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An important idea I've heard from @amonthei.bsky.social is "unsuppressability." Many are possessed of the VERY mistaken notion that all wildfires CAN BE suppressed. But 4 a select few, there is no technology on Earth that can stop them. Humility is part of the path out of the wildfire crisis.
As far as I know, most places don't have geologic hazard alerts for those at risk for landslides and debris flows. But if you live below a recent burn scar, on an alluvial fan, or get your water from an area that has recently burned, I would do some research on how to prepare for the coming storm.
Massive atmospheric river heading towards the PNW this week, bringing a half inch of rain a day to some areas and up to five inches of rain total in places.
These types of storms destabilize slopes that are susceptible to landslides, which includes slopes that have been destabilized by fire!
Great interview with @riverselby.bsky.social on her new book HOTSHOT, which is now very much on my list. Follow @amonthei.bsky.social’s Life With Fire if you are interested in thoughtful conversations about wildfire.
The funny thing is that I'm fairly certain the author of these books was in the Wildfire subreddit last year asking some extremely specific questions (with full admission of what she was working on) and the community was really kind/helpful with her requests! www.amazon.com/Sky-Ridge-Ho...
Was talking to a groups of 50-ish year old women at a concert last night. They asked what I did and I told them about my wildfire work. One went “OH! I just read a series of *spicy* novels about hotshots! I learned so much about firefighting from it!”
Is smut an underrated form of #scicomm? lol
Thank you so much for sharing, Murphy!
Thank you @amonthei.bsky.social for a very thoughtful conversation about the north rim situation. If you care about our terrible relationship with fire and getting more good fire on the ground, this is the podcast for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.
My Roman empire is that some version of the headline below could happen in almost every county in the US right now if it experienced a disaster.
We need to sit with that and then figure out how to do better—quickly.
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Anyone know where to find smoke data or live-ish prescribed fire/wildfire maps for (northern) Spain? Was great weather for burning today and I biked by at least two sizable burns, was hoping to find more info about them!
Community-level resilience has been a heavily requested topic by listeners over the years, but I could never give it the space I think it needed—I'm immensely grateful to Fire Aside for supporting my efforts to explore this topic from multiple angles and perspectives!
In our final episode of the series we spoke with Butte County Fire Safe Council ED Taylor Nilsson, who talked about the realities of recovering from and preparing for megafires, often simultaneously. Butte County has had over 90% of its WUI burned in 1999! lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...
Ep. 2 was with Fire Aside CEO Jason Brooks, who spoke to the importance of scaling up home risk assessments and how Fire Aside fills this critical gap, particularly as more data is needed to inform state-wide policy (which connects to our previous ep.) lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...
The first episode was with former CAL FIRE chief deputy director Chris Anthony, who spoke to big picture policy considerations in the community resilience space (particularly in CA, where Chris now consults with a number of fire-adjacent orgs and companies): lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...
I just finished up a month-long podcast series (supported by @fireaside.bsky.social), all centered on Community Wildfire Resilience. My approach to this conversation was to start as big as possible—with community resilience policy in California—and end at the community/implementation scale.
A red card is required to respond to wildfire incidents, whether as a firefighter, information officer, logistics chief or other roles that support firefighting operations. So anyone who goes out on wildfires either as part of their normal job or on top of their normal job would have a red card.
I don't have anything longer form yet. I just heard these numbers this morning, though many fire folks have been ringing the alarm on this since cuts started in February. We're about to enter the "find out" phase of f*ucking around and finding out.
We will, without a single doubt, be short of firefighters and fire support folks this year. This will, without a single doubt, impact firefighter safety.
Due to DOGE cuts, RIFs and early retirements, the Forest Service has lost 1600 red-carded individuals and five complex incident management teams (the teams that manage the large, complex incidents that you see on the news) ahead of what is expected to be an active wildfire season.
I will keep this in mind! I spoke with Susan Jane Brown (www.silvixresources.org/about) on this topic last week and am hoping to release that episode soonish. But I'm also working on a substack post about this topic and may need additional interviews/context to make that happen as well. Thank you!
The home insurance crisis is coming to a town near you. Reporting by @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social!
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Center for Biological Diversity (@biologicaldiversity.org) recently published an opinion piece: "‘Active management’ harms forests — and it’s about to get a whole lot worse." Given that this article has considerable bearing on my profession, allow me to offer a different point of view. 🌎🍁🔥🌳
One reason the feds aren't discussing the situation & planning with state/local resources is because they aren't allowed to do so. Seeing it all laid out in this article is bracing.
We are already well behind the curve & stand no chance of getting ahead of the 2025 fire year. Prepare accordingly.
Still amazed that these two maps are not making more news and generating more public comment. Especially given the intentionally degraded capacity of the federal wildland fire service.
New paper alert -- Gavin Jones strikes again!
Key findings:
• Fire-driven complete loss of mature forest habitat in California is possible by 2100 under 'business as usual'.
• Active forest restoration could slow or reverse trends of mature forest loss.
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Thanks for your ongoing coverage of this, Murphy!
thank you for reading, as always <3
