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Communicating about Fire

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Limited availability of health risk communication related to community smoke exposure from prescribed burns in the United States: a review

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

Prescribed burns are used to maintain wildland ecosystems and decrease fuel loads and associated wildfire hazard. Prescribed burns may produce enough smoke to cause adverse health outcomes. The aim of this review is to understand what communication materials exist for disseminating health risk information related to prescribed burn smoke and challenges to developing such communication.

Using focus groups for knowledge sharing: Tracking emerging pandemic impacts on USFS wildland fire operations

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

In early 2020 the US Forest Service (USFS) recognized the need to gather real-time information from its wildland fire management personnel about their challenges and adaptations during the unfolding COVID-19 pandemic. The USFS conducted 194 virtual focus groups to address these concerns, over 32 weeks from March 2020 to October 2020.

Forest fire management, funding dynamics, and research in the burning frontier: A comprehensive review

Year of Publication
2024
Publication Type

We indexed 8,970 scientific publications on forest fires in order to bridge the gap between research and policy discussions on forest fires. Journal articles and conference papers dominated the literature, with an emphasis on environmental science, agricultural and biological sciences, earth and planetary sciences, engineering, and computer science.

Solastalgia to Soliphilia: Cultural Fire, Climate Change, and Indigenous Healing

Year of Publication
2023
Publication Type

Wildly destructive fires, wind driven through unmanaged and untended lands, take lives and homes and the solace of familiar places. Ash blankets the remains, trauma takes hold, but even when the smoke clears and communities begin to heal, there is a loss beyond words. These wildfires reveal the ways many are lacking relationships with the land.