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Defining wildfire economics

What the hell is wildfire economics? The answer runs from firefighting aircraft and litigation to salvage logging, sawmills, replanting, and

Jim Petersen Sep 30, 2026

What Wildfire Smoke Carries

Fire ecologist Leda Kobziar on living microbes, public health, and why wildfire smoke must become our responsibility. Coughing and struggling

Jim Petersen Sep 23, 2026

How Wildland Fire Policy Shifted Danger from Firefighters to Everyone Else - and How the Forest Service Lost the Public Along

Jim Petersen Sep 12, 2026

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