Susan Prichard
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A must-read from the @washingtonpost.com's @sadbumblebee.buzz on the cultural burning resurgence taking place in N California. We have a terrible relationship with fire, but the Karuk, Yurok and others show us that a better relationship is possible.
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How indigenous practices can help protect forests
The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 14, 2025 at 6:01 PM
A must-read from the @washingtonpost.com's @sadbumblebee.buzz on the cultural burning resurgence taking place in N California. We have a terrible relationship with fire, but the Karuk, Yurok and others show us that a better relationship is possible.
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solu...
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Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought.
Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.
Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.
Washington State Braces for ‘Inevitable’ Megafire. Climate Change May Bring It Sooner.
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought.
Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.
Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.
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Heartbreaking and enraging. And make no mistake: this is theft. These reports belong to the American people.
You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...
You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...
June 30, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Heartbreaking and enraging. And make no mistake: this is theft. These reports belong to the American people.
You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...
You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...
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Obit of Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French biochemist and physician who developed the synthetic steroid used in the abortion pill, RU-486 (mifepristone). #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/h...
Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Who Developed the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98
www.nytimes.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Obit of Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French biochemist and physician who developed the synthetic steroid used in the abortion pill, RU-486 (mifepristone). #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/h...
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This much needed commentary explains why forest carbon offsets programs are 🐂💩.
"... carbon storage as a nature-based solution will merely serve as a feel-good action and a distraction from meaningful efforts to reduce fossil based carbon loading of the atmosphere" 🔥🧪🌏
"... carbon storage as a nature-based solution will merely serve as a feel-good action and a distraction from meaningful efforts to reduce fossil based carbon loading of the atmosphere" 🔥🧪🌏
Perspectives. Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change: Why our obsession with monetizing forest carbon may be counter productive
Storing carbon in forest ecosystems is commonly promoted as a nature-based solution to climate change in which increases in forest carbon storage are …
www.sciencedirect.com
May 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
This much needed commentary explains why forest carbon offsets programs are 🐂💩.
"... carbon storage as a nature-based solution will merely serve as a feel-good action and a distraction from meaningful efforts to reduce fossil based carbon loading of the atmosphere" 🔥🧪🌏
"... carbon storage as a nature-based solution will merely serve as a feel-good action and a distraction from meaningful efforts to reduce fossil based carbon loading of the atmosphere" 🔥🧪🌏
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Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...
Good Fire and Strong Sovereignty: Cultural Burning as a Path to Indigenous-Led Forest Stewardship
By Bill Tripp
medium.com
May 9, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...
Yertle the Turtle - a classic from Dr. Seuss and quite spot on for the times we are living in.
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May 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Yertle the Turtle - a classic from Dr. Seuss and quite spot on for the times we are living in.
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AFE beat me to the post! Excited to share this paper. We lived through these massive wildfires in 2014 and 2015 and can now share some lessons from them, including areas that have started to reburn.
New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! By Nicholas A. Povak, @susanprichard.bsky.social, Paul F. Hessburg, Vivian Griffey, R. Brion Salter, Tucker J. Furniss, @ginarosa.bsky.social & @firebobbc.bsky.social #SNFECO 🔥 @tmtspringer.bsky.social Read it here: ow.ly/nxax50VLepN
May 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
AFE beat me to the post! Excited to share this paper. We lived through these massive wildfires in 2014 and 2015 and can now share some lessons from them, including areas that have started to reburn.
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Join us tomorrow at 2pm when Dr. Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social will present "Lessons from first-entry burns and reburns: from novel fire exclusion to fire-adapted landscapes" as part of the FFERAL Lecture Series! Register here: tinyurl.com/5n74jrpm
April 23, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Join us tomorrow at 2pm when Dr. Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social will present "Lessons from first-entry burns and reburns: from novel fire exclusion to fire-adapted landscapes" as part of the FFERAL Lecture Series! Register here: tinyurl.com/5n74jrpm
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A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...
CULTURAL BURNING HAS LESSONS FOR TODAY’S SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT
By Jim Durglo
medium.com
April 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...
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Come work in our unique long-term grassland priority effect experiment, POEM, in the beautiful Lüneburg Heathland. PhD position available in my lab to start ASAP to see if sowing forbs or legumes early continues to affect root distribution.
Come work in our unique long-term grassland priority effect experiment, POEM, in the beautiful Lüneburg Heathland. PhD position available in my lab to start ASAP to see if sowing forbs or legumes early continues to affect root distribution.
April 15, 2025 at 7:18 PM
www.leuphana.de/en/
Come work in our unique long-term grassland priority effect experiment, POEM, in the beautiful Lüneburg Heathland. PhD position available in my lab to start ASAP to see if sowing forbs or legumes early continues to affect root distribution.
Come work in our unique long-term grassland priority effect experiment, POEM, in the beautiful Lüneburg Heathland. PhD position available in my lab to start ASAP to see if sowing forbs or legumes early continues to affect root distribution.
I don't know why it took me so long to make the switch, but after painfully slow Google searches resulting in sponsored results and trying to work with add-ons to resolve the issues, I moved to Mozilla Firefox. Fast, specific searches have returned!
April 15, 2025 at 4:27 PM
I don't know why it took me so long to make the switch, but after painfully slow Google searches resulting in sponsored results and trying to work with add-ons to resolve the issues, I moved to Mozilla Firefox. Fast, specific searches have returned!
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Job opportunity!! Communications and social media coordinator for the Thunderbird Collective. Come change the world of fire with us! More job postings to follow in the next month
April 4, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Job opportunity!! Communications and social media coordinator for the Thunderbird Collective. Come change the world of fire with us! More job postings to follow in the next month
Great collection of articles centered on Canadian wildfire science
cdnsciencepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/topic/cjfr-c...
cdnsciencepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/topic/cjfr-c...
March 31, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Great collection of articles centered on Canadian wildfire science
cdnsciencepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/topic/cjfr-c...
cdnsciencepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/topic/cjfr-c...
This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing.
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Assistant Professor (Tenure Track): Wildfire Sciences | Job | UBC
Job Post: UBC Forestry is seeking an Assistant Professor in Wildfire Sciences to develop an novel research program and teach third-year courses. Apply now.
forestry.ubc.ca
March 31, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing.
forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...
forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...
My colleague Jen Hollis just shared this awesome job in Perth Australia for a fire ecologist. Sharing with just the community that I follow on BlueSky. WA = Western Australia! search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
WA Government Jobs | Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist (Fire Science)
search.jobs.wa.gov.au
March 31, 2025 at 1:38 PM
My colleague Jen Hollis just shared this awesome job in Perth Australia for a fire ecologist. Sharing with just the community that I follow on BlueSky. WA = Western Australia! search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...
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Stoked to have contributed to this new paper in BioScience - "Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes".
"Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions"
🧪🌍
"Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions"
🧪🌍
Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes
Abstract. Protected areas form the backbone of modern conservation. However, the current policies and practices in protected areas reinforce a static view
academic.oup.com
March 25, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Stoked to have contributed to this new paper in BioScience - "Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes".
"Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions"
🧪🌍
"Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions"
🧪🌍
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Been working on this story and paintings for months, and following this industrial road proposal for years. At last, here's a brief tale of tribes' generations-long fight to preserve the integrity and connectivity of their ancestral lands and waters, and the wild foods that they sustain.
The case for the Ambler Road had been settled. Regulators would not cleave through Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. However, with President Trump in office, a community that fought to keep the road out of their traditional homelands may find themselves back to square one.
Alaskan Tribes and Activists Are Ready to Resist Ambler Road, Again
The proposed route would slash through pristine Indigenous land
www.sierraclub.org
March 25, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Been working on this story and paintings for months, and following this industrial road proposal for years. At last, here's a brief tale of tribes' generations-long fight to preserve the integrity and connectivity of their ancestral lands and waters, and the wild foods that they sustain.
Baked my Grandma's recipe for bread pudding today. Comfort food was called for after another brutal week in the news. Sharing for all of you bread pudding and raisin lovers out there. Others should probably pass on this one.
February 23, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Baked my Grandma's recipe for bread pudding today. Comfort food was called for after another brutal week in the news. Sharing for all of you bread pudding and raisin lovers out there. Others should probably pass on this one.
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Don’t Believe Him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
This is a most insightful article on King Trump. Do read, it'll cheer you up.
This is a most insightful article on King Trump. Do read, it'll cheer you up.
Opinion | Don’t Believe Him
Look closely at the first two weeks of Donald Trump’s second term and you’ll see something very different than what he wants you to see.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Don’t Believe Him www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...
This is a most insightful article on King Trump. Do read, it'll cheer you up.
This is a most insightful article on King Trump. Do read, it'll cheer you up.
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Join us tomorrow, February 11 at 10am PT for the second session of the CFSC Seminar Series! Sara A. Clark and Jenna Archer will present "Realignment of Federal Environmental Policies to Recognize Fire’s Role." Register here: https://buff.ly/3E9xqsG
February 11, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Join us tomorrow, February 11 at 10am PT for the second session of the CFSC Seminar Series! Sara A. Clark and Jenna Archer will present "Realignment of Federal Environmental Policies to Recognize Fire’s Role." Register here: https://buff.ly/3E9xqsG
So, what did you do with your winter weekend? Backed up my datasets that were on federal cloud computing resources. Sharing in case you need the reminder to do so.
February 2, 2025 at 11:14 PM
So, what did you do with your winter weekend? Backed up my datasets that were on federal cloud computing resources. Sharing in case you need the reminder to do so.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
January 20, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The FFERAL Lecture Series returns on January 29th at 3pm with Professor Don Hankins! Join us in person or via Zoom for the inaugural lecture on "Ecocultural Stewardship of Oak Woodlands and Riparian Forests for Diverse Outcomes." Register here:
2025 FFERAL Lecture Series — California Fire Science Consortium
For the inaugural talk of the 2024 FFERAL lecture series, Professor Don Hankins discusses ecocultural stewardship of oak woodlands and riparian forests for diverse outcomes.
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January 17, 2025 at 8:07 PM
The FFERAL Lecture Series returns on January 29th at 3pm with Professor Don Hankins! Join us in person or via Zoom for the inaugural lecture on "Ecocultural Stewardship of Oak Woodlands and Riparian Forests for Diverse Outcomes." Register here: