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Co-Management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT)

Status
Completed

CoMFRT is a research-management partnership that works with communities using a shared learning approach to identify strategies to build resilience.

Wildfires do not stop at boundaries. Whether it’s public or private land, increasing the resilience of people and property to wildfire involves everyone who is at risk, as well as those who make decisions about risk in fire-prone landscapes. The Partnership represents a diverse group of coordinated researchers, fire managers in the field, and national and state policymakers.

Social science can build relevant, actionable knowledge of wildfire through research on human behavior, institutions and governance, community dynamics, and social networks.

The CoMFRT Project was funded by the USDA Forest Service, State and Private Forestry, and the Rocky Mountain Research Station.

Partnership Objectives

  • Identify innovative, cross-boundary approaches to co-manage risk in fire-prone landscapes;
  • Highlight ways that improve capacity to co-manage risk in different social and ecological conditions; and
  • Provide recommendations to inform strategic investments that will improve the wildland fire system, sustain communities, and conserve the land

Initial CoMFRT project research questions

  • What strategies to address wildfire risk take into account community diversity and work effectively across different social contexts?
  • What institutional relationships and mechanisms allow people to work together to share and co-manage risk?
  • How can agencies and communities build capacity for cross-boundary and adaptive governance, and for collaboration?
  • How is knowledge used to address and enable adaptation to cross-boundary wildfire risk?

CoMFRT partnership structure

The CoMFRT research team is organized into six subteams and includes individuals from several universities and the USDA Forest Service. Each CoMFRT subteam engages with individuals and organizations active in wildfire management and other Partnership subteams to investigate cross-boundary wildfire risk management.

The CoMFRT research team works together with the community using an integrated “deep dive” approach at each study site. By studying households, communities, networks, local governance, and other facets of the landscape and community and how they operate together, CoMFRT creates a holistic understanding of each area that’s never been seen before.

Study sites

Fire-prone landscapes, or hotspots (circled below in blue), were first identified using a west-wide model designed to identify areas with an especially high risk of wildfire transmission from USFS-managed lands to private property. From these hotspots, North Central Washington was selected as the first study site followed by the Washach area of Utah.

Management-relevant science

The aim of the CoMFRT Partnership is to co-produce it in collaboration with the USDA Forest Service, and our local and regional partners. Co-production is an iterative research process that brings together partners with different expertise, from within academia and beyond, to develop research tailored to a specific context and problem. By engaging in co-production, the CoMFRT project recognizes that academics need to work in collaboration with the various people and agencies working on wildfire to understand the complex management issues presented by growing wildfire risk. The CoMFRT research team has adopted the co-production approach and acknowledges that their work must be informed by the talented managers who regularly grapple with wildfire risk.

The overarching direction of the CoMFRT project is co-produced through a series of conversations between the project research team and partners from the Fire and Aviation branch of the USDA Forest Service. The research team then works with local and regional partners to ensure that the research is meaningful to them, and will provide useful insights for partners working to manage wildfire risk both within project study sites and beyond.

Why co-production?

  • Integrates multiple perspectives
  • Builds relationships and networks
  • Facilitates shared learning
  • Develops targeted research
  • Enables learning from local context
  • Draws on relevant theoretical insights
  • Creates active engagement between research and decision-making
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There is no such thing as a universal solution to the challenges of wildfire management. Consequently, the CoMFRT Partnership explores what people and organizations in different fire-prone landscapes can do and have done to collectively mitigate wildfire risk across land ownerships and jurisdictions.

CoMFRT draws on different social science perspectives and practitioner knowledge to explore what people and organizations have done and can in different political, cultural, and geographic contexts to manage landscapes for resilience.

 

Supporting the National Cohesive Strategy

The CoMFRT project supports the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy and hazardous fuels program of the USDA Forest Service by contributing to the following goals:

  • Identify innovative, cross-boundary landscape-scale approaches to managing wildfire hazards;
  • Improve public and private collaborative capacity to address fire risk in different communities and contexts;
  • Increase both the ecological and social resilience and reduce risk to communities from wildfire; and
  • Increase effectiveness of hazardous fuels investments.

The complexities of wildland fire today

  • Wildfires can burn across landscapes without regard to ownership or jurisdiction.
  • Whether it’s public or private land, reducing the exposure of people and property to wildfire involves all who are at risk and all those who make decisions about risk in fire-prone landscapes.
  • As the scale of wildfires grows, the scale of cross-boundary planning and management needs to expand accordingly.
  • The complex suite of components important to wildfire can be represented as the wildland fire system - a complex social and ecological system that assembles in unique ways in different places and drives outcomes in the wildland fire environment.
  • Shared stewardship is about working together in an integrated way to make decisions and take actions toward shared goals.

Key Personnel

Collaborators

Publications

External Publications

  • Publications

    • Paveglio, T. B., Stasiewicz, A. M. & Edgeley, C. M. (2021). Understanding support for regulatory approaches to wildfire management and performance of property mitigations on private lands. Land Use Policy, 100, 104893. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2020.104893

    • Billings, M. C., Carroll, M. S., & Paveglio, T. B. (2021). The “Strings Attached” to community difference and potential pathways to fire adaptiveness in the wildland urban interface. Journal of Forestry, [pub online Nov, 2020] https://doi.org/10.1093/jofore/fvaa042

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., & Evers, C. R. (2020). Research update: Wildfire risk management in northern Utah’s Wasatch region. Portland State University. Portland, OR. Available online: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/maxnp/research/Wildfire/utah-research-update

    • Paveglio, T., & Edgeley, C. (2020). Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition Workshop Report. Prepared for the Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition, Kittitas County, Washington.      

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., & Evers C. R. (2020). Managing Wildfire Risk: A Summary Report on a Survey of the Geography and Network of Wildfire Risk Managers in Northern Utah’s Wasatch Region. Portland State University. Portland, OR.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., & Evers, C. R. (2020). Managing Wildfire Risk: A Summary Report on a Survey of the Geography and Network of Wildfire Risk Managers in Northern Utah’s Wasatch Region. Portland State University. Portland, OR. (Draft Report)

    • Evers, Cody, R. (2020). Tending the fire: Wildfire risk management at the interface.  Dissertations and Theses, Paper 5416, 172 pgs. Portland State University.  Portland, OR.  Available online: https://pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu/open_access_etds/5416/. https://doi.org/10.15760/etd.7289

    • Miller, B. A. (2020). Collaboration and reflexivity in wildland fire risk governance in the Western United States. Ph.D. Dissertation, Utah State University, Logan. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/7937/

    • Glenn, Evora D. (2020). Organizational influence on knowledge co-production. M.S. Thesis, University of Montana. 73p.

    • Paveglio, T., Edgeley, C. M., Carroll, M. S., Billings, M., & Stasiewicz, A. (2019). Exploring the Influence of Local Social Context on Strategies for Achieving Fire Adapted Communities. Fire 2(2), 26. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire2020026

    • Paveglio, T. B., Carroll, M. S., Stasiewicz, A. M., & Edgeley, C. M. (2019). Social fragmentation and wildfire management: Exploring the scale of adaptive action. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 71, 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2018.09.016

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., D. B Jacobs, & Evers, C. R. (2019). Managing Wildfire Risk: A Summary Report on the Geography and Network of Wildfire Risk Managers in North Central Washington. Portland State University. Portland, OR. Available on-line [URL]: https://sites.google.com/a/pdx.edu/maxnp/research/Wildfire.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M. (2019). Research Update – Discussion Draft: The Organizational Network of Wildfire Risk Management in North Central Washington.  Portland State University. Portland, OR.

    • Edgeley, C. M. (2018). Exploring temporal phases of wildfire adaptation: Experiences across socially diverse communities. Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Idaho, Moscow.

    • Paveglio, T., & Edgeley, C. M. (2020). Fire Adapted Community. In Encyclopedia of Wildfires and Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI) Fires. Springer, Cham.

    • Carroll, M. S., & Paveglio, T. (2019). Local community agency and vulnerability influences on a Montana Wildfire. Journal of Forestry, 117(2), 104-113.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., A. Ager, and C. Evers. (2019). Exposure complexity and community capacity to manage wildfire risk: A coupled biophysical and sociological analysis of 60 communities in the western United States.  Fire 2: 59.  https://doi.org/10.3390/fire2040059.

    • Palaiologou, P., A.A. Ager, C.R. Evers, M. Nielsen-Pincus, M.A. Day, and H.K. Preisler. (2019). Fine scale assessment of cross boundary wildfire events in the Western US.  Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 19:1755-1777.  https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-19-1755-2019.

    • Palsa, E., Bauer, M. Evers, C., Hamilton, M., & Nielsen-Pincus M. (2022).  Engagement in local and collaborative wildfire risk mitigation planning across the western U.S. — Evaluating participation and representation in Community Wildfire Protection Plans.  PLoS ONE, 17(2), e0263757. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263757

    • Paveglio, T.B., A. Schmidt, M. Medley-Daniel. (2022).  Fire Adapted Communities Pathways Tool. Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network. https://fireadaptednetwork.org/resources/fac-pathways-tool 114 p.

    • Stasiewicz, A. M., & Paveglio, T. P. (2022). Exploring relationships between perceived suppression capabilities and resident performance of wildfire mitigations. Journal of Environmental Management, 316, 115176.

    • Billings, M., Carroll, M. S., Paveglio, T., & Whitman, K. (2021). ‘Us versus Them;’ Local social fragmentation and its potential effects on building pathways to adapting to wildfire. Fire 4(4), 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire4040096

    • Stasiewicz, A., & Paveglio, T. B. (2021). Preparing for wildfire evacuation and alternatives: Exploring influences on residents’ intended evacuation behaviors and mitigations. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction 58(3), 102177. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2021.102177

    • Palaiologou, P., Essen, M., Hogland, J. & Kalabokidis, K. (2020). Locating forest management units using remote sensing and geostatistical tools in North-Central Washington, USA. Sensors, 20(9), 2454. https://doi.org/10.3390/s20092454

    • Evers, C., Ager, A. A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Palaiologou, P., Short, K., & K. Bunzel, K. (2019). Archetypes of community wildfire exposure from national forests in the western U.S. Landscape and Urban Planning 182, 55-66. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2018.10.004

    • Palaiologou, P., Ager, A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Evers, C., & Day, M. (2019).  Social vulnerability to large wildfires in the western USA.  Landscape and Urban Planning 189, 99-116. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landurbplan.2019.04.006 

  • Presentations

    • Williams, D. R. (2020). Crossing boundaries: The role of place-making and social learning in landscape-scale environmental governance, International Symposium of Society and Resource Management, Cairns, Australia, June 22-26, 2020. (Canceled due to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic).

    • Evers, C.R., Nielsen-Pincus, M. & Ager, A. (2020). Divergent adaptation: A novel assessment of wildfire management networks in two fire-prone regions. April 17, 2020. American Association of Geographers, (virtual session). 

    • Hamilton, M., & Nielsen-Pincus, M. (2020). Cross-Jurisdiction coordination in fragmented risk governance systems. April 17, 2020. American Association of Geographers (virtual session).

    • Essen, M., Williams, D. R., M. Nielsen-Pincus, P. Champ, C. Evers, B. Gray, C. Edgeley, T. Paveglio, L. Yung, C. Wyborn, H. Brenkert-Smith, B. A. Miller, D. Jacobs, J. Riley, A. Ager, M. Carroll & M. Billings (2019). Approaches to Cross-Boundary Wildfire Risk Governance, 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Tucson, Arizona, Nov. 18-21, 2019.

    • Wyborn, C., Murphy, D., Yung, L., & Williams, D. R. (2019).  “Can you tell us which is the most likely scenario?” Reflections on narrative scenarios as a means to build anticipatory decision-making capacities, Earth System Governance Conference, Oaxaca, Mexico, Nov. 6-8, 2019.

    • Glenn, E., Williams, D. R., Wyborn, C. A., Yung, L. (2019). Organizational influence on knowledge co-production, Poster presentation, IUFRO, Curitiba, Brazil, Sept 30-Oct. 5, 2019. (Williams presented).

    • Gray, B., Williams, D. R., Wyborn, C., & Yung, L. (2019). Governing wicked problems across boundaries: the case of wildfire governance in the Western U. S. Subplenary Session presentation, IUFRO, Curitiba, Brazil, Sept 30-Oct. 5, 2019. (Williams presented).

    • Miller, B.A. (2019). Reflexivity in Wildland Fire Systems. International Symposium of Society and Resource Management. Oshkosh, WI, June 2019.

    • Gray, B. (2019). Wildfire Risk Governance across Different Political and Ecological Contexts. 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Conference. November 18-22, 2019. Tucson, Arizona.

    • Glenn, E. (2019). Organizational Influence on Knowledge Co-production. Presentation for students and faculty of the Center for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University. October 2019.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., Evers, C., Ager, A., & Essen, M. (2019).  Community wildfire exposure from national forests of the western US: Archetypes of cross-boundary wildfire risk. November 21, 2019. Association for Fire Ecology, Fire Ecology and Management Congress. Tucson, Arizona.

    • Essen, M., Williams., D. R., Ager, A., Brenkert-Smith, H., Butler, W., Carroll, M., Champ, P., Evers, C., Edgeley, C., Gray, B., Jacobs, D., Miller, B. A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Paveglio, T., Wyborn, C., & Yung, L. (2019). CoMFRT: Co-Management of Cross-Boundary Fire Risk Transmission. First Friday All Climate Change Talks (FFACTs) webinar, USDA Forest Service.

    • Champ, P., Brenkert-Smith, H., Donovan, C., & Paveglio, T. (2019). The Wildfire Research (WiRē) Team: A long-running, research-practitioner collaboration centered around community-specific data. Teton Area Wildfire Protection Coalition. Jackson, WY.

    • Champ, P. (2019). Homeowners and Wildfire: A Science Based Approach to Creating Fire Adapted Communities. Washington State Academy of Sciences 2019 Annual Symposium: Wildfire in Washington State. Seattle, WA (Invited).

    • Jacobs, D., & Nielsen-Pincus. M (2019). Trans-Boundary Wildfire Risk Management Networks: North Central Washington to the Wasatch Front in Utah.  June 21, 2019.  International Network for Social Network Analysis, Sunbelt XXXIX. Montreal, Canada.

    • Edgeley, C., & Paveglio, T. (2019). Co-management of wildfire across scales: A case study of the Kittitas County Fire Adapted Communities Coalition. 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Nov. 18-22. 2019, Tucson AZ.

    • Paveglio, T., & Edgeley. C. M. (2019). Examining support and opposition to fuels reduction projects: The role of local context in the shaping of wildfire adaptation. Presented at the International Symposium on Society and Natural Resource Management, June 2-7, Oshkosh, WI.

    • Paveglio, T., Edgeley, C. M., Carroll, M. Billings, M., & Stasiewicz, A. M. (2019). Evaluating the influence of local social context on the design of “pathways” for achieving Fire Adapted Communities. Presented at the 15th International Wildland Fire Safety Summit and 5th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Dec. 10-Dec. 14, 2019. Ashville, N.C.

    • Carroll, M.S., Billings, M., & Paveglio, T. (2019). The ‘Strings Attached’ in community difference and potential pathways to fire adaptiveness in the Wildland Urban Interface.  International Symposium for Society and Natural Resources, June 2-7, Oshkosh, WI.

    • Essen, M., McCaffrey, S., & Abrams, J. (2019). Evolving the Wildfire Risk Governance System. 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Nov. 18-22, 2019, Tucson, Arizona.

    • Essen, M., & Gray, B. (2019). The Evolving Wildfire Risk Governance System - Special Session. 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress, Nov. 18-22, 2019, Tucson, Arizona

    • Essen, M., Williams.,D. R., Ager, A., Brenkert-Smith, H. Butler, W., Carroll, M.,  Champ, P., Evers, C., Ed& geley, C., Gray, B., Jacobs, D., Miller, B. A., Nielsen-Pincus, M. Paveglio, T.,  Wyborn, C., Yung, L. (2019). CoMFRT: Co-Management of Cross-Boundary Fire Risk Transmission – Wasatch, Utah. Utah Department of Natural Resources – State Forester; invited presentation, Salt Lake City, Utah.

    • Paveglio, T. (2018). Case studies of wildfire co-management, testing of narrative adaptive capacity tool. Presented at the International Symposium on Society and Natural Resource Management, June 17th-21st, Snowbird, UT.

    • Jacobs, D., & Nielsen-Pincus. (2018). Building a structural understanding to trans-boundary wildfire risk management systems.  November 30, 2018. International Network for Social Network Analysis, 2nd North American Social Networks Conference. Washington D.C., USA.

    • Evers, C., Nielsen-Pincus, M., & Jacobs, D.  (2018). Wildfire collaboration networks: An empirical study of network governance of wildfire risk in North Central Washington.  International Association of Wildland Fire Wildfire Continuum Conference. May 21, 2018.  Missoula, MT.

    • Evers, C., Nielsen-Pincus, M. & Jacobs, D. (2018). Wildfire Management Networks. Hotspots of Innovation?  June 19, 2018.  International Symposium on Society and Resource Management. Snowbird, UT.

    • Evers, C., Ager, A. A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Paleologos, P., & Bunzel, K. (2018). A Typology of Community Wildfire Exposure from US National Forests. May 21, 2018. International Association of Wildland Fire Wildfire Continuum Conference. Missoula, MT.

    • Williams, D. R. (2018). Building community capacity for cross-boundary fire risk management. Fire Continuum Conference, Preparing for the future of wildland Fire, May 22, 2018. Missoula, MT.

    • Williams, D. R. (2018). Panel Discussant, Co-Production or social science across institutions to address long-term approaches to cross-boundary wildfire management, International Symposium on Society and Natural Resource Management, June 17th-21st, Snowbird, UT.

    • Wyborn, C., Essen, M., Brenkert-Smith, H., Champ, P., Yung, L., & Williams, D. R. (2018). Co-Producing Research and Responses to Wildfire Risk. The Fire Continuum Conference: Preparing for the Future of Wildland Fire.  May 21-24, 2018.  Missoula, MT.

    • Essen, M., Evers, C., Jacobs, D., Yung, L. Wyborn, C., & Williams, D. R. (2018).   Cross-Boundary and Adaptive Governance to Facilitate Adaptation to Wildfire Risk. The Fire Continuum Conference: Preparing for the Future of Wildland Fire.  May 21-24, 2018.  Missoula, MT.

    • Yung, L., Wyborn, C., Williams, D.R., & Essen, M. (2018). Resilience and Wildland Fire Governance.  The Fire Continuum Conference: Preparing for the Future of Wildland Fire.  May 21-24, 2018.  Missoula, MT.

    • Williams, D. R., & Essen, M. (2018). CoMFRT: Co-Management of Cross-Boundary Fire Risk Transmission. Presentation to the Washington Office of the USDA Forest Service. Dec 6, 2018. Washington D.C.

    • Essen, M., & Williams, D R. (2018). Co-management of Fire Risk Transmission (CoMFRT): A focus on adaptation to reduce shared wildfire risk. International Symposium for Society and Resource Management, June 2018, Snowbird, Utah.

    • Essen, M., Williams, D. R., Velez, A., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Abrams, J, & Minkowicz, H. (2018). Deep Dive Session: Crossing boundaries of wildland fire management in the US, 5th Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Dec. 11-15, Asheville, NC.

    • Essen, M., A. Velez, A. Schmidt, D. R. Williams, H. Minkowitz, M. Nielsen-Pincus, and J. Abrams. (2018). Crossing Boundaries of Wildfire Management in the US - A Deep Dive Special Session. 5th Annual Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire Conference, Asheville, North Carolina.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., Essen, M., & Williams, D. R. (Moderators) (2018). Deep Dive on “Crossing boundaries of Wildfire Management in the US.”  International Association of Wildland Fire 5th Human Dimensions of Wildfire Conference. December 13, 2018.  Asheville, North Carolina.

    • Williams, D. R., & Essen, M. (2017). Improving the co-management of cross-boundary fire risk transmission. National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop, April 2017, Reno, Nevada.

    • Williams, D. R., Ager, A. A., Champ, P., & McCaffrey S. (2017). Improving the Co-Management of Cross-Boundary Fire Risk Transmission, National Cohesive Strategy Workshop, International Association of Wildland Fire, April. 26, Reno, NV.

    • Williams, Daniel R. (2023). Minding the Science-Practice gap in the Wildfire Crisis Strategy: Building capacity for the co-management of wildfire risk transmission (CoMFRT). Feb 16. The Fire Lab Seminar Series. Missoula, MT (virtual)

    • Billings, M., & Carroll, M. S. (2022). Emigration Canyon Utah: A case study of wildfire adaptation in a socially complex local setting. Presented at the 2022 International Association for Society and Natural Resources Conference. June 26-29, San José, Costa Rica.  

    • Miller, B. A. & Yung, L. (2022.) Supporting Cross-Boundary Wildfire Management through Cultural and Structural Change: USFS Washington Office Perceptions. 2022 International Association for Society and Natural Resources Conference. June 26-29, San José, Costa Rica.

    • Paveglio, T. B. (2022). Using social science lessons to advance wildfire adaptation processes. Presented at the Eccles Family Rural West Conference, Bill Lane Center or the American West, April 8-9. 

    • Schmidt, A., & Paveglio, T. B. (2022). Fire Adapted Communities Pathways Tool. Presented at the Wildland Fire Leadership Council Western Region Monthly Strategy Meeting, July 13.

    • Schmidt, A., & Paveglio, T. B. (2022). FAC self-assessment tool/community archetypes introduction; FAC Strategy Workshop Part 1; Federal & state-level partners breakout; FAC strategy workshop part 2. Presented at the FAC Network Annual Workshop, April 25-28, Austin, TX.

    • Schmidt, A., Paveglio, T. B., & Medley-Daniel, M. (2022). FAC Pathways webinar. Fire Adapted Communities Network, Sept. 1.

    • Hamilton, M., Evers, C., Nielsen-Pincus, M., Palsa, E., & Bauer, M. (2021). Developing a Library of Community Wildfire Protection Plans as a Tool to Understand Boundary-Crossing Collective Action.  9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress (virtual session), Dec. 1.

    • Miller, B.A., Yung, L., Gray, B., Carina, W., Williams, D.R., Keith, C., & Essen, M. (2021). Why wildfire is an increasingly transboundary problem: Addressing barriers to collaboration and aligning institutional objectives to improve wildfire governance. 9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress (virtual session), Dec. 1.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., & Evers. C. (2021). Assessing wildfire risk management networks for potential to foster collective action: Applications and research in the US West. 9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress (virtual session), Dec. 1.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., & Evers, C. (2021). A network perspective on wildfire risk management: Comparing north central Washington and Northern Utah. American Association of Geographers (virtual session), April 10.

    • Paveglio, T. (2021). From Checkers to Chess: Using Social Science Lessons Advance Wildfire Adaptation Processes. 9th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress (virtual session), Dec. 1. 

    • Paveglio, T., & Schmidt, A. (2021). Community pathways to adaptation. Presented at the 2021 Fire Networks Workshop.

    • Williams, D. R., & Essen M. (2021). Clinical solutions to wicked problems: A place-based perspective on forest and wildfire governance: Social and Ecological Resilience to Wildfire Risk: The role of collective action. 9th International Fire Ecology & Management Congress (virtual session), Dec. 1.

    • Paveglio, T., Stasiewicz, A., & Edgeley, C. (2020). Understanding support for regulatory approaches to wildfire management and performance of property mitigations on private lands. Presented at the International Symposium for Society and Natural Management (virtual conference), July 11-July 15.

  • Workshops and Trainings

    • Williams, D. R. (2020). Crossing boundaries: Place-making, social learning and adaptive landscape governance. Invited Lecture, University of Illinois, Environmental Studies Program Lecture Series, Champaign, IL, April 10 (presented virtual due to SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic).

    • Brenkert-Smith, H., & Barth, C. (2020). The Quiet Majority: Understanding Communities to Make Mitigation Work. CU Boulder Natural Hazards Center and the Federal Emergency Management Agency webinar series: Making Mitigation Work. https://hazards.colorado.edu/training/webinars/the-quiet-majority-understanding-communities-to-make-mitigation-work

    • Brenkert-Smith, H. (2019). The WiRe Team: Collaborating with practitioners in support of evidence-based programs. University of Colorado - Institute of Behavioral Science Seminar Series, Boulder, CO.

    • Williams, D. R. (2019). Crossing boundaries: Place-making, social learning and adaptive landscape governance. University of Montana, School of Forestry, March 13, 2019, Missoula, MT.

    • Gray, B. (2019). The Process of Risk Governance in the Wildland Urban Interface. Ostrom Workshop. June 19-21, 2019. Bloomington, Indiana.

    • Paveglio, T., C. Edgeley. (2019). Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition Workshop 1 (Oct. 4, 2019). Designed and Facilitated for the Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition. University of Idaho. Moscow, Idaho.

    • Paveglio, T., C. Edgeley. (2019). Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition Workshop 2 (Nov. 15, 2019). Designed and Facilitated for the Kittitas Fire Adapted Communities Coalition. University of Idaho. Moscow, Idaho.

    • Wyborn, C., M. Essen, B. A. Miller, A. Schmidt, J. Riley, and P. Haggerty. (2019). North-Central Washington Wildfire Risk Workshop. Local stakeholder co-production workshop. Wenatchee, Washington.

    • Jacobs, D, Evers, C., Miller, B. A., & Essen, M. (2019). Wasatch Wildfire Risk Co-Management Workshop. Local stakeholder workshop, Salt Lake City, Utah.

    • Williams, D. R., Essen, M., et al. (2018). Social science to increase capacity for co-managing wildfire risk across boundaries. International Association of Wildland Fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy Workshop, March 27-29, Reno, NV.

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., Ager, A., & Evers, C. (2017). Communities at risk from wildfire in the western US: Comparing preparation for and impacts from wildfire in a large cross-section of communities. International Association of Wildland Fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop. April 25, 2017. Reno, NV.

    • Paveglio, T., Carroll, M., & Williams, D. R. (2017). Developing adaptation pathways for the co-management of wildfire: An interactional approach. International Association of Wildland Fire, National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop. April 25, 2017. Reno, NV.

    • Barth, C. (2022). Teton Area Wildfire Protection Coalition + WiRē. Jackson Rotary Club meeting, June 23, Jackson, WY.

    • Barth, C. (2022). Teton Area Wildfire Protection Coalition + WiRē. Community Ambassador Training, June 23, Jackson, WY.

    • Champ, P. A. (2022). Teton Area Wildfire Protection Coalition + WiRē. Teton Area Wildfire Protection Coalition member meeting, June 23, Jackson, WY. 

    • Champ, P. A. (2022). Teton Area Wildfire Protection Coalition + WiRē. Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance annual member meeting, June 23, Jackson, WY.

    • Schmidt, A., & Paveglio, T. B. (2022). FAC self-assessment tool/community archetypes introduction; FAC Strategy Workshop Part 1; Federal & state-level partners breakout; FAC strategy workshop part 2. Presented at the FAC Network Annual Workshop, Austin, Texas April 25-28.

    • Schmidt, A., Paveglio, T. B., & Medley-Daniel, M. (2022). FAC Pathways webinar. Hosted by the Fire Adapted Communities Network, Sept. 1.

  • Other

    • Updated Chelan County Fire District 1 (CCFD1) Rapid Wildfire Risk Assessment Tool - WiRē and CCFD1 collaborated to update the department’s rapid wildfire risk assessment tool. This eleven-attribute assessment tool provides a consistent metric to evaluate the relative risk on private properties. When data are collected across our partner’s service area, the tool allows insight into relative risk among target communities, allowing our partners to prioritize their community engagement efforts. 

    • Arc Collector Rapid Risk Wildfire Risk Assessment App - This App provides a user-friendly interface to collect rapid risk assessment geocoded data that provides baseline data for in our partner’s service area. This field tool syncs with our partner’s database and subsequent data collection efforts can be used to track change in parcel conditions over time. 

    • Paveglio, T. B., Schmidt, A., Medley-Daniel, M. (2022). Fire Adapted Communities Pathways Tool. Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network. https://fireadaptednetwork.org/resources/fac-pathways-tool 114 p.

      • Description – Fire Adapted Communities Pathways Tool: “Improving fire outcomes for communities requires local organizing and action. The FAC Pathways Tool helps communities identify a set of strategies which are tailored to their strengths and needs, and based on practices which have been successful in communities similar to theirs.”

    • Nielsen-Pincus, M., & Evers, C. (2022). Invited blog post for the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network, “How Can Practitioners Leverage their Networks to Maximize Wildfire Risk Reduction?”  September 8, 2022.  Available Online [URL]: https://fireadaptednetwork.org/how-can-practitioners-leverage-their-networks-to-maximize-wildfire-risk-reduction/. 

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