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(PDF) Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century PDF | The 1964 Wilderness Act is a landmark piece of legislation, providing robust protections from development, mechanization, and resource extraction... | Find, read and cite all the research you ne...

My research team recently published “Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century.” If you’re interested in wilderness philosophies, Indigenous stewardship, and the questions raised by climate change and fire - this one’s for you!

www.researchgate.net/publication/...

What a $3 Million Fire-Resistant Home Looks Like After losing his house to the L.A. wildfires, a developer built a new one designed to resist an active fire for around six hours.

Interesting article in the @wsj.com by Katherine Clarke about a rebuild in the Pacific Palisades area. Two things to note - expensive but not crazy build costs plus a massive savings generated on insurance. www.wsj.com/real-estate/...

🔥 Critical Fire Weather Monday 🔥
“Critical” is rare for #Florida - a couple times of year. And it’s the first of 2026 due to very dry air, gusty winds and drought-stricken crisp ground. Please take great care as any fire that ignites will spread rapidly. This will be a challenging #fire season!

Warming Raises the Risk That Multiple Wildfires Strike at Once Firefighters combat a grass fire in Alexandra, Australia, in January. Jay Kogler / SOPA Images / LightRocket via Getty Images 

Hot, dry, windy conditions are increasingly arising in multiple regions at the same time, setting the stage for simultaneous wildfires around the world, a study shows. via @vox.com

One scientist talking to two others. "These days. If you're not a mad scientist, you're not paying attention."

Me. I'm a mad scientist.

(Paul Noth cartoons)

Solid-state EV batteries are rolling out in China, promising nearly 1,000 miles of range Chinese battery manufacturers already account for well over 50% of the global market, but new battery types, including solid-state, are...

EV battery technology continues to astound! 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋 electrek.co/2026/02/24/s...

Exposure of western United States bird communities to predicted high severity fire - Nature Communications Changing fire regimes, leading to higher likelihood of high severity fire, are having unknown impacts on biodiversity. This study identifies regions of high avian biodiversity and individual bird spec...

Really proud of my paper with @ecologyofgavin.bsky.social, @grumpyunclesean.bsky.social, Andrew Stillman, and Courtney Davis out now in @natcomms.nature.com, which looks at the forecasted exposure of bird biodiversity to high severity fire in the western US. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Ecosystems At Risk If This Pine Tree Vanishes From Rockies Underway in the West is an environmental calamity that threatens a pine species that helps control spring meltwater that fills reservoirs communities depend upon, holds cultural significance to tribal...

Some nice media exposure about the threatened whitebark pine that highlights one of our recent studies.

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Democracy may die in darkness, but it also seems you can kill it in broad daylight.

None of what's happening now would be possible without gop enablers. They own all of it. The gop is the party of evil. Vote them all out.

More than 87m people impacted by climate-related disasters in 2025 In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to preliminary figures from the International Disaster Database analyzed by Mongabay. The d...

In 2025, more than 200 climate-related disasters affected more than 87.8 million people worldwide, according to prelim figures from the International Disaster Database. The disasters include flash floods, landslides, severe storms, wildfires & droughts. news.mongabay.com/short-articl...

Smash hit! A whopping eight people are in attendance at the 315 showing of Melania in Missoula

Yet another stroke of genius from POTUS 🔥

Map of Western US showing snow-water equivalent by basin. Most basins are well below the historical median with the Northwest, Great Basin, NorCal, and the Southwest all below 50% of historical averages.

OK, as we go into February, I'm officially worried about our snowpack numbers across the Western US. Less snow means dryer soils and fuels heading into the summer and I don't like fire years where the high country comes online early.

I was literally looking at the same map this morning!!

Share your comments on NCAR with NSF Tell NSF the future that you want for NCAR by 13 March

@agu.org has a tool to help you submit a comment to NSF on the importance of NCAR: agu.quorum.us/campaign/154...

#SaveNCAR

Yeah, I remember MTG was promoting something similar to this conspiracy theory. Too bad these sorts of conspiracy theories gain traction. Another line of evidence that our system is failing.

OMG. I'm at a hotel bar preparing to give a wildfire lecture (the best place to prepare a lecture). The dude next to me starts talking about a conspiracy theory stating there is a laser weapon that started all the recent wildfires in Canada. We've got some whacky people in the US! 🔥

I would strongly encourage those who value the scientific & societal legacies of NCAR to offer feedback by March 13. I would expect, under present circumstances, perspectives from industry partners will be especially critical, though everyone's voice is of course important.

Is there a way to specifically pay 1% of your taxes with a promise to send the rest when the Epstein files are released?

Asking for America.

Watch: Videos refute DHS account of fatal shooting in Minneapolis Federal officials described the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by a federal agent as an act of self-defense. The video evidence that has surfaced so far contradicts that assertion.

Federal officials described the fatal shooting of a 37-year-old U.S. citizen by a federal agent as an act of self-defense. The video evidence that has surfaced so far contradicts that assertion.

Wake up. Make breakfast. Do email. Watch a murder. Go to a party for a 5 year old. Laugh with my daughter. See a different angle of that murder. Hear govt officials slander the victim. Play Barbies with my kid. Feed her dinner. Tear up at that victim reading last honors to a vet. Put kid to bed. USA

This graphic is really great.

I wish two things:

1. Ryanair operated in the US.

2. People would cancel Starlink (I know a lot of people who dislike Musk but still have Starlink; I wish they’d not give that a$$hole their money)

How do I apply for this job. I’ll be CEO for 46 million. Shit, I’ll do it for 4.6.

I so wish there was an edit option here. Anyway tagging this as a wildfire post since the paper that was misrepresented in the DOE report was all about fire.
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I also dismissed the report based on its content

The jokers who authored the DOE report totally misrepresented one of my peer-reviewed papers (page 69 of the report). They are either 1) purposely spewing disinformation or 2) not smart enough to understand the paper. I guess it could be both.