Thoughts on fire – serious, whimsical, contained, and free-burning.
- Lenny – remembering an old crewman
Fire serious ~
- Words on fire from a scholar on fire - keynote address for the Words on Fire workshop at Oregon State University, 1 November 2012.
- The American Fire Community’s Euro Moment – linking deep politics and flash money
- More fires - invited comments for NY Times Room for Debate, but with full text, including paragraphs inexplicably dropped from post
- Forward strategies – thoughts on the still-raging Colorado fires prompted by a request from The Daily Beast
- The three landscapes of American fire - the wild, the working, and the urban, and their respective fire management
- When the small is big – a meditation on fuel and the Wallow fire, and the problems of scale in analyzing fire effects both ecologically and culturally
- Sustaining fire – brief summary of the fire problematique contributed to a special workshop on sustainable fire regimes hosted at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (2011)
- Smokechased – looking back on fire’s American century
- Fire science, fire culture – the power of different ways of knowing fire
- Megafires, or metastasizing fire regimes? – the emergence of a pyric plague
- The WUI within – rethinking the I-zone from the vantage point of the National Fire Protection Association
- Wallowing – an op/ed piece on the Wallow fire, written on request for the Arizona Republic
Fire sideways ~
- Back to the future: analogues for the history to come – presentation to AFE Fire Congress in Portland, Oregon (December 2012)
- The Big Boom – the Baby Boom and the fire revolution
- Subprime fires – wildland fire and the fiscal meltdown, compared
- Spotting pack rats – the biology behind fire behavior
- Prometheus shrugged – America’s fire plutocracy, or how the 1% rules nature’s fire economy
- Figuring the future – alternative models for fire management, not based on quantitative data but on contemporary metaphors
