From a journalist friend: Just spreading the word. The CDC is purging data, so people should archive their favorite CDC datasets today, namely ones around race/ethnic diversity, LGBTQ, and reproductive health. Also health data involving climate. The youth risk behavior survey has already gone down.

If you use any USDA climate or carbon data or reports - download them NOW. The are being removed from the web.

Keep on keepin’ on

Wishing a wonderful Lunar New Year to all who celebrate! 🥳🎉🎊🎶🐍✨️

There are definitely days when I identify a little too much with Boxer (image from DaniBeez www.deviantart.com/danibeez)

Prescribed burning can reduce the severity and amount of smoke from wildfires that burn those areas later on, even when accounting for smoke from the prescribed burns themselves, according to new analysis of California’s record-breaking 2020 fire season from @soa-mazing.bsky.social etal. 🧪

How does landscape context influence recruitment dynamics in secondary forests? Find out in our new paper lead by Dr. van Breugel: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #AguaSalud

stolen from: Wild Green Memes for Ecological Fiends

"Spatiotemporal Synchrony of Climate and Fire Occurrence Across North American Forests (1750–1880)" this seems to provide an important insight to me

Nice op-ed from New Mexico's state forester: we can do better on preventing unintended human-cause wildfires

Wow Stephanie Hegarty is smart! youtu.be/zItgxM1sNqw?...

I love it when Tundra does cartoons about trees!

Tis the season! Some views of recent pile burning activity on Pajarito Ski Mountain. Over 40 piles were burned on this multi-county effort (Sandoval, Los Alamos). Congratulations to all involved on some great work! 📸: Brian Filip

Something I never thought I’d see in 1989:

In 2024, wildfires burned a record number of forests participating in California's forest offset program, exposing the danger of relying on forests to slow climate change. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I’m recruiting for a graduate student to work on forest climate resilience at the University of Vermont! For more information, see the first listing here www.uvm.edu/rsenr/gradua... Please share widely!

Learning from wildfires: A scalable framework to evaluate treatment effects on burn severity great work @susanprichard.bsky.social !

Sheltwood sunday - an old shot of an oak shelterwood harvest with an understory of mountain laurel

Cool to see colleagues doing good work! "Informing proactive wildfire management that benefits vulnerable communities and ecological values"

Old forests? Count me in Online discussion next week

Shaggy Peak because the more tree photos, the better

Woohoo! The 2024 Forest Stewards Guild annual review is out! foreststewardsguild.org/wp-content/u...

Great new paper by Dr. Aslan: Measuring and predicting disturbance resilience in ecosystems, with emphasis on fire: A review and meta-analysis (Dr Aslan is proof that you can be a kind, collaborative person and do topnotch science)

Great conversations at the Fire Ecology Conference - I’m learning important nuances on fire management, tools, and organizational dynamics #SWFECO24 swfireconference.org/schedule/

Excited to be at the Southwest Fire Ecology Conference! #SWFECO24 (Photo of the awesome Dr Edgeley)

Tesuque Pueblo's co-stewardship of the Caja del Rio is a good step forward (onward towards co-management?)

Cool new paper (even if the news isn’t good) Changing climate and disturbance effects on southwestern US forests @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social

Seedlings!

Glad to see support for the next generation of forest stewards

Glad to be here on blue sky!

1/ Please see our new paper! 'Contemporary fires are less frequent but more severe in dry conifer forests of the southwestern United States'. #Wildfire 🧪🌏🔥