The 4th Annual National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop   The best things come to those who wait...and wait. With sincere disappointment, we made the difficult decision to postpone the 4th Annual National Cohesive Strategy Workshop. The theme for the event was “Hard Truths, Fantastic Failures and Landscape Implementation”. Set for Asheville, North Carolina,..

Fire doesn't benefit everything certainly, but in a large landscape, without having periodic fires in most of our ecosystems, we lose what is wild and natural."   ~ Penny Morgan, Professor of Fire and Forest Ecology, University of Idaho ~ The Benefits of Hard Decisions: Applying Lessons from Wilderness Fire This video is intended to spark..

Photo: BLM Utah Living With Fire in 2020 What does "living with wildland fire" look like in the 2020 fire year, given the current social, health, political, and economic challenges? The Cohesive Strategy continues to provide strategic options to make meaningful progress towards the goals of Resilient Landscapes, Fire Adapted Communities and Safe, Effective Wildfire..

Original art by Ava Schmidt, age 12 Project Firehawk: Risk, Ripeness, and the Case for Paper Bags Read about the differences in collective efforts and outcomes in two hypothetical communities faced with wildfire risk: Apple City and Banana Town! In this scenario, imaginatively and effectively crafted by Annie Schmidt, the difference in results had nothing..

Cohesive Strategy Workshop Postponed After careful consideration, we've made the decision to postpone the 4th National Cohesive Wildland Fire Strategy Workshop to October 4-8 2021. This doesn't mean you won't be hearing from us! We'll have some great opportunities to stay in touch until we meet again in person. Stay tuned and we hope to..