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“It’s not just knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It’s about how to steward this place, it’s about actively, physically tending to this place and rebuilding these sacred relationships,” says Aja Conrad.
Managing Wildfires Using A Centuries-Old Indigenous Practice
The Karuk Tribe in Northern California has stewarded its home using prescribed burns for millennia. Now, they’re training others on the skill.
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September 4, 2025 at 12:22 AM
“It’s not just knowledge for knowledge’s sake. It’s about how to steward this place, it’s about actively, physically tending to this place and rebuilding these sacred relationships,” says Aja Conrad.
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Forest treatments work to reduce wildfire risk to carbon storage, and also to hot drought mortality. We need more treatments, and we need them now, but also, we need them to be ongoing into the future.🧪🔥 www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...
Frontiers | Rising from the ashes: treatments stabilize carbon storage in California’s frequent-fire forests
The stability of seasonally dry Western mixed-conifer forests is threatened by the history of fire suppression, logging, and now increasing climate-driven ar...
www.frontiersin.org
September 3, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Forest treatments work to reduce wildfire risk to carbon storage, and also to hot drought mortality. We need more treatments, and we need them now, but also, we need them to be ongoing into the future.🧪🔥 www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...
Just published: natural experimental design + dynamic ex-post baselines applied at scale to test fuel treatment effectiveness & carbon durability in the Central Sierra of CA. 🔥 ♥️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...
Frontiers | Rising from the ashes: treatments stabilize carbon storage in California’s frequent-fire forests
The stability of seasonally dry Western mixed-conifer forests is threatened by the history of fire suppression, logging, and now increasing climate-driven ar...
www.frontiersin.org
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Just published: natural experimental design + dynamic ex-post baselines applied at scale to test fuel treatment effectiveness & carbon durability in the Central Sierra of CA. 🔥 ♥️ www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...
Years ago I stepped into this work with one big question: How can we fund proactive wildfire treatments before disaster strikes?
In AZ, it’s tough—low-value timber, high costs, and countless hurdles. We know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but where do we find the $ to pay for it?
In AZ, it’s tough—low-value timber, high costs, and countless hurdles. We know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but where do we find the $ to pay for it?
February 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Years ago I stepped into this work with one big question: How can we fund proactive wildfire treatments before disaster strikes?
In AZ, it’s tough—low-value timber, high costs, and countless hurdles. We know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but where do we find the $ to pay for it?
In AZ, it’s tough—low-value timber, high costs, and countless hurdles. We know an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, but where do we find the $ to pay for it?
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I got to work with a wonderful recent ERG PhD, Micah Elias, on this. Congrats to him! Micah is now the director for natural capital at Blue Forest Conservation: hope I can continue to work with him and the great team over there! www.linkedin.com/in/micah-eli...
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January 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
I got to work with a wonderful recent ERG PhD, Micah Elias, on this. Congrats to him! Micah is now the director for natural capital at Blue Forest Conservation: hope I can continue to work with him and the great team over there! www.linkedin.com/in/micah-eli...