Field notes, explainers, and shorter analysis. Same standard of evidence as our reports, without the full apparatus.
Dr. Bob Zybach’s 59‑minute presentation on catastrophic wildfires, toxic smoke, forest management history, and reforestation opportunities in Eastern Lane County, Oregon
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.
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
An opinion piece arguing that better vegetation management near powerlines, including logging and replanting with low-growth crops, could reduce catastrophic wildfire risk in rural Oregon.
Smokejumper Magazine editor Chuck Sheley discusses wildfire impacts, smoke, community effects, and the role of rapid initial attack and wildfire management policy in Northern California.
Breathing wildfire smoke for days can rival a pack-a-day smoking habit — and the science now proves it. Eight years after this essay was first written, the crisis is bigger, the policy failures deeper, and the smoke is still coming.
Learn who the pioneer smokejumpers were, how the first U.S. smokejumper program began in 1939, and which early jumpers shaped its history.
Subscribe to the National Wildfire Alliance newsletter and receive the latest on wildfire policy, forest management and community protection.
