Field notes, explainers, and shorter analysis. Same standard of evidence as our reports, without the full apparatus.
Frank Carroll argues NWCG qualification standards and task books, while vital for safety, are constraining wildfire and prescribed-fire workforce capacity — and calls for risk-based recalibration rather than abandonment.
A deep-dive into how environmental litigation reshaped federal forest policy, ended salvage logging, and helped fuel recurring wildfire disasters in western Oregon.
This article revisits Steve Pearce’s request for a post‑fire report after New Mexico’s 2012 Whitewater‑Baldy and Little Bear megafires, outlining Bill Derr’s findings, NWA’s four core principles, and the call to restore the 10 A.M. Policy, end “let burn” strategies, treat fuels, and actively manage
Brent Oliver argues that true Forest Service stewardship must include access, maintenance, and disability rights—not just land protection—while highlighting the growing deferred maintenance crisis.
Dr. Bob Zybach and John Marker show that suppression is only a small fraction of wildfire damages, using the Douglas Complex to illustrate cost‑plus‑loss economics and a practical one‑page checklist for quantifying true wildfire impacts.
Jim Petersen explores “wildfire economics,” tracing Bob Zybach’s forest history work, academic debates over old growth, and the full spectrum of pre‑, during‑, and post‑fire costs from suppression to sawmills and biomass.
Forest fires impose hidden costs on Idaho through suppression spending, lost timber revenue, damaged watersheds, and reduced opportunities for future generations, demanding a new approach to forest stewardship
Royal Burnett explains key concepts in prescribed fire planning, including burn objectives, control lines, fuel models, weather parameters, and the use of BEHAVE‑based tools like the Wildfire Pocket Analyst for safer fire use.
An analysis of the Interior Department’s decision to end key partnerships, examining wildfire policy, forest management, and the debate over activist influence on public lands.
An examination of modern wildfire in America, exploring how institutional incentives, technological ignition, and collapsing distinctions between natural and profane fire are reshaping landscapes and communities.
New alliance between the National Wildfire Alliance and Rogue Siskiyou Regional Wildfire Training Center (RSR) is building a year‑round Western wildfire workforce and rapid response system across states.
Dr. Bob Zybach’s 59‑minute presentation on catastrophic wildfires, toxic smoke, forest management history, and reforestation opportunities in Eastern Lane County, Oregon
Frank Carroll argues that active forest management, timber harvest, thinning, and prescribed fire are essential to reducing wildfire risk and protecting America’s national forests.
A reflection on James Watt’s 1984 warning, today’s wildfire crisis, and why failed forest policy, megafires, and collapsing public lands demand urgent action.
This publication explores how tribal forestry supports forest health, wildfire resilience, cultural stewardship, and rural economies, while highlighting the findings of the IFMAT III assessment.
An argument for replacing “managed fire” with rapid suppression, salvage logging, active forest management, and infrastructure repair to restore forests and protect communities after wildfire.
Nadine Bailey lost her livelihood to spotted owl politics — then watched those same unmanaged forests explode into catastrophic fire. Her 30-year testimony connects federal forest policy directly to lung cancer, lost towns, and toxic air.
A retired Forest Service employee raised serious concerns about the Station Fire review — incomplete interviews, management failures, and employee retaliation fears. The agency's response? Case closed.
In this article David L. Auchterlonie shows The WHO, the Lancet, the National Academy of Sciences, and dozens of peer-reviewed studies have reached the same conclusion: wildfire smoke is carcinogenic. It is linked to COPD, cardiovascular disease, and even autism in children — and kills an estima
Wildfire smoke is a silent public health crisis. Learn why the U.S. must shift to aggressive early suppression — and how delayed action is poisoning the air millions of Americans breathe every summer.
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