by FSEEE | Aug 6, 2026 | Community Fire Resilience, Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth, Science Notes
Dr. Jack Cohen delivered a keynote presentation at the 2026 Colorado Wildland Fire Conference in Fort Collins entitled “Community Wildfire Risk and Fire Resilient Landscapes.” Just prior to his keynote, we had the opportunity to have a conversation about his work as a...
by FSEEE | Jan 12, 2026 | Dispatch, Community Fire Resilience
The Healthy Forests Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA) establishes a legal framework ostensibly designed to protect communities and watersheds from catastrophic wildfire. The legislation authorizes “hazardous fuels reduction projects” across National Forest and BLM lands....
by Joe Stone | May 13, 2024 | Community Fire Resilience, Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth
‘One of the most significant ecological crises facing land managers in the arid West’ A report published in January, Cheatgrass Invasions: History, Causes, Consequences, and Solutions, by Western Watershed Projects is the source of the above quote....
by Joe Stone | Nov 15, 2023 | Community Fire Resilience, Fire Truth, In Depth
While there’s no historical evidence that Nero “fiddled while Rome burned,” there’s been plenty of fiddling in our forests while homes and communities burn in the American West. Jack Cohen has not been fiddling. His decades-long research at Forest Service Fire...
by Joe Stone | May 25, 2023 | Community Fire Resilience, Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth
How a Community Planning Project Spawned a Forest Health Collaborative Christopher Ketcham’s guest column in the Fall 2022 edition of Forest News struck a chord with me. Ketcham’s column, excerpted from his book, This Land, reveals how forest health collaboratives...
