This is a great job if you have the right skills. I am looking at you archaeometry-types. www.facebook.com/share/1PXdkz...

Roos et al. have managed to find information where it was thought implausible…[in] this seminal publication. We have a lot of fire in our future. But then we have had a lot of fire for all of our past. It is there to learn from if we choose to look for it.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Tree-ring fire records from 649 pine trees in central and eastern Arizona show that fires occurred more often in the territory of the Western Apache, or Ndee, than in other regions between 1600–1870, suggesting a culturally controlled fire regime. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A new study led by SMU fire scientist Christopher Roos reveals that Western Apache communities had far greater control over fire patterns across Arizona than scientists previously believed possible. 🧪🌎 www.smu.edu/news/researc...

The western North American forestland carbon sink: will our climate commitments go up in smoke? esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

#Wildfire season is starting weeks earlier in California (up to 2.5 months in some mountainous regions) and large fires have grown more frequent, according to a new analysis of 30 years of fire data. Hotter temperatures and dryer atmospheric conditions are responsible buff.ly/zlitNPA #ClimateSky

Wildfire activity worldwide was higher in 2023 and 2024 than in any year since monitoring began in 2001. Tropical forests are seeing particularly high rates of forest loss. Some forest systems may be approaching tipping points of ecosystem change. In PNAS: www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

‘Unprecedented’ wildfire burns area size of Paris in southern France.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

Wildfire devastation doesn't stop when the fires are out.
#Climate
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#ICYMI Webinar Recording Now Available: "How do Fire Managers use Information?: Developing Practical and Usable Weather and Climate Information for Southwest Wildfire Management"
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From fire survivors, to people far away breathing wildfire smoke, the physiological, psychological and economic consequences of climate-fueled fires are huge, and growing.

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Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Fine work that both extends our knowledge of the past and has implications for today. Ndee (Western Apache) land management did a remarkable job controlling forest fires, even in drought-heavy eras like ours. It defies belief to think today's fire-torn SW has nothing to learn from those guys.

New paper out on the dangers of using patterns across spatial climate gradients to predict what will happen with changing climate. That includes species distribution modeling. Space-for-time substitution can be misleading in sign, not just the magnitude of effects.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

1/New Open Access paper in PNAS with an outstanding team of collaborators:
Tree rings reveal persistent Western Apache (Ndee) fire stewardship and niche construction in the American Southwest.
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

#BuffaloRestoration burns can get intense: “Combating woody encroachment means hotter burns. That requires wider firebreaks, more suppression equipment, and good coordination.”

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“There’s a school of thought that you can just put a fence around a forest and keep people out, and it will be protected, which is a very old-school view, a very colonial view. It comes from this idea that we came to a land that was ‘empty’ and there for the taking.”

I'm back home with my dad and have thoughts about being an Indigenous scientist and academic. I'm writing this in real time so it might get disrupted and will have typos.

I am fairly successful by academic standards. I have a tenure track job, wrote papers, have grant funding, mentor students.

The Turkeyfeather Fire in the Gila Wilderness, NM has burned as a low-severity fire over about 24,000 acres (so far). This is a continuation of a fire regime that existed for millennia before the 20th century. This 🧵reviews the fire history of the Gila, as my colleagues and I have studied it. 1/18