Zach Behrens
@zachbehrens.bsky.social
Taos, NM | Public lands and fire communicator. Interested in systems thinking. Personal account.
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PCW doesn’t just install Wi-Fi – we also set up PurpleAir monitors on our network in North Philadelphia! We’ve installed monitors across Norris Square & Fairhill at community orgs and residential homes. Thanks to the EPA Region 3 Sensor Loan Program for supplying us with 10 PurpleAir monitors!
November 22, 2025 at 6:19 PM
PCW doesn’t just install Wi-Fi – we also set up PurpleAir monitors on our network in North Philadelphia! We’ve installed monitors across Norris Square & Fairhill at community orgs and residential homes. Thanks to the EPA Region 3 Sensor Loan Program for supplying us with 10 PurpleAir monitors!
Reporting in from Taos, N.M.
November 12, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Reporting in from Taos, N.M.
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BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 PM
BLACK SUN: Amorphous Flocks of #Starlings Swell Above the Danish Marshlands - amazing #murmuration #photography by Søren Solkær
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
Link for more photos: www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/11/sore...
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I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
Landkeeping
With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural bu...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
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Our new research highlights the extent that aspen stands may act as a firebreak, slowing or stopping fire. Applications for land management and implications for fire-driven conifer-to-aspen forest conversion. Thanks @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social for the summary below. doi.org/10.1002/eap....
July 10, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Our new research highlights the extent that aspen stands may act as a firebreak, slowing or stopping fire. Applications for land management and implications for fire-driven conifer-to-aspen forest conversion. Thanks @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social for the summary below. doi.org/10.1002/eap....
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
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Winter isn't over yet, New Mexico! Snow moves into the state Friday night through Saturday. 1-4" likely across eastern NM, over 6" north of I-40, and up to 18" in the northern mountains. A mix of rain/snow possible in ABQ early Saturday morning. #NMwx
April 3, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Winter isn't over yet, New Mexico! Snow moves into the state Friday night through Saturday. 1-4" likely across eastern NM, over 6" north of I-40, and up to 18" in the northern mountains. A mix of rain/snow possible in ABQ early Saturday morning. #NMwx
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"The system" is a thing we create to organise ourselves. We should rule it, not the other way round. Systems can be changed, because they are human inventions. All of us can make our corner of "the system" better, more empathetic, greener. Progress comes by valuing the humans above the system.
March 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
"The system" is a thing we create to organise ourselves. We should rule it, not the other way round. Systems can be changed, because they are human inventions. All of us can make our corner of "the system" better, more empathetic, greener. Progress comes by valuing the humans above the system.
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This is the kind of dystopian post-collapse content I come to Bluesky for.
Wife just wove a basket out of some old Ethernet cables I had in a box, because art.
It's funny, I can look at that object and Ethernet feels like the ancient tech and baskets at least like they have some currency...
It's funny, I can look at that object and Ethernet feels like the ancient tech and baskets at least like they have some currency...
March 29, 2025 at 4:55 PM
This is the kind of dystopian post-collapse content I come to Bluesky for.
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Juan Diego Romero, 28, has been elected to take the reins from his 90-year-old grandfather overseeing the web of acequias in La Cienega south of Santa Fe. He's been helping maintain the ancestral ditches since he was 3 years old.
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'Living the tradition': As spring cleaning arrives, acequia mayordomo passes torch to grandson
With spring comes the cleaning of the ancestral acequias, and for one commission, the generational passing of leadership.
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March 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Juan Diego Romero, 28, has been elected to take the reins from his 90-year-old grandfather overseeing the web of acequias in La Cienega south of Santa Fe. He's been helping maintain the ancestral ditches since he was 3 years old.
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sfnm.co/423HZ8T
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Every time someone my age says something about “a brainrot trend on TikTok…” I’m compelled to remind Gen X that we were obsessed with Gregorian chant for a year in the 90s. Like we *went to the mall* & *bought CDs of it*. We blasted it in our cars driving to our high schools. This was normal to us🥸
March 22, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Every time someone my age says something about “a brainrot trend on TikTok…” I’m compelled to remind Gen X that we were obsessed with Gregorian chant for a year in the 90s. Like we *went to the mall* & *bought CDs of it*. We blasted it in our cars driving to our high schools. This was normal to us🥸
What’s better than picking up @sgj.bsky.social’s “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” on release day and cracking it open with a bowl of Three Sisters Soup?
March 19, 2025 at 3:42 AM
What’s better than picking up @sgj.bsky.social’s “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” on release day and cracking it open with a bowl of Three Sisters Soup?
By Firenze street artist Clet. Spotted at Villa Della Spotta and Piazza Degli Ottaviani in Nov. 2024.
March 4, 2025 at 2:38 AM
By Firenze street artist Clet. Spotted at Villa Della Spotta and Piazza Degli Ottaviani in Nov. 2024.
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“Every time you burn grasses, you’re creating water because you have less plants to draw it down. The more you burn, the more water you’ll have.”
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“Fire and water go hand in hand.”
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“Fire and water go hand in hand.”
NOTEBOOK FEATURE: Fire and water: How cultural burns boost streamflows
By Robin Meadows On a mild November day in California’s Sacramento Valley, Diana Almendariz ignites a clump of dry grass in a grove of cottonwoods. Landin Noland, wearing a thick, protective shirt wit...
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February 8, 2025 at 2:40 PM
“Every time you burn grasses, you’re creating water because you have less plants to draw it down. The more you burn, the more water you’ll have.”
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“Fire and water go hand in hand.”
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“Fire and water go hand in hand.”
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"the high cost of free parking" is a book that legit rewired my brain. RIP to a great scholar
I'm deeply saddened to share that Donald Shoup passed away last night. He was the ideal academic—curious, methodical, and concerned with turning ideas into real-world change. TAing his parking course these past few years has one of the greatest honors of my life. Rest in peace, Shoup Dogg.
February 8, 2025 at 5:03 AM
"the high cost of free parking" is a book that legit rewired my brain. RIP to a great scholar
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After 10 days on the Eaton Fire as a PIO earlier this month, I've been thinking a lot about how disasters will require us to show up in unexpected ways, and often in ways that don't feel especially glorious. I wrote a bit about this idea here: amandamonthei.substack.com/p/what-we-do...
What We Do In Disasters
Grappling with what showing up looks like.
amandamonthei.substack.com
January 31, 2025 at 6:37 PM
After 10 days on the Eaton Fire as a PIO earlier this month, I've been thinking a lot about how disasters will require us to show up in unexpected ways, and often in ways that don't feel especially glorious. I wrote a bit about this idea here: amandamonthei.substack.com/p/what-we-do...
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Great new article describing how federal environmental laws are inhibiting rather than enabling agencies and practitioners from using prescribed and cultural fire to restore forest health and combat the #wildfire crisis.🧪🌏🔥
Realignment of federal environmental policies to recognize fire’s role - Fire Ecology
Background Enactment of the Clean Air Act (CAA), Endangered Species Act (ESA), and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), three of the primary federal environmental laws, all coincided with the hei...
fireecology.springeropen.com
August 26, 2024 at 2:50 PM
Great new article describing how federal environmental laws are inhibiting rather than enabling agencies and practitioners from using prescribed and cultural fire to restore forest health and combat the #wildfire crisis.🧪🌏🔥
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Hansen (2012) does the hard math looking at many variables, but here's the basic summary: an intense brushfire with average 8ft flames requires ~264,000 gallons/acre to extinguish. The top flow from a fire hydrant is 1,500 g/m. This is why we cut line.
www.publish.csiro.au/wf/WF11022
www.publish.csiro.au/wf/WF11022
Estimating the amount of water required to extinguish wildfires under different conditions and in various fuel types
In wildland fires where water is used as the primary extinguishing agent, one of the issues of wildfire suppression is estimating how much water is required to extinguish a certain section of the fire...
www.publish.csiro.au
January 25, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hansen (2012) does the hard math looking at many variables, but here's the basic summary: an intense brushfire with average 8ft flames requires ~264,000 gallons/acre to extinguish. The top flow from a fire hydrant is 1,500 g/m. This is why we cut line.
www.publish.csiro.au/wf/WF11022
www.publish.csiro.au/wf/WF11022
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Social media during wildfires is such a hellscape. I can only say that there are countless people working hard on this problem every day, with little support, through endless barriers, all in pursuit of a more fire resilient future. Days like today require hope, and those folks are where I get mine.
January 10, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Social media during wildfires is such a hellscape. I can only say that there are countless people working hard on this problem every day, with little support, through endless barriers, all in pursuit of a more fire resilient future. Days like today require hope, and those folks are where I get mine.
Her analogy is a bit on the nose for me, but @pahlkadot.bsky.social is right. Waste, fraud and abuse procedures are well intentioned but they can run amok.
Is there a path to responsible disruption?
I hope it's not too late for the kind of clearing of the brush that controlled burns bring.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2024 at 1:27 PM
Her analogy is a bit on the nose for me, but @pahlkadot.bsky.social is right. Waste, fraud and abuse procedures are well intentioned but they can run amok.
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Wow-one of the most interesting comments I've gotten for #SciComm:
"Schimel’s book, “Writing Science” and BIOL 735 have served as invaluable resources. They have transformed writing from a vague, iterative, hope-for-the-best process into an algorithmic approach to creating easily digestible works."
"Schimel’s book, “Writing Science” and BIOL 735 have served as invaluable resources. They have transformed writing from a vague, iterative, hope-for-the-best process into an algorithmic approach to creating easily digestible works."
Today, I wrap up teaching the writing part of my #SciComm class for the 8th (& possibly last) time. It is so gratifying to see the growth and reflection amongst the students in the class. At the end, I give the class my synopsis "Schimel Sheet": burginlab.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...
Please share.
Please share.
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November 11, 2024 at 7:39 PM
Wow-one of the most interesting comments I've gotten for #SciComm:
"Schimel’s book, “Writing Science” and BIOL 735 have served as invaluable resources. They have transformed writing from a vague, iterative, hope-for-the-best process into an algorithmic approach to creating easily digestible works."
"Schimel’s book, “Writing Science” and BIOL 735 have served as invaluable resources. They have transformed writing from a vague, iterative, hope-for-the-best process into an algorithmic approach to creating easily digestible works."
Early to a morning meeting on a dirt road above Taos
October 31, 2023 at 4:43 AM
Early to a morning meeting on a dirt road above Taos
Today’s pile burn operation in Taos Ski Valley: cold, hot, and 45 acres accomplished 👊
October 30, 2023 at 3:45 AM
Today’s pile burn operation in Taos Ski Valley: cold, hot, and 45 acres accomplished 👊