Search Results for: collaboration

One Not Very Helpful Report on the Comparison of Wildfire and Prescribed Fire Smoke and Another Helpful One

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  Bill Gabbert “took one for the team”- (thank you Bill!)  by reviewing a report requested by Ag and Interior of EPA. As reported by Bill on Wildfire Today, it’s kind of embarrassing that the Departments didn’t take a more active role in design of the project (case studies?) and request involvement of key researchers. … Read more

New OSU Study on Thinning and Prescribed Burning in the Blue Mountains

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This OSU study by Johnston et al. is interesting because it suggests that mechanical thinning can be useful in reducing without follow-up prescribed burning, at least for a while, at least in NE Oregon. Mechanical thinning alone can calm the intensity of future wildfires for many years, and prescribed burns lengthen thinning’s effectiveness, according to … Read more

Collaborative Research: Avoiding Helicopter/Parachute/Neo-colonial Approaches

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Thanks to Peter Williams for this piece in Nature Career Column to add to our collection of “similarities between less-developed countries and less developed parts of more-developed countries.” The practice of scientists from wealthy nations visiting lower-income countries, collecting samples, publishing the results with little or no involvement from local scientists, and providing no benefit … Read more

What Do You Think About?: This Forest Supervisor’s Wildfire Comments

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This article in High Country News seemed to fit with Sharon’s post yesterday, but also seemed worth a separate post. In the view of this forest supervisor, the solution is more landscape-scale decisions (which we have discussed a few times, like here), and more categorical exclusions (which we have discussed a few times, like here.)  … Read more

PERC’s “Fix America’s Forests” Litigation Ideas: What Do You Think?

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We’ve been having an interesting discussion about a specific organization, PERC, with my contention being that one should examine ideas on their own merits regardless of source, and Anonymous arguing something different, as usual, quite articulately, in their own words (I don’t know how Anonymous identifies gender-wise) here . As usual, I thought that diving … Read more

Monitoring and Adaptive Management in the Southern Blues- Webinar

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Thanks to Sustainable Northwest for hosting this webinar as part of the PNW Collaboratives Workshop.    I particularly like the way the partners have generated and answered science questions; what the science and technology studies folks call “co-design and co-production of knowledge.”    We’ve had several posts about the effort before about this effort from … Read more