Why fertility and birth rates are falling - The Global Story podcast, BBC World Service YouTube video by BBC World Service

Wow Stephanie Hegarty is smart!

youtu.be/zItgxM1sNqw?...

A cartoon from Tundra about a fir tree only producing one cone

I love it when Tundra does cartoons about trees!

“Life is a hard battle anyway. If we laugh and sing a little as we fight the good fight of freedom, it makes it all go easier. I will not allow my life's light to be determined by the darkness around me.” ― Sojourner Truth

Tis the season!

Some views of recent pile burning activity on Pajarito Ski Mountain. Over 40 piles were burned on this multi-county effort (Sandoval, Los Alamos).

Congratulations to all involved on some great work!

📸: Brian Filip

Something I never thought I’d see in 1989:

Increasingly Active Wildfire Seasons Threaten the Sustainability of Forest‐Backed Carbon Offset Programs In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. While California maintains ....

In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I’m recruiting for a graduate student to work on forest climate resilience at the University of Vermont! For more information, see the first listing here www.uvm.edu/rsenr/gradua...

Please share widely!

Learning from wildfires: A scalable framework to evaluate treatment effects on burn severity Interruption of frequent burning in dry forests across western North America and the continued impacts of anthropogenic climate change have resulted in increases in fire size and severity compared to....

Learning from wildfires: A scalable framework to evaluate treatment effects on burn severity
great work @susanprichard.bsky.social !

An oak shelterwood harvest with an understory of mountain laurel in southern New England on a grey fall day

Sheltwood sunday - an old shot of an oak shelterwood harvest with an understory of mountain laurel

Consider adding @dremilyphd.bsky.social health disparities & nurse scientist

Informing proactive wildfire management that benefits vulnerable communities and ecological values Read the free Plain Language Summary for this article on the Journal blog.

Cool to see colleagues doing good work!
"Informing proactive wildfire management that benefits vulnerable communities and ecological values"

Old forests?
Count me in
Online discussion next week

A mountain at sunset with a ponderosa pine tree

Shaggy Peak because the more tree photos, the better

Magazine cover for the Forest Stewards Guild

Woohoo!
The 2024 Forest Stewards Guild annual review is out!

foreststewardsguild.org/wp-content/u...

Measuring and predicting disturbance resilience in ecosystems, with emphasis on fire: A review and meta-analysis As disturbance regimes change in response to anthropogenic activities, ecosystem resilience is critically important to the persistence of biodiversity…

Great new paper by Dr. Aslan: Measuring and predicting disturbance resilience in ecosystems, with emphasis on fire: A review and meta-analysis
(Dr Aslan is proof that you can be a kind, collaborative person and do topnotch science)

Great conversations at the Fire Ecology Conference - I’m learning important nuances on fire management, tools, and organizational dynamics #SWFECO24 swfireconference.org/schedule/

Dr Edgeley presenting on social science

Excited to be at the Southwest Fire Ecology Conference! #SWFECO24
(Photo of the awesome Dr Edgeley)