Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY In our last episode of the season we process out loud the fire season that is 2020. We hear from folks directly impacted and talk to a certified climate expert to learn how climate change is (or isn’t) causing the fires on the west coast. EPISODE NOTES Cally …
EPISODE SUMMARY Living with fire means different things to different people. In this episode Cally and Collin talk with Jeremy Bailey and Pepe Iniguez about how prescribed fire and managed fire might help us create a pathway that leads us living with fire. We talk about some of the barriers and some interesting marketing strategies. …
Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY We talked with two scientists about life in the Wildland Urban Interface or WUI. We were particularly curious about why people choose to move into these areas even when the risks are well known and have been demonstrated pretty dramatically in the past few years. We wanted to …
Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY Cally and Collin talk with Laura McCarthy and Bill Armstrong about how folks pulled together to restore the forest in the municipal watershed of Santa Fe, NM. From there Laura went on to start the Rio Grande Water Fund which covers 7 million acres in New Mexico. In …
Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY Cally and Collin talk with experts on extreme fire behavior. We learn it is more complex than it seems and the exact definition is hard to pin down. EPISODE NOTES Discussion on extreme fire. How can we prepare for it? How might it change in the future? How …
Released June 26, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. Catastrophic fires in the Southwest are often a double whammy of fire and floods. The floods that followed the 2011 Las Conchas Fire caused massive erosion, impaired water quality, and …
Released June 9, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. There is no single definition of what makes a single fire the “big one.” But there are some common factors: extreme fire behavior, dramatic fire severity, watersheds burned, and communities …
Released May 26, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. Cally and Collin talk with experts on how COVID-19 is changing the way we respond to fires across the Southwest and the US. The virus has umm… infected… every …
In the Southwest, most ecosystems are adapted to some form of wildland fire. Smoke, the major byproduct of fire, is a real health issue, and finding ways to deal with this reality is discussed by several federal employees who work in land management.
Click here to listen to our “Smoke in the Southwest” podcast by Caitlyn Burford.
