Darcy Hammond
@dhhammond.bsky.social
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Fire Science | Ecology | Post-fire landscapes 🌲🔥🌱🌲 🏞 Opinions are my own. She/her 🏳️🌈
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
14 days ago
RMRS Forest Service Research and Development presents a series of Deep Dive Panel Discussions intended for fire, fuels, and land managers on critical topics associated with fuels and fire management. Register here:
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Fire and Fuels Deep-Dive Science Sessions | Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
25 days ago
How effective are landscape scale fuel treatments? Today we're revisiting this brief, published in collaboration with the Rocky Mountain Research Station. Read the full publication on our website:
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
about 2 months ago
Early bird registration for "Adapting Together" closes December 31st, and the poster submission deadline is this Friday! Register now or visit the website to learn more:
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Darcy Hammond
Association for Fire Ecology
2 months ago
#FireCon2025
is officially underway! Thank you everyone who joined us at the welcome social last night and thank you to everyone attending and/or presenting at the concurrent sessions and plenary session today! We are looking forward to all the exciting things happening this week 🔥
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
4 months ago
Mark your calendars for a joint webinar, presented with the Whitebark Pine Ecosystem Foundation, on November 18th at 12pm MST. Josh Beisel will present findings from his work studying Whitebark pine ecology within the treeline ecotone of the Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness, MT/ID.
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
4 months ago
Join us and our fellow exchanges for a special session and fire circle at the International Fire Ecology & Management Congress in New Orleans! In addition to these presentations, we'll be at the exhibit hall with a booth all week. Learn more about our AFE plans here:
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
4 months ago
Find our October 2025 Newsletter in your inboxes now! In this edition, details about an upcoming webinar we are jointly hosting with the Whitebark Pine Foundation on November 18th. Read the newsletter here:
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
5 months ago
September newsletter is out now! Find our newly published 2024 @firescience.gov Field Trip Summary, recent research briefs, and more. Read it or subscribe here:
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
5 months ago
Women in Wildland Fire Training available October 23–26th, at Lubrecht Experimental Forest (MT). Applications are due by September 24th. This training is for those new to wildland fire careers, offering mentorship, and foundational skills in an inclusive environment. Learn more:
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Darcy Hammond
GrumpyUncleSean🔥
6 months ago
Important new paper by Luke Collins and colleagues: "Extremely large fires shape fire severity patterns across the diverse forests of British Columbia [BC], Canada" Key findings: 1. Fires in BC have increased in size from 1986-2021 2. Bigger fires have larger patches of high-severity fire 🧪🌍🔥
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Extremely large fires shape fire severity patterns across the diverse forests of British Columbia, Canada
Warming and drying conditions are driving increases in wildfire size and annual area burned across the forests of British Columbia, Canada. The impact of increasing fire activity on these forests rem...
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.70364
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
6 months ago
Prescribed fire is an important tool for management of many ecosystems, but often there is a gap between desired and actual useage. We spoke to individuals representing three different perspectives on this issue, exploring the barriers to implementing prescribed fire in the region.
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
6 months ago
Did you know there are nine experimental forests and demonstration areas within the Northern Rockies region? Explore our Experimental Forest webpage to learn more about each of these nine areas.
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Darcy Hammond
Ella Plumanns Pouton
7 months ago
🔥 Hot off the press ! 🔥 Originally “sparked” from a conversation between
@sarahmccg.bsky.social
, Luke Collins ,
@brian-j-harvey.bsky.social
, Meg Krawchuk and I.
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Darcy Hammond
Matt Jones
8 months ago
Journal of
#Pyrogeography
has launched this week - we warmly welcome your submissions! We cover landscape
#fire
interactions with
#climate
,
#ecosystems
, and
#society
and welcome studies from diverse research fields spanning the natural and social sciences.
www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
7 months ago
Catch the latest edition of the TK & Fire Newsletter, featuring the work of Monroe Fox. Read the July edition and subscribe to future updates on our website.
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
7 months ago
Check out the Effects of Repeated Fire Hot Topic page. Understanding the potential impacts of previous fires on the characteristics of subsequent fires is important in informing land management decisions, developing fuel management strategies, and allocating fire-fighting resources.
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Darcy Hammond
Marshall Burke
7 months ago
Does prescribed burning reduce overall smoke from wildfire? We have 2 new papers that try to quantify. Answer: each acre Rx burned yields ≥3x more reduction in future wildfire smoke than is emitted in the Rx burn. But can take years to realize benefits.
www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescri...
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smoke impacts of prescribed burning — ECHO: Environmental Change and Human Outcomes Lab | Stanford University
Yes, it almost certainly does, but benefits in terms of net smoke reductions take a few years to be realized. By: Marshall Burke Wildfire smoke is a rapidly growing environmental health haz...
https://www.stanfordecholab.com/blog/prescribed-burn-benefits
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Mike Dettinger
7 months ago
Prescribed fires reduced subsequent 2020 wildfire burn severity by -16% in the western US. Rx fire treatments led to a net reduction of -14% in smoke emissions, as sum from treatment-plus-subsequent-wildfire.
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Darcy Hammond
GrumpyUncleSean🔥
7 months ago
1/4 Our research team just published a new paper: "Aspen impedes wildland fire spread in southwestern United States landscapes". Aspen forests are thought to be more resistant to burning compared to conifer forests, but this has not been well studied. 🧪🔥
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Aspen impedes wildfire spread in southwestern United States landscapes
Aspen (Populus tremuloides) forests are generally thought to impede fire spread, yet the extent of this effect is not well quantified in relation to other vegetation types. We examined the influence ...
https://doi.org/10.1002/eap.70061
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Darcy Hammond
Kerryn Little
7 months ago
Does your research involve fire and shrub fuels? 🔥🌿 Please submit to our special session: "Shrubland fuels and their fire behaviour modelling challenges" at the 11th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, New Orleans! Abstracts due soon-15th July!
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Darcy Hammond
Matt Jones
7 months ago
🌳 🔥 🌎 Our new paper: The extreme fire-prone
#weather
underpinning some of the worst
#wildfire
episodes this century has become more than twice as likely due to
#climate
change—a trend now evident across much of the world's tropical and mid-latitude
#forests
.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Climate change has increased the odds of extreme regional forest fire years globally - Nature Communications
The authors show that extreme fire years in global forests align with rare fire weather extremes. Climate change has made such extremes 88-152% more probable. These findings highlight the need for act...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-61608-1
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Michael de Yoanna
7 months ago
Should we suppress wildfires ‘as swiftly as possible?’ With 2025 season well underway, scholars weigh in. From the Mountain West News Bureau's
@murphywoodhouse.bsky.social
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@boisestatepublicradio.org
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www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/...
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Should we suppress wildfires ‘as swiftly as possible?’ With 2025 season well underway, scholars weigh in
The Forest Service's new chief recently published a letter that called for wildfires to be suppressed "as swiftly as possible." That may sound prudent to many, but it raised eyebrows among some who st...
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/environment/2025-07-10/suppression-wildfires-forest-service-tom-schultz-stephen-pyne
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
7 months ago
July newsletter is in your inbox! This month's edition includes a new video from JFSP explaining the Fire Science Exchange Network - and more! Watch the video here:
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
7 months ago
The JFSP Notice of Funding Opportunity Announcements are now open! Proposals are due Sept. 18th. If you are applying to do research in the Northern Rockies we strongly encourage you to reach out to us for a letter of support via this link:
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So thankful for all the great conversations that were had this week, and a big shoutout to
@intertribal-tc.bsky.social
for putting on this symposium and to the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation for being fantastic hosts!
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8 months ago
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
9 months ago
Don't forget to register for our webinars on the Behave7 fire modeling system this week! We will discuss how Behave v7 differs from BehavePlus v6. These webinars are aimed at different users so check the details to see which is best suited for you. Register here:
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
9 months ago
May is Wildfire Awareness Month! Our Public Perspectives of Fire Management page (developed with USFS RMRS) offers research and tools to help understand the social issues that managers encounter in fire management and provide potential ways to address those issues. Check it out:
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@nrfirescience.bsky.social
is hosting two webinars on the newly released Behave7 fire modeling program! Come hear from the RMRS development leads on what's new with this update, some demos, and what's next:
nrfirescience.org/event-group/...
9 months ago
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
9 months ago
How are Student Fire Associations contributing to workforce development and educating the next generation of fire and fuels professionals? In the latest installment of our "Perspectives" series, we spoke with students @umontana and @uidaho to find out:
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Darcy Hammond
Association for Fire Ecology
9 months ago
New article alert 🚨 for the
#FireEcology
Journal! By Nicholas A. Povak,
@susanprichard.bsky.social
, Paul F. Hessburg, Vivian Griffey, R. Brion Salter, Tucker J. Furniss,
@ginarosa.bsky.social
&
@firebobbc.bsky.social
#SNFECO
🔥
@tmtspringer.bsky.social
Read it here:
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Darcy Hammond
Association for Fire Ecology
9 months ago
NEW EPISODE of
#FireEcology
Chats! 🔥🎙️ Bob Keane joins Gina Beebe and Lauren Pile Knapp to discuss using herbivory as a supplement to prescribed fire in areas with limitations.
#SNFECO
🐐 Listen and read the research highlight here:
fireecology.org/feco-podcast...
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Darcy Hammond
Murphy Woodhouse
10 months ago
I’ve been reporting on the National Firefighting Registry for Cancer for two years. I was devastated by its shutdown, but am proud of the reporting I’ve done on it. Please listen.
www.boisestatepublicradio.org/show/idaho-m...
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Firefighter cancer research put on pause in wake of federal layoffs
The National Firefighter Registry is perhaps the most ambitious effort to date to understand the connection between firefighting and cancer.
https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/show/idaho-matters/2025-04-22/firefighter-cancer-research-federal-layoffs
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Darcy Hammond
Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D.
9 months ago
🚨 Cool new project alert 🚨 WE- you, me, everyone- need to work together to get important science messages out to people. 4 artists & 3 scientists collab'd on these posters. We hope YOU will put them out in your community. Each poster comes w/info about each topic. Get 'em
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Darcy Hammond
North Atlantic Fire Science Exchange
9 months ago
Check out the latest U.S. Monthly Drought Outlook, which shows the drought tendency for the month of May.
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#Drought
#FireWeather
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
9 months ago
Mark your calendars for two upcoming webinars on the Behave7 fire modeling system. We will discuss how Behave v7 differs from BehavePlus v6. These webinars are aimed at different users of the modeling system so check the details to see which is best suited for you. Register here:
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So excited to have west coast PWHL teams now!
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
10 months ago
Have you visited our Hot Topics webpages yet? You'll find a collection of resources related to important fire and fuels topics in the Northern Rockies, including links to the most relevant research briefs, syntheses, reports, journal articles, and more. It's worth a browse!
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
10 months ago
Our April newsletter is out in the world! Check your inbox or view it here:
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Darcy Hammond
Lars Brudvig
10 months ago
Call for papers: Climate extremes and resilience of grasslands in the Anthropocene: implications and solutions Submission deadline 30 April 2026; more details in the link As one of the Guest Editors, I'm happy to help answer questions
esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/...
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Ecological Applications Call for Papers Climate extremes and resilience of grasslands in the Anthropocene: implications and solutions
<em>Ecological Applications</em> is an applied ecology journal discussing the applications of ecological science research for policy, management, and solving environmental problems.
https://esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/hub/journal/19395582/call-for-papers/si-2025-000514
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International Journal of Wildland Fire
10 months ago
Hi Bluesky 🔥🌿 We’re the International Journal of Wildland Fire – the peer-reviewed journal of the International Association of Wildland Fire (IAWF), publishing research on all aspects of wildland fire science, including ecological impacts, fire modelling, management, and policy.
#IntlJWildlandFire
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https://www.publish.csiro.au/wf
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
10 months ago
Join us next Tuesday, April 15th at 10MST for a webinar on Pre- and Post-Fire Impacts of Beaver Dams and Beaver Dam Analogs. Emily Fairfax and Alexander Funk will discuss the relationship between freshwater ecosystems, beaver-created wetlands, and wildfires. Learn more and register:
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Bryan Yockers
10 months ago
🔥SAVE THE DATES🔥 The Northeast-Midwest
#PrescribedFire
Science and Management Workshop will be held July 8-10. The event will span three days, combining virtual learning with in-person field trip opportunities across the Northeast and Midwest. 🔗
ow.ly/FTTL50UXPjt
#firescience
#RxFire
#fireecology
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Really looking forward to this webinar! One small correction though, it's at 10am Pacific/11am Mountain 🕚
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11 months ago
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Christine Eriksen
11 months ago
Do you have 15+ years of fire research experience, a strong publication record, and editorial experience? The Association for Fire Ecology (
@afe-fireecology.bsky.social
) is seeking a new Editor-In-Chief for its international scientific journal, Fire Ecology:
fireecology.org/jobs-posts/f...
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Editor-in-Chief, Fire Ecology Journal — Association for Fire Ecology
The Association for Fire Ecology (AFE) welcomes applicants for the esteemed position of Editor-In-Chief (EIC) for the society’s international scientific journal, Fire Ecology.
https://fireecology.org/jobs-posts/fireecology-eic
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
11 months ago
Looking for a valuable learning session next week? Join the LANDFIRE Office Hour on March 26th at 11 am (MST) for insights on project-level fuels management planning using Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment in IFTDSS. More details and registration:
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LANDFIRE Office Hour | Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
Join the LANDFIRE Office Hour the last Wednesday of each month at 10AM Pacific/11AM Mountain. For more details on LANDFIRE click here.
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Darcy Hammond
Northern Rockies Fire Science Network
11 months ago
Hey Bluesky! It's time to officially introduce ourselves... The NRFSN brings people together to strengthen collaborations, synthesize science, and enhance science application to fire management challenges in the Northern Rockies. Check out this brief video summarizing our work:
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What is NRFSN?
Learn more about how the Northern Rockies Fire Science Network facilitates knowledge exchange among fire managers and scientists through this short promo video.
https://buff.ly/08hMoev
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Matthew Hurteau
12 months ago
The New Mexico Reforestation Center is hiring a director. We are looking for a dynamic leader that can develop and execute a plan to establish NMRC as a leader in science-based reforestation. Please help advertise the position and reach out if you have questions.
careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new...
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Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center - NMSU satellite location, New Mexico, United States
Position Title: Dir, New Mexico Reforestation Center Employee Classification: Dir,Research Division,III College/Division: Agricultural,Consumer & Env Sci Col Department: 301800-MORA RESEARCH CENTE...
https://careers.nmsu.edu/jobs/dir-new-mexico-reforestation-center-nmsu-satellite-location-new-mexico-united-states
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Bill Smith
12 months ago
Happy to share a new review in
#LandscapeEcology
, "Applications of unoccupied aerial systems (UAS) in landscape ecology: a review of recent research, challenges and emerging opportunities," expertly led by Miguel Villarreal and with contributions from a great team.
link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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GrumpyUncleSean🔥
12 months ago
1/n Please see our new paper in Nature Communications! We used 1,851 tree-ring fire-scar sites and contemporary fire perimeters to quantify the prevalence of wildfire from 1600-1880 compared to 1984-2022. 🧪🌍🔥 Our key findings are as follows ...
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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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