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Was 2011 the Year of Mega-Fire?
The following post is written by Jon Schwedler, communications manager for The Nature Conservancy’s Restoring America’s Forests program. For the past 14 years, Jon has worked on forest conservation...
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America’s Forest: Now with 20% More Love
The following post is written by Jon Schwedler, communications manager for The Nature Conservancy’s Restoring America’s Forests program. For the past 14 years, Jon has worked on forest conservation...
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Reflections on 50 Years of Burning in The Nature Conservancy
Blane Heumann is The Nature Conservancy’s director of fire management. He’s worked for the Conservancy for 20 years, and he has been pursuing excellence in burning for conservation for the past 27...
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Prescribed Burning Helps Save the Family Ranch
Conservation to the rescue! Ok, it’s not quite the action-packed, superhero story you might see in movie theaters. But maybe it should be. A new study from The Nature Conservancy shows that prescribed...
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A Good Thing for Our Forests
[Editor’s note: Jeremy Bailey is the Fire Learning Network Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy.] Last week, deep in a ponderosa pine forest north of Santa Fe, New Mexico, a radio crackled to life....
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Farming Carbon with Fire: Helping Northern Australia Restore Natural Burn...
Michael Looker is the director of The Nature Conservancy’s Australia division. By going back in time, Fish River Station is making history — again. For millennia, this piece of northern Australia was...
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Considering Climate Change from a Country on Fire
Three recent events have made Australia a flashpoint for the global discussion around severe weather. The first: a rash of record temperatures and raging bushfires that has garnered international...
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Does Snow Burn?
Jeremy Bailey is the Fire Learning Network Coordinator for The Nature Conservancy. It started with snow and ended with snow. Our goal was to train 65 fire workers and students from five western...
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Contest Shows Natural Solutions Can Protect Against Extreme Weather
Sometimes, solutions to big challenges start small. That’s the idea behind Solution Search, a contest developed by environmental nonprofit Rare to uncover promising local solutions to pressing global...
View ArticleWhy Congress Should Fix How the U.S. Pays to Fight Wildfires
Wildfires burn 7 million acres every year in the U.S. And besides ravaging federal, state, tribal and private lands, those fires — an average of more than 73,000 annually — destroy 2,600 structures...
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