Amanda Monthei

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The funny thing is that I'm fairly certain the author of these books was in the Wildfire subreddit last year asking some extremely specific questions (with full admission of what she was working on) and the community was really kind/helpful with her requests! www.amazon.com/Sky-Ridge-Ho...

Was talking to a groups of 50-ish year old women at a concert last night. They asked what I did and I told them about my wildfire work. One went “OH! I just read a series of *spicy* novels about hotshots! I learned so much about firefighting from it!”

Is smut an underrated form of #scicomm? lol

Thank you so much for sharing, Murphy!

The Social Contract of Managing Fire with Stephen Pyne Podcast Episode · Life with Fire · 07/17/2025 · 45m

Thank you @amonthei.bsky.social for a very thoughtful conversation about the north rim situation. If you care about our terrible relationship with fire and getting more good fire on the ground, this is the podcast for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...

Medical debt shouldn’t ever be a thing in a developed country. No other Western industrialized nation has it.

Founders League Founders League is the exclusive, national pickleball league for founders and CEOs.

I HAD to know more, their membership criteria page is insufferable lol foundersleague.cc/criteria/

Hard-hit Texas county had no flood warning sirens despite years of discussions State and local officials in Texas have come under scrutiny over the lack of sirens in place to warn people of impending flash flooding.

My Roman empire is that some version of the headline below could happen in almost every county in the US right now if it experienced a disaster.

We need to sit with that and then figure out how to do better—quickly.

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Anyone know where to find smoke data or live-ish prescribed fire/wildfire maps for (northern) Spain? Was great weather for burning today and I biked by at least two sizable burns, was hoping to find more info about them!

Community-level resilience has been a heavily requested topic by listeners over the years, but I could never give it the space I think it needed—I'm immensely grateful to Fire Aside for supporting my efforts to explore this topic from multiple angles and perspectives!

Ep. 76—Community Resilience Series Ep.3: Preparing for and Recovering From Megafires with Butte County Fire Safe Council Executive Director Taylor Nilsson Welcome to the third and final episode of our Community Wildfire Resilience Series, supported by Fire Aside! In this episode, we spoke with Butte County Fire Safe Council Executive Director Taylor Nil...

In our final episode of the series we spoke with Butte County Fire Safe Council ED Taylor Nilsson, who talked about the realities of recovering from and preparing for megafires, often simultaneously. Butte County has had over 90% of its WUI burned in 1999! lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...

Ep. 75—Community Resilience Series Episode 2: The Importance of Scaling Up Home Risk Assessments with Fire Aside CEO Jason Brooks Welcome to the second episode in our series about community-level wildfire resilience, supported by Fire Aside! We spoke with Fire Aside CEO and co-founder Jason Brooks about how Fire Aside—a home ass...

Ep. 2 was with Fire Aside CEO Jason Brooks, who spoke to the importance of scaling up home risk assessments and how Fire Aside fills this critical gap, particularly as more data is needed to inform state-wide policy (which connects to our previous ep.) lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...

Ep. 74—Community Resilience Series Ep. 1: California Wildfire Policy (And So Much More) with Former CAL FIRE Chief Deputy Director Chris Anthony Welcome to the first episode in a three-part series about community wildfire resilience, sponsored by Fire Aside.  This episode explores a number of big, meaty topics you’ve likely been hearing about ...

The first episode was with former CAL FIRE chief deputy director Chris Anthony, who spoke to big picture policy considerations in the community resilience space (particularly in CA, where Chris now consults with a number of fire-adjacent orgs and companies): lifewithfirepodcast.com/episodes/com...

I just finished up a month-long podcast series (supported by @fireaside.bsky.social), all centered on Community Wildfire Resilience. My approach to this conversation was to start as big as possible—with community resilience policy in California—and end at the community/implementation scale.

A red card is required to respond to wildfire incidents, whether as a firefighter, information officer, logistics chief or other roles that support firefighting operations. So anyone who goes out on wildfires either as part of their normal job or on top of their normal job would have a red card.

I don't have anything longer form yet. I just heard these numbers this morning, though many fire folks have been ringing the alarm on this since cuts started in February. We're about to enter the "find out" phase of f*ucking around and finding out.

We will, without a single doubt, be short of firefighters and fire support folks this year. This will, without a single doubt, impact firefighter safety.

Due to DOGE cuts, RIFs and early retirements, the Forest Service has lost 1600 red-carded individuals and five complex incident management teams (the teams that manage the large, complex incidents that you see on the news) ahead of what is expected to be an active wildfire season.

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I will keep this in mind! I spoke with Susan Jane Brown (www.silvixresources.org/about) on this topic last week and am hoping to release that episode soonish. But I'm also working on a substack post about this topic and may need additional interviews/context to make that happen as well. Thank you!

A home insurance crisis is building in the Mountain West. State leaders are struggling to respond Homeowners insurance is getting more expensive and harder to keep. Lawmakers in our region introduced more than a dozen policy proposals in response this year.

The home insurance crisis is coming to a town near you. Reporting by @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social!
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‘Active Management’ Harms Forests — And It’s About to Get a Whole Lot Worse • The Revelator Forest management approaches promoted as “resilience,” “restoration,” “fuel reduction,” and “forest health” often degrade natural systems and reduce carbon stocks.

Center for Biological Diversity (@biologicaldiversity.org) recently published an opinion piece: "‘Active management’ harms forests — and it’s about to get a whole lot worse." Given that this article has considerable bearing on my profession, allow me to offer a different point of view. 🌎🍁🔥🌳

One reason the feds aren't discussing the situation & planning with state/local resources is because they aren't allowed to do so. Seeing it all laid out in this article is bracing.

We are already well behind the curve & stand no chance of getting ahead of the 2025 fire year. Prepare accordingly.

Still amazed that these two maps are not making more news and generating more public comment. Especially given the intentionally degraded capacity of the federal wildland fire service.

Collapse and restoration of mature forest habitat in California Mature and old-growth forests provide critically important ecosystems services and wildlife habitats, but they are being lost at a rapid rate to uncha…

New paper alert -- Gavin Jones strikes again!

Key findings:
• Fire-driven complete loss of mature forest habitat in California is possible by 2100 under 'business as usual'.

• Active forest restoration could slow or reverse trends of mature forest loss.
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Thanks for your ongoing coverage of this, Murphy!

thank you for reading, as always <3

Reality Check: We're On Our Own Thoughts on preparing our communities to lose federal funding for disaster preparedness, response and recovery.

A powerful piece by @amonthei.bsky.social about the daunting future of natural disasters.

Something I think about a lot: We will never be able to prevent wildfires. Sorry, we just won't. Humans on the whole have dumb and sometimes malicious tendencies. It's well past time to accept this reality, from coast to coast, no matter how "at-risk" your community is.

My staunchly conservative father—who used to call me a treehugger for ordering a salad at dinner—is now talking about food dyes and GMOs. Consider this a strong indicator that RFK's messaging has reached the last offline holdouts in the rural Midwest.

Just noticed I have two new podcast reviews. It's all about balance!

Here is the statement that I just got from NIOSH on the status of the National Firefighter Registry for Cancer, perhaps the most ambitious effort to date to understand the firefighting-cancer connection. This is a huge deal.