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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Aug 11

This is sickening. My heart goes out to their families.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Aug 6

Years ago, at a workshop we held on changing wildfire risk in western Washington, I was struck by the analogy that preparing communities for megafires in our fuel-rich forests is similar to tsunami: rapid evacuation, because they can't be fought.

Nice coverage by @rdzombak.bsky.social. Gift link.

Washington State Braces for ‘Inevitable’ Megafire. Climate Change May Bring It Sooner.

www.nytimes.com

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Jul 29

Sigh. Thanks for sharing.

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Meade Krosby @meadekrosby.bsky.social · Jun 30

Heartbreaking and enraging. And make no mistake: this is theft. These reports belong to the American people.

You can still download the past three National Climate Assessments here: repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/61...

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · May 31

I wrote a paper on RU-486 when it first came out. A milestone moment and one that I hoped would allow women to choose in a much less public way than many are still experiencing today.

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Monica H Green @monicamedhist.bsky.social · May 31

Obit of Étienne-Émile Baulieu, the French biochemist and physician who developed the synthetic steroid used in the abortion pill, RU-486 (mifepristone). #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/h...

Étienne-Émile Baulieu, Who Developed the Abortion Pill, Dies at 98

www.nytimes.com

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · May 27

This much needed commentary explains why forest carbon offsets programs are 🐂💩.

"... carbon storage as a nature-based solution will merely serve as a feel-good action and a distraction from meaningful efforts to reduce fossil based carbon loading of the atmosphere" 🔥🧪🌏

Perspectives. Forests, Carbon, and Climate Change: Why our obsession with monetizing forest carbon may be counter productive

Storing carbon in forest ecosystems is commonly promoted as a nature-based solution to climate change in which increases in forest carbon storage are …

www.sciencedirect.com

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · May 9

Getting back to our roots… medium.com/@intertribal...

Good Fire and Strong Sovereignty: Cultural Burning as a Path to Indigenous-Led Forest Stewardship

By Bill Tripp

medium.com

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · May 3

Yertle the Turtle - a classic from Dr. Seuss and quite spot on for the times we are living in.
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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · May 2

AFE beat me to the post! Excited to share this paper. We lived through these massive wildfires in 2014 and 2015 and can now share some lessons from them, including areas that have started to reburn.

Association for Fire Ecology @afe-fireecology.bsky.social · May 2

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: ow.ly/nxax50VLepN

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Apr 29

Excited to read this! thanks, Jane!

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California Fire Science Consortium @cafirescience.bsky.social · Apr 23

Join us tomorrow at 2pm when Dr. Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social will present "Lessons from first-entry burns and reburns: from novel fire exclusion to fire-adapted landscapes" as part of the FFERAL Lecture Series! Register here: tinyurl.com/5n74jrpm

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Bill Tripp @culturalfire.bsky.social · Apr 17

A message from Jim Durglo, a long time indigenous forest and fire management advocate. medium.com/@intertribal...

CULTURAL BURNING HAS LESSONS FOR TODAY’S SUSTAINABLE FOREST MANAGEMENT

By Jim Durglo

medium.com

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Vicky Temperton @7toucans.bsky.social · Apr 15

www.leuphana.de/en/

Come work in our unique long-term grassland priority effect experiment, POEM, in the beautiful Lüneburg Heathland. PhD position available in my lab to start ASAP to see if sowing forbs or legumes early continues to affect root distribution.

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Apr 15

I don't know why it took me so long to make the switch, but after painfully slow Google searches resulting in sponsored results and trying to work with add-ons to resolve the issues, I moved to Mozilla Firefox. Fast, specific searches have returned!

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Amy Cardinal Christianson @amycardinal.bsky.social · Apr 4

Job opportunity!! Communications and social media coordinator for the Thunderbird Collective. Come change the world of fire with us! More job postings to follow in the next month

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Mar 31

Great collection of articles centered on Canadian wildfire science

cdnsciencepub-com.offcampus.lib.washington.edu/topic/cjfr-c...

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Mar 31

This job at UBC (Vancouver Campus) also looks amazing.
forestry.ubc.ca/career-oppor...

Assistant Professor (Tenure Track): Wildfire Sciences | Job | UBC

Job Post: UBC Forestry is seeking an Assistant Professor in Wildfire Sciences to develop an novel research program and teach third-year courses. Apply now.

forestry.ubc.ca

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Mar 31

My colleague Jen Hollis just shared this awesome job in Perth Australia for a fire ecologist. Sharing with just the community that I follow on BlueSky. WA = Western Australia! search.jobs.wa.gov.au/page.php?pag...

WA Government Jobs | Research Scientist or Senior Research Scientist (Fire Science)

search.jobs.wa.gov.au

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GrumpyUncleSean🔥 @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social · Mar 25

Stoked to have contributed to this new paper in BioScience - "Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes".

"Within protected areas, there is an urgent need to rethink what we are protecting: the current landscape conditions or the landscape dynamics that generate those conditions"
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Conserving landscape dynamics, not just landscapes

Abstract. Protected areas form the backbone of modern conservation. However, the current policies and practices in protected areas reinforce a static view

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Sarah Gilman @sarahmgilman.bsky.social · Mar 25

Been working on this story and paintings for months, and following this industrial road proposal for years. At last, here's a brief tale of tribes' generations-long fight to preserve the integrity and connectivity of their ancestral lands and waters, and the wild foods that they sustain.

Sierra Magazine @sierramagazine.bsky.social · Mar 25

The case for the Ambler Road had been settled. Regulators would not cleave through Alaska's Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve. However, with President Trump in office, a community that fought to keep the road out of their traditional homelands may find themselves back to square one.

Alaskan Tribes and Activists Are Ready to Resist Ambler Road, Again

The proposed route would slash through pristine Indigenous land

www.sierraclub.org

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Mar 25

www.sciencedirect.com/journal/meth...

MethodsX | Journal | ScienceDirect.com by ElsevierScienceDirect

Read the latest articles of MethodsX at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Mar 5

Let's discuss! We are not necessariy seeing uniform effects from short-interval reburns. Where they produce a mix of effects, heterogeneity prevails...

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Mar 5

We only have to look to western Canada to see how well this strategy has played out in recent decades.

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Susan Prichard @susanprichard.bsky.social · Feb 23

Baked my Grandma's recipe for bread pudding today. Comfort food was called for after another brutal week in the news. Sharing for all of you bread pudding and raisin lovers out there. Others should probably pass on this one.

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