Thanks. A little bleak for some of the pines but the scrub oak sure has a bright future.

Postfire landscapes of the 2025 Deer Creek fire, Colorado-Utah border, USA.

I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...

As I understand it, the unscorched tree lines are thought to be the product of horizontal wind vortices, parallel to the direction of spread at higher wind speeds but forming concentric circles at lower wind speeds. Refugia for understory species. Also note unburned island of mixed aspen+conifer.

Though this is not a tree-ring fire scar, for #firescarfriday here is an interesting pic of landscape burn severity patterns from the 2025 Rabbit Creek Fire (DA-007) in the Yukon Territory.

Our new research highlights the extent that aspen stands may act as a firebreak, slowing or stopping fire. Applications for land management and implications for fire-driven conifer-to-aspen forest conversion. Thanks @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social for the summary below. doi.org/10.1002/eap....

This would be the largest public lands sell-off in modern U.S. history and it's happening with no hearings, no debate, and no public input.

See what public lands would be available for sale:
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nice! You all are still burning down there? How long does the Rx season go?

It’s finally in writing. The detailed President’s budget clearly wants to completely eliminate USFS Research

Why do fire scars form more on the leeward or uphill sides of trees? For #firescarfriday here's a little time lapse video showing the increased residence time of flame, and thus increased heating and potential cambial injury, in the eddy of air in the lee of this long leaf pine. Florida, USA, 2025.

Or, contributing to the assertion that it is all harmful (also false).

End Product Of The Mo Salah Selfie 🤳😍

Beautiful. What a difference a few inches makes! Or a thousand feet...

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Hands off Gunnison Colorado!
#handsoff

Impressive work.

Flaming fire scars at the base of a longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) in the Red Hills of Florida USA. 04/02/25. Interesting how intensely these can burn once they get going. #firescarfriday

"Trump’s economic plans are incoherent and incomprehensible at least partially by design. The goal, by this longtime scam artist, is to bamboozle the American people and take their money."

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Join us at the Lincoln Memorial or your local site to Stand Up for Science!

Wherever you are today, join us as we STAND UP FOR SCIENCE!

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Faster burning fires not only burn disproportionately large areas, but they also burn more severely.

Extreme fire spread events (just the top 3%) accounted for a third of the total area burned, but half of the total area burned at high severity--setting the stage for long-term forest loss. 🧪🌎🔥

To sum it up, the president ordered water released for fires in LA with water that doesn’t reach LA, at volumes that could cause communities to flood, and in the wrong season for irrigating crops, which will then mean less water for irrigating crops in the summer when it’s actually needed.