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
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
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
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
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
Daniel Gorham
Research Engineer, Insurance Institute for Building and Home Safety
South Carolina
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
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
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
Margo Robbins
Co-founder and Executive Director, Cultural Fire Management Council
California
Elizabeth Azzuz
Secretary, Cultural Fire Management 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
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
Scott Stephens
Professor, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley
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
3:30 p.m. - Workshop Adjourns