Western Cohesive Strategy Newsletter Archive

Newsletter #55

• Collaborative Landscape Planning and Fuels Reduction Pays Off 

• "Why I Burned My Property and How I Shot It"

• Public - Private Partnerships Paying Off During Montana Fires

• An Assessment of Wildfire Transmission and its Implications for Risk Governance

• Teaching Fire with Fire

• Increases in Wildfire-Caused Erosion Can Impact Water Supply and Quality

• What the Joint Fire Science Program Can Do for You

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #54

• Federal Judges Changing Views of Collaborative Forest Restoration Projects

• Significant Steps towards More Prescribed Fire in California

• Next Gen Sagebrush Restoration Framework

• Integrating Traditional Knowledge in Montana

• The Art and Science of Home Wildfire Evaluations

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #53

• Living (Dangerously!) in the Era of Megafires

• More Effective Firefighting with FiRE Tool

• Washington State Takes Fire Adapted Communities Full Circle

• Fires of Change on the Road

• Using Prescribed Fire for Rangeland Health and Resilience

• Prescribed Fire Requires a Balancing Act

• Who's Missing? Thinking about Wildfire Resilience through an Equity and Inclusion Lens

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #52

Apologies - the links to each story did not work in this issue.  However, clicking on the link "Newsletter #52" will take you to the full newsletter.  


Newsletter #51

• Cohesive Strategy Science and Implementation Workshop a HUGE Success!

• Turning Dead Trees into Oil

• Short Term Costs for Long Term Dividends in the Sierra Nevada

• Grass Roots Effort Unveils Plan to Treat Large Landscape

• Using Drones to Combat Fires

• Blending Education and Fun in South Dakota

• NACo's Western Interstate Region Provides Audience for Learning Lab

• Wildfire Community Preparedness Day: What Happened?

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #50

• Like a Good Neighbor...

• Building Fire Adapted Communities in Montana

• Make a Plan Mondays

• Launching Firewise Communities in Hawaii

• Resiliency Project Begins in the Black Hills

• Changing Culture in Washington State

• It's Not Too Late - REGISTER NOW!!

• A Tradition of Fire in Nebraska

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #49

• Cohesive Strategy Science and Implementation Workshop REGISTER NOW!!

• Forests to Faucets Partnership

• All Hands, All Lands Approach for Western Governors

• Arizona Town Redeems its Responsibility

• Record Year for Controlled Burns by The Nature Conservancy

• Cultural Burning for Everyone's Benefit

• Wildfire Evolution Forces New Thinking

• Wyoming Nets $1.4 Million for Collaborative, Cross-Boundary Projects

• Using Science to Help Communities Address Risk

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #48

• Utah Shifting its Wildfire Strategy from Reactive to Proactive with New Wildland Fire Policy

• IAWF Working for a Higher Standard

• Leveraging Partnerships for $2 Million in Kansas

• From CWPP Recommendation to Implementation on the Ground

• USAA Adds New Mexico and Utah for Homeowner Discounts  

• Wyoming Nets $1.4 Million for Collaborative, Cross-Boundary Projects

• Using Science to Help Communities Address Risk

• Cohesive Strategy Implementation and Science

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #47

• Cohesive Strategy's Western Regional Strategy Committee Sets Priorities for 2017

• Wildland Fire Leadership Council Prepares for Administration Transition

• More Fire in Utah but Tolerable and Healthy

• Management and Restoration Indicators for Forests in Eastern Oregon

• Veterans Workforce for Mitigation in South Dakota

• Firetopia - It's Not a Fantasy

• Cohesive Strategy Implementation and Science

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #46

• Wyoming and South Dakota Cohesive Strategy Workshop a Great Success

• Shared Problems, Shared Solutions

• Climate Change Has Doubled Fires

• Walk Into Wildfire

• Idaho Makes Good Use of Good Neighbor Authority

• Love Your Beer, Love Your Forest

• How Do You Want Your Smoke?

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #45

• WFLC Holds Productive Fall Meeting in Idaho

• Native Traditional Methods Revived to Combat Drought and Wildfire in California

• Carrots, Sticks and the "Stupid Zone"

• Using Fire for Resource Benefit Helping Restore Sierra Nevada Forests

• 38,000 Acre Learning Laboratory

• Cross Boundary Field Tour Demonstrates Cohesive Strategy in Action

• 2016 State & Private Forestry Report Out

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #44

• Recreating the Forests of the Past Isn't Enough to Fix Our Wildfire Problems

• Using Prescribed Fire as the First Treatment Instead of Mechanical Entries

• Does Insurance Affect Home Development on Fire-Prone Lands? 

• Test Project in Arizona to Burn Forest Fuels at a Coal Plant

• Clearing the Smoke from Wildfire Policy

• Winning at Communications

• To Manage or Suppress: The McClure Fire Example

• Using the 99% Fires to Combat the 1% Fires

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities

Newsletter #43

• Shifting the Paradigm to Managing Fires for Their Natural Role

• Implementing the Cohesive Strategy in Southern Utah

• County Commissioners Learn and Share How to Work Across Jurisdictional Boundaries to Become More Fire Adapted 

• Western Governors Set Priorities through Resolutions

• Collaborative, Community Driven Action in Pagosa Springs, CO

• Seeking Remedies for the 'Socioecological Pathology' of Wildfire Risk

• Upcoming Learning Opportunities