Wildfire in the West Workshop

April 21-23, 2021

(All times Pacific!)

Wednesday, April 21

4:00 p.m. - Meet-and-Greet Happy Hour and Wildfire Journalism Chat

Lauren Sommer Science Desk Correspondent NPR California

Lauren Sommer
Science Desk Correspondent
NPR
California

 

Thursday, April 22

9:00 - 10:15 a.m. (Pacific!) - Living in the Pyrocene: Our Relationship with Fire

Stephen Pyne Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University; Author

Stephen Pyne
Emeritus Professor, Arizona State University; Author

 

10:15 - 10:30 a.m. - Break

10:30 a.m. - Noon - Igniting Change: The Future of Fire Management

Susan Prichard Fire Ecologist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington

Susan Prichard
Fire Ecologist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington

Jeremy Bailey Fire Training and Network Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy Utah

Jeremy Bailey
Fire Training and Network Coordinator, The Nature Conservancy
Utah

Lenya Quinn-Davidson Director, Northern California Prescribed Fire Council; Research Associate, University of California Cooperative Extension

Lenya Quinn-Davidson
Director, Northern California Prescribed Fire Council; Research Associate, University of California Cooperative Extension

 

Noon - 12:30 p.m. - Break

12:30 - 2:00 p.m. - (Not) Burning Down the House: Building More Resilient Homes and Communities

Kimiko Barrett Policy Analyst and Author, Headwaters Economics Montana

Kimiko Barrett
Policy Analyst and Author, Headwaters Economics
Montana

Daniel Gorham Research Engineer, Insurance Institute for Building and Home Safety South Carolina

Daniel Gorham
Research Engineer, Insurance Institute for Building and Home Safety
South Carolina

Conor Lenehan Deputy Fire Marshal, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

Conor Lenehan
Deputy Fire Marshal, Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.

 

2:00 - 2:15 p.m. - Break

2:15 - 4:00 p.m. - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (And Everywhere Else): Wildfire and Public Health

Andrew Whelton Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University Indiana

Andrew Whelton
Associate Professor, Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
Indiana

Sarah Coefield Air Quality Specialist, Missoula County, Montana

Sarah Coefield
Air Quality Specialist, Missoula County, Montana

Heather Riden Program Director, Center for Health and the Environment, Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, UC Davis

Heather Riden
Program Director, Center for Health and the Environment, Western Center for Agricultural Health and Safety, UC Davis

Genevieve Flores-Haro Associate Director, Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project California

Genevieve Flores-Haro
Associate Director, Mixteco Indígena Community Organizing Project
California

4:00 p.m. - Workshop adjourns for the day.


Friday, April 23

9:00 - 10:30 a.m. - Rekindling Old Relationships: Learning from Traditional Cultural Fire Practices

Frank Kanawha Lake Research Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station California

Frank Kanawha Lake
Research Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
California

Margo Robbins Co-founder and Executive Director, Cultural Fire Management Council California

Margo Robbins
Co-founder and Executive Director, Cultural Fire Management Council
California

Elizabeth Azzuz  Secretary, Cultural Fire Management Council California

Elizabeth Azzuz
Secretary, Cultural Fire Management Council
California

Will Harling Executive Director, Mid-Klamath Watershed Council California

Will Harling
Executive Director, Mid-Klamath Watershed Council
California

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. - Break

10:45 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. - Belly of the Beast: On-the-Ground Firefighting in a Changing World

Craig Tolmie Chief Deputy Director, Cal Fire

Craig Tolmie
Chief Deputy Director, Cal Fire

Jim Whittington PIO, Whittington & Associates Oregon

Jim Whittington
PIO, Whittington & Associates
Oregon

 

12:15 - 12:45 p.m. - Break

12:45 - 2:15 p.m. - Fire on the Mountain (and Elsewhere): Forests, Ecology, and What Does ‘Management’ Really Mean?

Meg Krawchuk Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University

Meg Krawchuk
Associate Professor, Forest Ecosystems and Society, Oregon State University

Scott Stephens Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley

Scott Stephens
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley

Malcolm North Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station California

Malcolm North
Ecologist, U.S. Forest Service Pacific Southwest Research Station
California

 

2:15 - 2:30 p.m. - Break

2:30 - 3:30 p.m. - Journalists Wrap Session and Q+A

Ron Wakimoto Professor Emeritus, Forest Fire Science, University of Montana; IJNR Trustee

Ron Wakimoto
Professor Emeritus, Forest Fire Science, University of Montana; IJNR Trustee

 

3:30 p.m. - Workshop Adjourns