Shelby Majors
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Fire practitioner * Land management * Fan of travel, music, good food and drink, and time well spent
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So, what is peat exactly?
A brief introduction to peat soils, peat fossils, and moss piglets
https://open.substack.com/pub/peatpedia/p/so-what-is-peat-exactly?r=4umh3b&utm_medium=ios
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How indigenous practices can help protect forests
The Post followed cultural burning practices, an Indigenous tradition now permitted under California law and used to help protect forests from wildfires.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/interactive/2025/tribes-cultural-burning-california-wildfires/
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Don't Bring Us Into This
My name is Jess and I was a high school Literature teacher for 16 years until I decided to run as a Democrat in a rural, red district in Missouri. I bring you news and politics from Missouri and beyon...
https://open.substack.com/pub/jesspiper/p/dont-bring-us-into-this?r=4umh3b&utm_medium=ios
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https://www.usda.gov/about-usda/news/press-releases/2025/08/01/usda-opens-public-comment-period-department-reorganization-plan?fbclid=IwQ0xDSwL83dVleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqSPmkOLUdTay3SNolJNwIZgh-NcqhairO7G34uqEGDepD1z8i-DA-kg2bE1_aem_gZ7Ki9eCva0CtMLTkuk3aA
3 months ago
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Satellites and drone swarms: The new high-tech quest to fight wildfires
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From 2018 but relevant and revisit following a work meeting were it was discussed that hope is not a plan.âStrategy is not a science; it is an art of big-picture thought, communication, and constant adaptation.â
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HOPE IS NOT 'A' STRATEGY: IT'S THE ONLY STRATEGY
In "Hope is not a Strategy; It is the Only Strategy," Jeremy Weber shows how American grand strategy has depended on aspiration to drive change and overcome wicked problems. Today's strategy discourse...
https://warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/hope-not-strategy-strategy/amp/
3 months ago
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Disasterology: July 2025
This newsletter is a compilation of recent disaster ~things~ that I think are cool, important, or otherwise of interest to people who are intrigued with disaster (broadly defined).
https://open.substack.com/pub/disasterology/p/disasterology-july-2025?r=4umh3b
3 months ago
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A new era of floods has arrived. America isnât prepared.
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Evan Frost
4 months ago
Grand Canyon Lodge, the town of Jasper in Jasper NP, Sperry Chalet in Glacier NP -- these iconic structures were built in a different climate & not designed to survive the turbo-charged fires of the 21st century. We can only expect to see more of the same.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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An explosive Grand Canyon wildfire brings terror, loss and tough questions: âIt came like a freight trainâ
The decision to let a small blaze burn â before it suddenly erupted â has drawn scrutiny. Now those who love the remote North Rim are reckoning with the destruction
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/20/grand-canyon-dragon-bravo-fire
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Mike Flannigan
4 months ago
Area burned in Canada for 2025 is now at 5.6 M ha exceeding the total for the entire 2024 fire season. This fire season is not as bad as 2023 that had 9.37 M ha burned by July 12, 2023. However, 2025 is a very active year with 365 fires out of control and 2 months still left in the fire season.
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This map visualizes the 250+ million acres of public lands eligible for sale in the Senate budget reconciliation package. Map and analysis by The Wilderness Society using source data from BLM, USFS, USGS, NPS, and SENR reconciliation bill text as of June 16th 2025.
www.wilderness.org/articles/med...
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Tell your senators to kill the current reconciliation bill!
The Senate reconciliation package is a disturbing giveaway that will mandate the âdisposalâ of public lands across the western United States.
https://act.wilderness.org/a/senaterec-june25-web
5 months ago
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Here's why they are dismantling the FDA, NIH, and CDC
An honest answer to an honest question
https://open.substack.com/pub/mccormickmd/p/heres-why-they-are-dismantling-the?r=4umh3b
6 months ago
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7 months ago
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To save our trees, we must burn down our forests
7 months ago
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Meade Krosby
7 months ago
"De-extinction" is to the biodiversity crisis as geoengineering/carbon capture are to climate change. The false promise of magical techno fixes undermines the actions needed to actually address these problems - and will be exploited by bad actors to do just that.
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Renowned Minnesota wildlife photographer Jim Brandenburg dies at 79
Minnesota friends and photographers recalled the arresting work of Brandenburg, âthe da Vinci of wildlife photography.â
https://www.startribune.com/renown-minnesota-wildlife-photographer-jim-brandenburg-79-dies/601322879
7 months ago
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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trumpâs Advisers Shared on Signal
The administration has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to The Atlanticâs editor in chief.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/
8 months ago
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Murphy Woodhouse
8 months ago
The next time you hear someone argue for a suppression-first approach to wildfire with a straight face, please share this paper with them.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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A fire deficit persists across diverse North American forests despite recent increases in area burned - Nature Communications
Across many North American forests, recent years with exceptional area burned are not unprecedented when considering the multi-century perspective offered by fire-scarred trees. Nevertheless, abundant...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-56333-8
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Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isnât True.
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Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isnât True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the worldâs richest men slash aid for the worldâs poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/15/opinion/foreign-aid-cuts-impact.html?rsrc=flt&smid=bs-share
8 months ago
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Source New Mexico
8 months ago
NEW: Even as Forest Service officials laid out the acute risk of wildfire in the Southwest this season during a briefing with congressional staffers this week, they repeatedly refused to say how many employees were fired, a congressional aide told SourceNM.
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âStonewallingâ: Forest Service mum on firings during wildfire briefing for congressional staff ⢠Source New Mexico
Source New Mexico obtained slides and chats from a tense meeting this week between Forest Service officials and staffers for Southwest members of Congress.
https://buff.ly/AXenBR2
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âThe Trump Administration seems hellbent on dismantling the system of checks and balances which are the pillars of a democratic society,â
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U.S. Is Added to Human Rights Watchlist
The United States was added Sunday to the CIVICUS Monitor Watchlist, due to declining civil liberties.
https://time.com/7266334/us-human-rights-watchlist-civil-liberties/
8 months ago
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How Forest Service layoffs are hitting one Idaho lakeside town - Marketplace
In Valley County, Idaho, the Forest Service is the areaâs third largest employer. A union steward there reported nearly four dozen layoffs.
https://www.marketplace.org/2025/03/04/forest-service-layoffs-trump-mountain-west/
8 months ago
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Mass firings cut the muscle not the fat - Writers On The Range
The stories are heartbreaking. US Forest Service, National Park Service and other federal workers â some of them within weeks...
https://writersontherange.org/mass-firings-cut-the-muscle-not-the-fat/
8 months ago
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Jessica Kutz
8 months ago
Two years ago I wrote about a women's firefighting bootcamp in Yosemite National park, where I interviewed young women thrilled to fight fires. Today I published a story about how all such initiatives have been cancelled under the Trump Administration.
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âItâs all been scrappedâ: Women in wildland firefighting bootcamps canceled after DEI cuts
Women already had an intimidating entry point to the male-dominated field. Trump's orders to dismantle DEI in the federal government could hurt years of progress.
https://19thnews.org/2025/02/dei-women-wildland-firefighting-bootcamps-canceled/
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The Bully-in-Chief Targets an Ally
Zelenskyy resists and refuses to kiss the ring
https://open.substack.com/pub/steady/p/the-bully-in-chief-targets-an-ally?r=4umh3b
8 months ago
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Dr. Samantha Montano
8 months ago
They are simply doing what they said they were going to do.
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Don Moynihan
8 months ago
One of those jobs that we hopefully never need to think about, because if we do that means something has gone badly wrong. But itâs also one of those jobs that someone needs to ensure is staffed appropriately to make sure something does not go badly wrong.
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This film was made for and with the Fire and Music Project Find out more about the Fire and Music Project at
fireandmusic.org/
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A Walk to the Fire's Edge
YouTube video by Fire and Music Project
https://youtu.be/COen2FiQqAc?si=zb9hQox5C9BPyOGD
8 months ago
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Where did billions in climate and infrastructure funding go? Search our map by ZIP code.
From clean energy projects to bridges, this interactive tool shows what projects lawmakers announced in your neighborhood.
https://grist.org/accountability/climate-infrastructure-ira-bil-map-tool/
8 months ago
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Reuters
8 months ago
Scientists at a federal laboratory in Montana that has focused on fire for decades are increasingly concerned about wildfires that spread to population centers as Americans build communities ever closer to forests
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Montana scientists alarmed by wildfires encroaching on US towns
Scientists at a federal laboratory in Montana that has focused on fire for decades are increasingly concerned about wildfires that spread to population centers as Americans build communities ever closer to forests.
https://reut.rs/3XjsY1t
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February 26, 2025
This morning, Office of Management and Budget director Russell Vought and Office of Personnel Management acting director Charles Ezell sent a memo to the heads of departments and agencies.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-26-2025?r=4umh3b
8 months ago
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Cruel and Usual: Republicans Prepare to Gut Medicaid
And their own supporters will be among the biggest victims
https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/cruel-and-usual-republicans-prepare?r=4umh3b
8 months ago
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Trump's America Is in a Free FallâNot a Slippery Slopeâto Tyranny
He is instilling fear not just among lawmakers but every sector of society that dares to criticize him or hold him accountable
https://open.substack.com/pub/theunpopulist/p/trumps-america-is-in-a-free-fallnot?r=4umh3b
8 months ago
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Playing at âEfficiencyâ - Flathead Beacon
Elon Musk reminds me of a little boy I knew who liked to pull the wings off flies just for fun. He now runs the âDepartment of Government Efficiencyâ which was created by an Executive Order issued by ...
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2025/02/11/playing-at-efficiency/
8 months ago
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Mike Drucker
9 months ago
Government efficiency is when every federal agency has to send a daily emergency email to its workers telling them to ignore another daily email from a different department trying to fire them without knowing what their jobs are.
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DOGE Is Working on Software That Automates the Firing of Government Workers
Operatives working for Elon Muskâs DOGE appear to be editing the code of AutoRIFâsoftware designed by the Defense Department that could assist in mass firings of federal workers, sources tell WIRED.
https://www.wired.com/story/doge-autorif-mass-firing-government-workers/
9 months ago
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February 25, 2025
On Friday, February 21, former transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg posted: âA defining policy battle is about to come to a head in this country.
https://open.substack.com/pub/heathercoxrichardson/p/february-25-2025?r=4umh3b
9 months ago
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Trump 2.0: an assault on science anywhere is an assault on science everywhere
US President Donald Trump is taking a wrecking ball to science and to international institutions. The global research community must take a stand against these attacks.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-00562-w
9 months ago
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The fire paradox: Tree-ring data shows wildfire activity has declined, not increased | University of Arizona News
Contrary to what people might think, North American forests are burning less, not more, finds a new study co-authored by U of A fire ecologist Donald Falk. Researchers say the absence of fire can cont...
https://news.arizona.edu/news/fire-paradox-tree-ring-data-shows-wildfire-activity-has-declined-not-increased?publication=20250225
9 months ago
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AFE's Statement on Recent US Federal Actions: â Association for Fire Ecology
We are dedicated to supporting the wildland fire community and making it clear that the global fire crisis will not be solved by lack of funding, resources, or people. Click to read AFEâs statement on...
https://fireecology.org/news/afe-statement-federal-actions
9 months ago
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Public Lands Firings Hurt Hunters and Anglers
Late last week the Trump administration fired more than 5,000 federal employees within the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service (totaling 10% of the USFS staff).
https://www.backcountryhunters.org/public_lands_firings_hurt_hunters_and_anglers?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR0WHytLapLVYXzB2nMtvrdYUE_VJxuEeZr5BxMqo_w-bcdPErGw2cTe500_aem_G9qz5ruopLMcah4SY5FbvQ#/462/
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A Letter From The Inside: Unjustified Terminations.
The following is a letter sent to me by a manager in the Forest Service: đ
https://open.substack.com/pub/thehotshotwakeup/p/a-letter-from-the-inside-unjustified?r=4umh3b
9 months ago
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The Fight for Wild Lands: Part 1
As organizers prepare for the biennial Rally for Public Lands, the conservation world faces down a changing climate, an administration determined to dismantle environmental protections, and its own in...
https://mountainjournal.org/fight-for-public-lands-part-1-conservation-world?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1rFYpUgmweuWOziSh6hhl933sKL-qzQMcvNJ1oC9fWUURVQj2de49F86w_aem_z_R63QtQnlQrGxgdbzG7EA
9 months ago
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Joe Paulson
9 months ago
watching Alexis Coe on C-SPAN & when asked for recommendations of online reading, she endorsed
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www.c-span.org/program/wash...
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The Death of Government Expertise
Why Trump and Musk are on a firing spree
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/career-civil-servant-end/681712/
9 months ago
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Evan Frost
9 months ago
â'We will be more vulnerable to a catastrophic fire in the future as a result of not being able to do the prescribed burns,' a federal firefighter with direct knowledge of the situation said."
www.propublica.org/article/trum...
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How Trumpâs Federal Funding and Hiring Freezes Are Leaving America Vulnerable to Catastrophic Wildfire
Uncertainty over funding and hiring stemming from the presidentâs executive orders has limited wildfire training and postponed work to reduce flammable vegetation. It has also led some firefighters to...
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-funding-freeze-wildfire-season
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Trump's hiring freeze may impact wildland firefighters
The 2025 federal hiring freeze caused countless wildland firefighters to worry about their jobs. Here's how USDA responded.
https://wildfiretoday.com/2025/01/24/wildland-firefighters-affected-trump-hiring-freeze-federal-usfs/?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR1Klt6V-U8j9SqH-9-mD9TBz2bTKBukTfp2zBLWqhF8Ky5M9K_0ZpikhBw_aem_tWYTusAyM9AesDvmmFB47w
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