Satellites and drone swarms: The new high-tech quest to fight wildfires

From 2018 but relevant and revisit following a work meeting were it was discussed that hope is not a plan.“Strategy is not a science; it is an art of big-picture thought, communication, and constant adaptation.” warroom.armywarcollege.edu/articles/hop...

A new era of floods has arrived. America isn’t prepared.

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...

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.

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...

To save our trees, we must burn down our forests

"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.

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...

Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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. buff.ly/AXenBR2 #nmfire

“The Trump Administration seems hellbent on dismantling the system of checks and balances which are the pillars of a democratic society,” time.com/7266334/us-h...

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. 19thnews.org/2025/02/dei-...

They are simply doing what they said they were going to do.

One of those jobs that we hopefully never need to think about, because if we do that means something has gone badly wrong. But it’s also one of those jobs that someone needs to ensure is staffed appropriately to make sure something does not go badly wrong.

This film was made for and with the Fire and Music Project Find out more about the Fire and Music Project at fireandmusic.org/ youtu.be/COen2FiQqAc?...

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 reut.rs/3XjsY1t 1/7

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.

watching Alexis Coe on C-SPAN & when asked for recommendations of online reading, she endorsed @hcrichardson.bsky.social and @kevinmkruse.bsky.social www.c-span.org/program/wash...

“'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...