David Flores, PhD

Treesearch Publications

• David Flores, Desmond Lartey, Louis Fleming, Dean Ferreira. 2025. Wildfire management in South Africa: An assessment using Integrated Fire Management
• David Flores, Myrium De Vroome, Michael Caggiano. 2025. Nourishing wildland firefighters: Exploring perspectives on wildland fire incident catering
• Satoris S. Howes, David Flores, Melissa Villarreal, Bill Hahnenberg, Jane Darnell. 2025. How engaged scholarship is helping combat the wildfire crisis
• Jasper R. de Vries, Michael A. Cacciapaglia, David Flores, Cathelijne R. Stoof. 2025. Pyrotown: A serious educational game for Integrated Fire Management students
• José J. Sánchez, David Flores, Lorie Srivastava, Emily Schlickman, Jianhao Cui, Maria V Arias, Antonio Davila. 2025. Collaborating on a survey tool to measure urban BIPOC youths’ perceptions of the outdoors
• David Flores, Rebekah L. Fox, Jody Jahn, Joel O. Iverson, Steven J. Venette. 2024. Risk and crisis communication in wildland fire fighting: Developing a social science research group for wildland fire
• David Flores, José J. Sánchez, Emily Schlickman, Lorie Srivastava, Maria Victoria Arias, Jianhao Cui, Antonio Davila, Jorge Cortez-Solise. 2024. Minding the science-practice gap to reach the goals of sustainable recreation research
• Sue Miller, David Flores, Jim Gumm, Christina Anabel, Louis Fleming, Joel Iverson. 2024. Flames and rapid feedback: How focus groups shaped wildfire response during COVID-19
• David Flores, Rebekah L. Fox, Jody Jahn, Craig Conley, Satoris S. Howes, Joel O. Iverson, Steven J. Venette, Emily Haire, Cathelijne R. Stoof. 2024. Using focus groups for knowledge sharing: Tracking emerging pandemic impacts on USFS wildland fire operations
• Cathelijne R. Stoof, Jasper R. de Vries, Marc Castellnou Ribau, Marina F. Fernandez, David Flores, Julissa Galarza Villamar, Nicholas Kettridge, Desmond Lartey, Peter F. Moore, Fiona Newman Thacker, Susan J. Prichard, Pepijn Tersmette, Sam Tuijtel, Ivo Verhaar, Paulo M. Fernandes. 2024. Megafire: An ambiguous and emotive term best avoided by science
• Douglass F. Jacobs, Kas Dumroese, Andrea N. Brennan, Faith T. Campbell, Anna O. Conrad, Jason A. Delborne, Sara Fitzsimmons, David Flores, Christian P. Giardina, Leigh Greenwood, Juan A. Martín, Scott A. Merkle, C. Dana Nelson, Andrew E. Newhouse, William A. Powell, Jeanne Romero‑Severson, David N. Showalter, Richard A. Sniezko, Steven H. Strauss, Jared Westbrook, Paul Woodcock. 2023. Reintroduction of at‑risk forest tree species using biotechnology depends on regulatory policy, informed by science and with public support
• Matthew P. Thompson, Erin J. Belval, Jude Bayham, Dave E. Calkin, Crystal S. Stonesifer, David Flores. 2023. Wildfire response: A system on the brink?
• David Flores, Emily Haire. 2022. The US Forest Service Life First safety initiative: Exploring unnecessary exposure to risk
• David Flores, Rebekah L. Fox, Joel O. Iverson, Steven J. Venette, Craig Conley, Jody Jahn, Satoris S. Howes, Emily Haire. 2022. Pivoting during the pandemic: How COVID-19 and the 2020 wildland fire year created a novel learning opportunity for USDA Forest Service wildland fire management
• Kas Dumroese, Jennifer A. Balachowski, David Flores, Matthew E. Horning. 2022. Reforestation to mitigate changes to climate: More than just planting seedlings
• David Flores, Jim Gumm, Theodore Adams. 2022. An applied process for learning during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Alyssa Thomas, José J. Sánchez, David Flores. 2022. A review of trends and knowledge gaps in Latinx outdoor recreation on federal and state public lands
• David Flores, Emily Haire. 2021. The development of an organizational safety culture in the United States Forest Service
• Gregory Russell, Joseph G. Champ, David Flores, Michael Martinez, Alan M. Hatch, Esther Morgan, Paul Clarke. 2021. Doing work on the land of our ancestors: Reserved treaty rights lands collaborations in the American Southwest
• David Flores, Gregory Russell. 2020. Integrating tribes and culture Into public land management [Chapter 5.5]
• David Flores. 2020. An introduction to social, economic, and ecological factors in natural resource management of Northeastern California public lands [Chapter 5.1]
• David Flores, Gregory Russell. 2020. Demographic trends in Northeastern California [Chapter 5.2]
• David Flores, Emily R. Haire. 2020. Ecosystem services and public land management [Chapter 5.3]
• David Flores, Leah Stone. 2020. Community engagement in the decisionmaking process for public land management in Northeastern California [Chapter 5.4]
• David Flores, José J. Sánchez. 2020. The changing dynamic of Latinx outdoor recreation on national and state public lands
• Luis Santiago, David Flores, Chang-Yu Hong. 2020. The impact of extreme weather events on community risk planning and management: The case of San Juan, Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria
• Brian Cooke, Dudley Edmondson, David Flores, Francisco Valenzuela, Nina S. Roberts, Gennaro Falco. 2018. Recreating in color: Promoting ethnic diversity in public lands
• David Flores, Karmon Kuhn. 2018. Latino outdoors: Using storytelling and social media to increase diversity on public lands
• David Flores, Gennaro Falco, Nina S. Roberts, Francisco P. Valenzuela. 2018. Recreation equity: Is the Forest Service serving its diverse publics?
• David Flores. 2018. Standing in the middle: Insider/outsider positionality while conducting qualitative research with opposing military veteran political groups
• David Flores. 2016. From prowar soldier to antiwar activist: Change and continuity in the narratives of political conversion among Iraq War veterans
• David Flores. 2016. Fighting for peace: Veterans and military families in the anti-Iraq War movement [Book Review]
• David Flores. 2016. Politicization beyond politics: Narratives and mechanisms of Iraq War veterans’ activism
• David Flores. 2014. Memories of war: Sources of Vietnam veteran pro- and antiwar political attitudes

Citations of Non-Forest Service Publications

• Flores, D., F.P.M. Silva, V.C. Vaneti, and R. Braga. 2011. Social movement unionism and neoliberalism in Sao Paulo, Brazil: shifting logics of collective action in telemarketing labor unions. Societies Without Borders: Human Rights and the Social Sciences 6(1):73-101.

Data and Tools

• Tool
  

  Pyrotown: A serious educational game for Integrated Fire Management students

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/dataandtools/pyrotown-serious-educational-game-integrated-fire-management-students

• Program
  

  Human Dimensions

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/programs/humandimensions
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Denver Urban Field Station

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/urban
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT)

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/projects/comfrt
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Wildfire Risk Management Science Team

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/wrms
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Social Science Research Group for Wildfire

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/social-science-research-group-wildfire
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station
• Project
  

  Synthesis of Baseline Acceptance, Research Needs and Priorities Related to Wildfire

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/nrs/projects/bil-synthesis-acceptance-research-needs-priorities-wildfire
  Station

  Northern Research Station
• Center or Group
  

  Western Center for Native Plant Conservation and Restoration Science

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/centers/wcnp
  Station

  Rocky Mountain Research Station

Articles

• Article
  

  Wildfire social science: How scientists and practitioners are collaborating to create evidence-based research

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/wildfire-social-science-how-scientists-and-practitioners-are-collaborating-create
• Article
  

  Introducing Pyrotown: A researcher-developed multiplayer game on integrated fire management

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/articles/introducing-pyrotown-researcher-developed-multiplayer-game-integrated-fire-management

Other Publications

• Fact Sheet
  

  CoMFRT at a Glance

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/understory/comfrt-glance

Multimedia

• Video

  Meet David Flores, Forest Service Researcher

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/rmrs/products/multimedia/videos/meet-david-flores-forest-service-researcher
• Webinars

  SCIENCEx Human Dimensions: Recreating Equitably

  https://research.fs.usda.gov/products/multimedia/webinars/sciencex-human-dimensions-recreating-equitably

• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, Ph.D., Sociology, 2012
• University of Michigan - Ann Arbor, M.A., Sociology, 2006
• University of California - Berkeley, B.A., Sociology, 2003