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All Episodes

Life with Fire — 80 episodes

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Bringing Wildfire Public Information Into the Modern Era with Noah Baker

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Latine Forestry Workforce Part 3 (Spanish Version): La Fuerza Laboral Latine en el Sector Forestal y Por Qué la Solidaridad es Importante con Manuel Machado

3

Part 2: The Latine Forestry Workforce and Why Solidarity Matters with Manuel Machado (and Guest Host Gaby Eseverri)

4

Part 1: The Latine Forestry Workforce with Dr. E.J. Davis

5

Braiding The Personal with the Ecological, with HOTSHOT Author River Selby

6

The Intricacies of Hotshot Culture, with Wildfire Days author Kelly Ramsey

7

The Social Contract of Managing Fire with Stephen Pyne

8

Community Resilience Series Ep.3: Preparing for and Recovering From Megafires with Butte County Fire Safe Council Executive Director Taylor Nilsson

9

Community Resilience Series Episode 2: The Importance of Scaling Up Home Risk Assessments with Fire Aside CEO Jason Brooks

10

Community Resilience Series Ep. 1: California Wildfire Policy (And So Much More) with Former CAL FIRE Chief Deputy Director Chris Anthony

11

After The Fire with Collin Haffey

12

How the Loss of Federal Workers Will Have A Massive Impact on Fire Operations This Fire Season, With Riva Duncan

13

Fire in the Southwest Ep. 6: The Ebb and Flow of Public Trust Around Prescribed Fire, with New Mexico Deputy State Forester Lindsey Quam

14

Fire in the Southwest Ep. 5: Using Wildfire To Build Resilience at the Landscape Scale, with Dr. Jose (Pepe) Iniguez

15

Pros, Cons and Misconceptions of Aerial Firefighting with Matt Lynde

16

Fire Tech and Improving Access to Wildfire Information, with Watch Duty Founder John Clarke Mills

17

Fire in the Southwest Ep. 4: The Shifting Role of the Forest Stewards Guild in an Era of Megafires, with Zander Evans

18

Fire in the Southwest Series, Ep. 3: Integrating Indigenous Knowledge into Western Fire Management with Jon Martin

19

Fire in the Southwest Series, Ep.2: The Grassification of the Sonoran Desert with Ecologist Mary Lata

20

Fire in the Southwest Series, Ep. 1: Southwest Fire Regimes and Post-Fire Community Support with Mary Stuever

21

THE BEAVER EPISODE (finally!) with Dr. Emily Fairfax and Dr. Sophie Gilbert

22

Experiences of Wildfire in Montana, with Young Indigenous Storytellers and the Montana Media Lab

23

The Changing Fire Environment and Shifting Baseline Syndrome with "Fire Weather" Author John Vaillant

24

Fire Technology, Emergency Management and Building Resilience at Scale With Dr. Jessica McCarty

25

Rapid Fire Episode with Mystery Ranch Backbone Scholarship Winner Riston Bullock

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Rapid Fire Episode with Mystery Ranch Backbone Scholarship Winner Junior Lazaro

27

Fire For the People With the Nature Conservancy's Marek Smith

28

The Wildfire Commission Report with Kelly Martin

29

Humble Fire and Traditional Ecological Practices with Cultural Fire Scholar, Dr. Melinda Adams

30

Community-Informed Wildfire Communications, With Isabeau Ottolini

31

Expanding Prescribed Fire Capacity in Washington State, with Lucas King

32

Life after Wildland Firefighting with Luke Mayfield

33

Forest Resilience Policy at the State Level with Hilary Franz

34

Fire in the Pine Barrens of the Northeast with Emily Dolhansky

35

The Psychology of Fire and Innovating without Ego with Dr. Natasha Stavros

36

The Philosophy of Fire with Amanda Rau, Part Two

37

Making Your Own Spark, with Amanda Rau (Part One)

38

Prescribed Fire, Managed Fire and Community Engagement in Oregon, with Christopher Adlam

39

Community Resilience with Firesmart Canada Program Manager Magda Zachara

40

Utilizing Traditional First Nations Values in Land Management, with Francis Johnson Jr.

41

Paradoxes and Solutions In Wildfire Smoke Exposure, with Sarah Henderson

42

Tracking The Economic Impacts of Wildfire, with Environmental Economist Jude Bayham

43

How Do Wildfires Impact Snowpack? With Andrew Schwartz

44

Building Trails in Burn Areas, with Dillon Osleger

45

How Wildfires Are Impacting Outdoor Recreation, with Jamie Ervin

46

Hotshot Crew to Grad School, with Harrison Raine

47

Underdiscussed, Poorly Understood: Prescribed Fire Liability Insurance with Daniel Godwin

48

Indigenous-Led Fire Stewardship with Amy Cardinal-Christianson

49

How Can Fire Culture Become More Inclusive? with Triss Seemiller

50

A Life Of Fire as a Trans Woman, with Bobbie Scopa

51

Diversity in Fire with Jane Park (Part Two)

52

Prescribed Fire Management in Banff National Park with Jane Park

53

From Fashion Week to the Fireline with Celilo Miles

54

Creating Connections Through Community Forests with Jay McLaughlin

55

Michael Wara Part 2: Sustainability of the Suppression Workforce + Lots More

56

The Reality of Burning 50 Million Acres in 10 Years with Michael Wara

57

The Tim Hart Act and Channeling Grief with Michelle Hart

58

Climate Change Impacts on High Severity, Low Frequency Fire Regimes with Phil Higuera

59

Four Decades of Fire, with Sue Husari (and Guest Host Zeke Lunder)

60

What The Infrastructure Bill Means for Wildland Firefighters with Riva Duncan

61

Homes as Fuel with Zeke Lunder, Yana Valochovic and Eric Knapp

62

All Things Cultural Burning with Karuk Tribal Member Bill Tripp

63

Building a Community of Land Stewards, With Sasha Berleman

64

Scientists Respond to the New "All Fires Out," Forest Service Directive, With Matt Hurteau

65

Exploring Fire Impacts on Wildlife with Kendall Calhoun

66

Land Use Series Episode Two: Resilient and Sustainable Development, with Liz Foster and Molly McCabe

67

Land Use Mini-Series: Planning Developments for Fire Resilience with Molly Mowery

68

Wildfire Technology, Trauma and Other Tidbits, With Zeke Lunder

69

Wildfire Perceptions and Misconceptions with Crystal Kolden

70

Is Suppressing Wildfire Actually More Of A Liability Than Prescribed Burning? With Will Harling

71

Exploitation, Transformation and the Paradox of Incarcerated Firefighting with Dr. Lindsey Feldman

72

Off-Season Struggles: Understanding Wildland Firefighter Mental Health

73

From Incarcerated Firefighter to Full-Time Hotshot with Mando Perez

74

Restoring the Land, Restoring the People: Cultural Burning with Margo Robbins

75

Building Fire-Resilient Communities with Annie Schmidt

76

Why The "Labor Day Firestorm," Was So Historic, with Fire Meteorologist Nick Nauslar

77

Firefighter Safety and The History of Hotshots With John Maclean

78

Learning to Live in "The Pyrocene," With Stephen Pyne

79

Achieving Diversity Through Prescribed Burning With Lenya Quinn-Davidson

80

The Prescribed Fire Revolution with Jeremy Bailey