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- Ralph Bloemers | Living with Fast Fires through Wildfire Gardening & Ignition Resistant Homes | December 15th, 2025 (no slides)
- Dominick DellaSala | Extreme Climate & Extreme ‘Active Management’ Drive Unprecedented Losses/October 27, 2025 (slide deck here)
- Chad Hanson | Giant Sequoias and High-Intensity Fire Revisited | September 15, 2025 (slide deck here)
- Bryant Baker | Understanding the Elfin Forest: What to Know About Fire in the Chaparral, Plus Lessons Learned from the LA Fires | January 27, 2025 (slide deck here)
- Chad Hanson | Why Recent Wildfires are the Salvation of Giant Sequoia Groves | January 22, 2024 (click here to view the presentation slides)
- George Wuerthner | Why Forest Thinning Proposals are Misguided | November 25, 2024 (see slides)
- Chad Hanson | Mixed-Intensity Forests: Nature's Phoenix | October 21, 2024 (slide deck here)
- Dominick DellaSala | Have Western Fire Suppression and Megafire Active Management Approaches Become a Contemporary Sisyphus? (slide deck only, no recording available| May 15, 2023
- Chad Hanson | Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate | March 20, 2023 (slide deck)
- Bryant Baker | Why Recent Claims About Fire- and Drought-Related Tree Mortality and Forest "Loss" Are Overstated | Feb. 27, 2023 (slide deck)
- Opinion: We've Got it All Wrong About Sequoias and Wildfire, 2023
- Fueling the Next Rim Fire, 2019
- Rethinking Forest Fires, 2021
- Fire-Proofing Forests is Not Possible, 2021
- Infrastructure Spending Should Not Facilitate Sawing Down Our National Forests, 2022
- Fire Suppression Myths, 2022
- Why the Fix Our Forests Act will backfire in the long run, 2025
- Opinion: Politicians aren't connecting climate change with wildfires | Edmonton Journal, 2024
- Thinking Like A Forest – The Wildlife News
- Logging to ‘Save’ Northern Spotted Owls From Wildfires Will Not End Well
- When the Land Speaks Through Fire: Indigenous Wisdom, Memory, and Stewardship of the Living Landscape - Indigenous Climate Hub
- High Severity Blazes Influence On Bee Species Diversity And Abundance – The Wildlife News
- George Wuerthner: Home-hardening is better than logging for fire protection | Guest Columnists | bozemandailychronicle.com
- Feb 27, 2026_Why the Built Environment Matters_Cohen
- ‘Forest management’ misdirection worsens community wildfire threats, 2/25
- Fire Scar Studies Count Fires, Not The Ecological Influence Of Wildfires – The Wildlife News, 3/26
- USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests - Inside Climate News
- ‘Active Management’ Harms Forests — And It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse, 2025
- Why Thinning Forests is Poor Wildfire Strategy - Western Watersheds Project
- Logging in disguise: How forest thinning is making wildfires worse, 2021
- Commentary: Don't believe everything about forest thinning, 2024
- Viewpoint: Forest thinning intensifies global warming
- Is Reducing Wildfire Fuels Common Sense? – The Wildlife News
- Open Letter to Decision Makers Concerning Wildfires in the West, Geos Institute, 217 scientists sign letter opposing logging as a response to wildfires, 2018
- The Active Forest Management Scam, 2021
- Viewpoint: Consequences of unrestrained logging, thinning
- Viewpoint: Work on the Community, Not the Forest
- Should One Remove Adjacent Vegetation By Homes?
- What ‘Three Little Pigs’ can teach us about wildfire preparedness | Guest Perspectives, 2025
- Why the Fix Our Forests Act will backfire in the long run, 2025
- Opinion: Politicians aren't connecting climate change with wildfires | Edmonton Journal, 2024
- Thinking Like A Forest – The Wildlife News
- Logging to ‘Save’ Northern Spotted Owls From Wildfires Will Not End Well
- When the Land Speaks Through Fire: Indigenous Wisdom, Memory, and Stewardship of the Living Landscape - Indigenous Climate Hub
- Opinion | Here’s how we can stop LA firestorms from recurring, Cal Matters, 1/2026/ Chad Hanson
- Extreme Weather Magnifies the Effects of Forest Structure on Wildfire, Driving Increased Severity in Industrial Forests
- Retrofitting a Home for Wildfire Resistance
- Unintended consequences of fire suppression
- Wildland-urban Fire Disasters aren't Actually a Wildfire Problem
- The Fossil Fuels Behind Forest Fires | PDF Report
- Have western USA fire suppression and megafire active management approaches become a contemporary Sisyphus? | Elsevier Enhanced Reader
- Huge forest fires don’t cause living trees to release much carbon, OSU research shows, 3/14/2022
- Does increased forest protection correspond to higher fire severity in frequent-fire forests of the Western United States, Bradley et al, Ecosphere, 2016
- Global Change Biology | Environmental Change Journal | Wiley Online Library, 8/20/2025
- As wildfires worsen, science can help communities avoid destruction, 10/2025
- Removing dead trees will not save us from fast-moving wildfires | PNAS, 11/25
- Lawsuit May Limit Use of Categorical Exclusion Clause For Logging Projects – The Wildlife News, January, 2026
- Retrofitting a Home for Wildfire Resistance
- Home-Mitigations-that-Matter-FINAL.pdf
- Headwater Economics_2023_Missing-the-Mark-Wildfire.pdf
- Wildfire and insurance options for homeowner coverage - Headwaters Economics
- USDA Says It Needs Roads to Fight Remote Wildfires, but a New Study Says Roads Bring More Fire to Forests - Inside Climate News, 3/26
- Industry-managed forests more likely to fuel megafires, study finds, 2025
- Hardening California’s homes: Can CA build to resist wildfire? - CalMatters, 2025
- Emergency Forest Cutting Will Exacerbate Wildfires – The Wildlife News, 2025
- Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging - The Washington Post, 2025
- Is Colorado cutting down too many trees to fight wildfires? - The Colorado Sun, 2025
- The Truth Behind Forest Management: Dr. Chad Hanson on The Deception of Thinning and Fire Prevention – The Wildlife News, January 2025
- It’s The Wind Stupid – The Wildlife News, 2024
- Forest thinning isn't the answer to bushfires, 2024
- Forests Know How to Protect Themselves from Fire, 2024
- Another Timber War Looms
- Is the Forest Service "Falsifying the Scientific Record" on Wildfires? With Chad Hanson, PhD, 2023
- Combining Science with Poetry to Protect Post-Fire Forests: the Activism of Maya Khosla, 2023
- Landmark Study Finds Pattern of "Falsification of the Scientific Record" in Government-Funded Wildfire Studies, 2023
- California’s giant sequoias are burning up. Will logging save them?, 2022
- Despite what the logging industry says, cutting down trees isn’t stopping catastrophic wildfires, 2020
- 'Zone zero' early adopters fared better in L.A. County fires, report finds - Los Angeles Times
- Opinion: 'Fix Our Forests Act' would worsen wildfire threat in California, Mercury News, 12/2025
- Mixed Severity Fires: Nature’s Phoenix 2nd Edition, Dominick A. DellaSala (Author), Chad Hanson (Author), Elsevier Science, 2024
- Wildfire, A Century of Failed Forest Policy, George Wuerthner, Island Press, 2006
- Trees in Trouble: Wildfires, Infestations and Climate Change, Daniel Mathews, Counterpoint Press, 2020
- Smokescreen: Debunking Wildfire Myths to Save Our Forests and Our Climate, Chad Hanson, Kentucky Press, 2021