by FSEEE | Aug 16, 2026 | Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth
As Westerners cope with the smoke and flames of another record-setting fire season, the media serves up dramatic videos of various active wildfires. Much of this footage focuses on dramatic images of crown fires burning through forest canopies, suggesting these fires...
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 | Jul 10, 2026 | In Depth, In the News
A single logging project in western Oregon has become the test case for a legal theory that, if it holds up in court, could put the management of hundreds of millions of acres of federal public land in question. Cascadia Wildlands, a Eugene-based grassroots...
by Joe Stone | Feb 3, 2026 | In Depth, Fire Science, Fire Truth
Beetle-kill trees make an easy target in the rush to defend our forests and communities from wildfire. The trees are dead and brown, so they must be a fire hazard, especially in today’s unnaturally dense forests. Therefore, we need to cut the trees and salvage...
by Joe Stone | Nov 1, 2025 | Fire Science, Fire Truth, In Depth
Piñon-juniper woodlands may not inspire the kind of awe that people experience among the redwoods of California or the old-growth Douglas-fir trees of the Pacific Northwest, but piñon-juniper forests are one of the most extensive ecosystems in western North America...
