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Finding Beauty in a Burnt Forest: Toward a Paradigm Shift on Wildfire

I attended the University of Montana as an undergraduate back in the 1970s. I had many professors who I felt were exceptional. The common denominator...

24.09.2025 2

George Wuerthner

Flawed Assumptions About Wildfires Lead to Poor Public Policies

The starting assumption about wildfire that dominates public policy is that “fire suppression” has created abnormal “fuel build up” in...

17.09.2025 10

George Wuerthner

The False “Good Fire” Paradigm

The North Rim of the Grand Canyon forest stands are dominated by ponderosa pine, which tends to have a low-severity/high-frequency fire regime....

27.08.2025 10

George Wuerthner

Home Construction Materials Can Increase Losses to Wildfires

Note that the cement wall withstood the Eaton Fire that left many of the wooden homes in Altadina, CA charred. Photo by George Wuerthner Increasingly,...

13.08.2025 6

George Wuerthner

Should We Garden Our Forests?

A new study published in the journal Forest Ecology and Management “Significant mortality of old trees across a dry forest landscape, Oregon,”...

16.07.2025 10

George Wuerthner

Trump’s Assault On Alaska’s Wildlands

One of the first Executive Orders from the Trump Whitehouse is to reverse environmental protections for federal lands in Alaska and hasten, expand,...

27.01.2025 7