A story map, produced by @firesciencegov, highlights the real-world impacts & accomplishments from the FSEN. Our section focuses on the Risk-Informed Wildfire Management hot topic page we developed as a rapid response to a request from the Rocky Mountain Research Station.

New article alert 🚨 for the #FireEcology Journal! Bby John P. Roccaforte, David W. Huffman, Kyle C. Rodman, Thomas A. Heinlein, Joseph E. Crouse, and Peter Z. Fulé #SNFECO 🔥 Read it here: ow.ly/5Poa50Xim7K

a slow-motion mass murder taking place right in front of our eyes, with the collusion of elites everywhere #GatesMemo

Some nice media exposure on our new paper published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social pertaining to expanding area burned by high severity wildfire. 🌍🔥 Thank you, @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social, for raising awareness about this important paper. Tagging bsky co-author @coopecology.bsky.social.

My team has been working on a report that provides policymakers with clear situational awareness on the wildfire situation in California. I'm so proud of the work product we have produced.

We’re not going to sci-comm our way out of federal attacks on science, but it’s also never been more important for the public to understand the value of our science and the threats that face it. The media offers scientists a megaphone for doing this. Come learn how to use it effectively.👇🏼

The North Carolina legislature is set to pass a new Trump-inspired gerrymandered congressional map. The move is likely to give Republicans nearly 80 percent of US House seats in an otherwise closely divided swing state where Trump won 51 percent of the vote in 2024.

If you pay attention, ecological collapse is happening everywhere, in real time. 1/ Like here: Starved of water, taken down by insects, burned by repeated, abnormally intense wildfires, much of the ponderosa forest is turning into permanent grass & shrublands. orionmagazine.org/article/twil...

“After detailed inspections, they found only 2% met or came close to meeting state standards for reducing fire risk.” 🔥

As wildfires scorch California, should insurers divest from fossil fuels? www.pressdemocrat.com/2025/10/19/i...

Excellent work led by @ttkeller.bsky.social and important for stewarding forests w/ high-severity #fire regimes @esajournals.bsky.social @uwmadscience.bsky.social

Some media exposure for our new paper on whitebark pine. 🧪🌍 Thanks to @mongabay.com journalist @john-cannon.bsky.social for the great reporting.

Yet another reminder that 1) wildfire is inevitable and 2) if we don’t implement proactive wildfire management actions (such as prescribed fire), our forests are toast. 🔥

The climate crisis is fuelling extreme fires across the planet theconversation.com/the-climate-...

Holy wow, +3.5 ppm CO₂ last year, up from +2.4 ppm average the past decade, and +0.6 ppm in the 1960s. It gets scarier the closer you look at it. All this is a stress test for the planet, and it's buckling. Two big reasons for the massive increase: wildfires, and the ocean sinks are shutting down.

Global wildfires burned an area of land larger than India in 2024 "the 2024-25 wildfire season drove more than 8bn tonnes of CO2 emissions" ... which will translate into around $1.5 TRILLION in global societal costs (in net present value) www.carbonbrief.org/global-wildf...

Unfortunately, on federal lands this year we are missing another prescribed fire window because of the government shutdown. We are frittering away opportunity every time we put up additional roadblocks to the use of prescribed fire.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o... “It is unambiguous and it is clear climate change is playing a role. These aren’t just bigger fires, they’re fires occurring under increasingly extreme weather conditions that make them unstoppable.”

From Realtor's 2025 Housing and Climate Risk Report: US homes at "severe or extreme" #climaterisk: Flood: 6% of homes ($3.4 tr in value, inc. $1 tr outside FEMA flood zones so mostly uninsured) Wind: 18% of homes ($8 tr) Wildfire: 5.6% ($3 tr) www.realtor.com/research/cli...

1/4 Please see our new paper just published in Global Change Biology: “Intensifying fire season aridity portends ongoing expansion of severe wildfire in western US forests”. 🧪🌍🔥

Our paper takes a close look at managing designated wilderness in an era of unprecedented change. Please check it out. A great achievement by lead author @clareboe.bsky.social! 🧪🌍🔥

New Science Advances paper on the feedback loop between loss of snow feeding more wildfire, and wildfire resulting in earlier snowmelt. As to latter, in snow obs, under average conditions, snow melts earlier during 1st-yr postfire in 99%(!) of western snow zones. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

What is the cost of wildfire, windthrow and bark beetles for Europe’s forestry? We estimate that disturbances reduce Europe’s forest value by €115 bn, more than doubling to €247 bn under severe climate change. Led by @johannesmohr.bsky.social, out in @natclimate.nature.com doi.org/10.1038/s415...

The California Fire Science Consortium released a research brief based on our article "Untrammeling the wilderness: restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire." Check it out! 🧪🔥

New paper by Garret Meigs and friends: "Big trees burning: Divergent wildfire effects on large trees in open- vs closed-canopy forests" From my read, one of the key take home messages is that dense forests, even if large trees are present, are still burning with a lot of high-severity effects🧪🌎🔥

Aha look who's back, it's @terriblemapshq.bsky.social !

Big tobacco launched the effort to undermine science decades ago, and fossil industries eagerly grabbed the baton. Now, enabled by fossil funded politicians, corrupt judges and misguided media focus on false balance, denialism is now part of official U.S. government policy. Good luck, America ...

It is almost as if all the lawsuits filed over the last few decades that effectively stopped USFS management activities contributed to the extensive forest loss in the southern Sierra and elsewhere …

The Garnet Fire has burned through a place I have worked since 2002. A place I hold dear. We knew this wasn't a matter of if, but when. Unfortunately the leadership on the Sierra National Forest didn't have the same urgency that we did. My eulogy for Teakettle. www.hurteaulab.org/blog/a-eulog...

"...ferocious fire in recent years, fueled by climate change, has proved fatal to the trees that experts once thought were impervious to flame. An estimated 20% of the world’s mature giant sequoias have died in the last decade due to severe wildfires..."

New in Global Change Biology: Hydroclimatic rebound—wet periods fueling vegetation growth, followed by rapid drying—drives extreme fires in California’s non-forested biomes. Findings improve early warning & fire forecasts. 🔗 doi.org/10.1111/gcb....

Deadly wildfires that hit Spain and Portugal last month were 40 TIMES more likely because of the impacts of the climate crisis. #ThisIsClimateChange. Find out more here:

new paper from my lab @cudenverclas.bsky.social in @natclimate.nature.com, led by @sarahnalley.bsky.social! Dragonflies with dark mating ornaments on their wings are disappearing from parts of the United States that have had more warming and wildfire over the last 40 years 🧪🌍🐙 rdcu.be/eFm7e

#WhitebarkPine In The #US Projected To Experience An 80% Reduction In #Climatically Suitable Area By The Mid-21st Century - doi.org/10.1088/1748... - #GIS #spatial #mapping #spatialanalysis #model #PNW #USWest #Canada #threatened #ESA #disease #pinebeetle #climatechange #elevation #ecology #range

This is well researched. But I bristle at the idea of this as a “scientific standoff.” A hallmark of science is that there are almost always contrary paradigms challenging the dominant one. But you have to know when the weight of evidence is on different planets. news.mongabay.com/2025/08/old-...

We have a new paper developing methods for looking at bird-fire macroecology. What’s most fascinating to me is that the magnitude *and* direction of fire effects can vary enormously across a species range. Stationarity is dead!! Long live non-stationarity!! doi.org/10.1002/fee....

🔥 A record summer of blazes in Europe shows how governments and local communities can’t keep up with brutal fire conditions exacerbated by climate change story via @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

For context, this isn't just another tree: whitebark pine is vital to high-elevation ecosystems in western North America. Its seeds provide energy-dense food for grizzlies and other animals, it helps retain snowpack to slow runoff and erosion, and it's culturally important to Indigenous communities.

Forest treatments work to reduce wildfire risk to carbon storage, and also to hot drought mortality. We need more treatments, and we need them now, but also, we need them to be ongoing into the future.🧪🔥 www.frontiersin.org/journals/for...

very nice article by @afreedma.bsky.social at @cnn.com about our comment on the DOE report www.cnn.com/2025/09/02/c...

The DOE's climate report is a sham, with hand-picked contrarian experts and cherry-picked data that ignores 99% of the scientific literature. by @andrewdessler.com www.realclearscience.com/2025/09/03/t...

One more thing: The fire severity data used to conduct this study can be downloaded here. This is a gridded dataset of satellite-derived fire severity and pre-fire NDVI for all fires in the western US that burned from 1985 to 2022. 🔥🌍🧪 #OpenScience

Forgot to add the requisite tags: 🧪🌍#macroecology

New paper alert (thread)! "Whitebark pine [WBP] in the United States projected to experience an 80% reduction in climatically suitable area by the mid-21st century" In this paper, we modeled WBP climatic suitability under reference period (1961-1990) and mid-21st century climate 1/6

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Thank you @nohaggerty.bsky.social for filling in today with a great Boiling Point. All about John Muir's role in the history of catastrophic Western fire suppression, starting with his famous trip to Yosemite with Teddy Roosevelt: www.latimes.com/environment/...

#GlacierNationalPark #PublicLandsRock

Super thoughtful research on the impact of mitigation strategies for reducing wildfire risk from @gollnerfire.bsky.social team. Good news: building level mitigation can do a lot. Bad news: #1 factor is structure density (SSD below) - hard to change and may get worse. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Tons of potential with this new product! The authors present the "Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG): a database that combines fuel treatment data from the US Forest Service and US Department of the Interior systems of record, making them easily accessible and interpretable"🔥

✅ We have a new study out this week, which projects changes in cloud-to-ground (CG) lightning days across the Western United States, along with the associated risk of lightning-ignited wildfires (LIW). + #OpenAccess Paper (@agu.org): doi.org/10.1029/2025... + Summary: news.wsu.edu/press-releas...