TNG and the Williams Lake tribune with some rare and refreshingly sane coverage & commentary on BC's most recent title case. wltribune.com/2025/11/07/c...

I learned so much this summer from so many people, and now it's time to take a rest. Looking forward to a winter of learning and working hard to make things better in the small ways I can.

Its always a pleasure to give back to an organization that contributes so much to our field. Support NiCHE! @nichecanada.bsky.social fundrazr.com/niche2025?re...

you know academia is truly a dumpster fire when a policy paper is behind such a pricy paywall that the policy professionals its allegedly aimed at at don't have enough budget to access it. Good job everyone keep up the good work.

This morning when I opened up NASA FIRMS to check for heat signatures, I recieved an error message that stated that information was no longer being regularly updated due to federal funding constraints. Has anyone else sees this? Any additional info? #wildfire

The Gaurdian is really on a wildfire smoke kick, and I'm here for it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Delighted that this work continues to find new audiences, and (although purely coincidental) feels very appropriate coming out on the last day of my last fire season deployment. Thank you for hosting me, and for the work of your wonderful editorial team @envhistnow.bsky.social !

Sentinel 2 images from the confluence of the Mackenzie and the Liard. Left: Some serious fire behaviour from sept 9. Right: Autumn colours on the boreal from Sept 10 -- and an orange retardant line from a small lake (centre of the image).

Pine...uh....finds a way

The impacts of wildfire smoke (and climate change generally) can be amorphous and hard to trace, but here the Guardian has accomplished a story that pins them to the page. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I can't take my eyes off these fires in the west of the Cariboo region. Its the summer that won't end out there, despite COLD overnight temperatures and shortening days. Look at this one chugging through a cutblock -- open flame visible from satellite (sept 7).

I haven't had much cause to bust out my corsi-rosenthal box yet this summer, but today its making short work of the 160 AQI outside (currently 15 in my office).

Sentinel 2 captured some truly unhinged fire behaviour yesterday. When you can see an organized flame front from space, its safe to say that our fire behaviour is "aggressive."

Also from August 30 -- Sentinel captured the plume coming up from SS104 burning near Fort Provenance, NWT, as it punched up into the atmosphere.

Watching smoke from space is one thing -- watching fire is another. This is a capture from Aug 30, and is of the fire burning north of Tsacha Lake in BC. Flames are visible from Sentinel's passover -- you can see them burning in the patch of green in the top left.

A recovering academic moment of realization today: I'm developing a new course for my organization and not only am I getting paid to write the content but I have access to a team of 3 subject matter experts and am working directly with an adult learning professional. Academia, take notes.

ditnikkwun / ᑔᐪᘆᐟᐠᗒᐣ / Castilleja miniata

Wildfire smoke is more deadly than other sources of PM 2.5. I originally read about this study in the Guardian today, but here's the original paper. www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Orange sun and ash falling on Vancouver Island last night was a disorienting experience.

Should be taking the day off work, but then I thought: what if I could see the Wesley Ridge fire from space? Sentinel imagery from yesterday (Jul 31)

You can read about the background behind this article and the research that led to it in @micaamy.bsky.social and John's post on our site, "Writing Health and History During a Global Pandemic" - niche-canada.org/2021/05/10/w... #envhist #histmed #mininghistory

It was MINING & ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE week in my Canadian #envhist seminar today. Below is a short thread about what we read and watched ⛏️⚖️🧵

Was looking at the satellite today and...is this just a line of retardant on the south flank of this fire? For context, that's the Mackenzie River to the east, and Fort Simpson to the North - Dencho region wildfire in NWT.

In our latest review, @msbeauli.bsky.social examines @micaamy.bsky.social's The Weight of Gold: Mining and the Environment in Ontario, Canada, 1909-1929 ( @unvpress.bsky.social 2023) niche-canada.org/2025/07/29/r... #envhist #mininghistory #cdnhist #ontario #bookreview

How do different forestry practices impact fire behaviour? Its complicated. youtu.be/1COXneXdkl4?...

What a generous and lovely review of my book to greet me at my desk this morning! Thank you @msbeauli.bsky.social, @nichecanada.bsky.social and @peterastevens.bsky.social 🤗

So far my season has been a study in contrasts. Pic on the right is on treaty 8 as far to the north as you can get in BC. Pic on the left is on Syilx land almost at the 49th parallel. Muskeg and black spruce vs. semi-arid pine and grassland.

Got to look at an open pit mine and a forest fire today and it also happened to be my birthday

Opinion pieces on smoke finding their way into the Globe and Mail today. www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

2 days apart - fire along the Nelson River in northern Manitoba

Oh look the thing I said would happen is happening. www.cbc.ca/news/world/c...

The second speaker at our upcoming webinar will be Dr. Sarah Henderson! Sarah is the scientific director of Environmental Health Services at BCCDC and of the National Collaborating Centre for Environmental Health (NCCEH). Register now! us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Fire up here burns and smoulders deep into the forest floor, crawling through the dry muskeg. I could watch it work all day.

Proud of my team and the work the crews done here in Treaty 8 over the last 2 weeks. And especially proud of Beau in ops, who is the star of this latest operational update youtu.be/S-GfbeZ_UCc?...

Attention everyone I found my first cloudberries on a fire line up here in treaty 8. best day ever

A summary of how some big minds have been thinking through transnational smoke. #wildfire www.mcgilldaily.com/2025/06/smok...

Currently sitting on a peat fire and was just talking to the team today about how a it smells different than the spruce and pine fires we have a little further south. theconversation.com/how-high-lat...

Sometimes I think about how I went from a corner office on the top floor of an academic institution -> to working out of a packed & smoky atco trailer and yet have never been so happy or intellectually fulfilled at work #phdlife #altac

We've had a stream of rain across much of the north, but many of our fires remain just outside its limits. Here's a beautiful example of fires burning just to north of a band of clouds near BC's northern border (sentinel, 17 june)

that fire season feeling where I suddenly have 3 full time jobs

Research that hits close to home. "Wildfire in the Fraser River basin explained up to 16.3 % of variance in water quality, & fires burning closer to major waterways had immediate influence on water quality, while farther away wildfires had a delayed influence." doi.org/10.1016/j.sc... #wildfire

Recent rain has made a big difference up here this week -- but it hasn't reached the Fort Nelson area, as evident by the FIRMS hotspot data. Those fires are still active and moving around.

Progress update on my quest to become a plane dad in 2025: I successfully ID'd our skimmer fleet this week by auditory signal alone.

We once thought smoke from wildland fires was no big deal because it was "natural." However, over the last 20 years or so, I can't think of one bit of science that hasn't shown urgent and increasing concern about the risk of smoke exposure. 1/

Here's a story for yer dads www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Next time we're having beer together, ask me about the paperwork nightmare created by multi-year holdover fires, my #envhist and #envhum friends. Fire doesn't respect jurisdictional boundaries, and it doesn't follow the fiscal year cycles either.

Nice work from the video team on work that got done a bit earlier this season. #prescribedfire youtu.be/sKxJa2oqIWg?...

I loved this story from @thenarwhal.ca today on the Kainai Nation's new fire guardians program. Gorgeous photographs! #prescribedfire #goodfire thenarwhal.ca/kainai-fire-...

More transient wildfire smoke coverage. Amazing that the air quality in my office a few hundred km from the fires could be comparable to Bern today www.iqair.com/newsroom/eur...

Smoke breached the rockies last night with the changing winds and came into town for the first time this summer - AQI of 200 in my office this morning.