Hidden in plain sight: Turning data into action
Emergency services on the Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, serve communities dispersed across mountainous and wilderness terrain, so proactive wildfire hazard mitigation and evacuation planning are key to community preparedness. (Forest Service photo by Bradley Gordon)
In fire-prone communities…
#EmergencyPreparedness, #RuralCommunities, #FireAdaptedCommunities, #FirePreparedness, #Partners, #Partnerships, #FireScience, #Science
The country that raised us
Jim and Iris Willadsen, 91 and 90, spent their lives watching the landscape around Pole Mountain change.They remember when the road across the mountain was gravel. When cowboys slept at a nearby camp and poker games could be heard until daylight. They remember when the mountain belonged largely to the military, not the public, and recreation was limited.Through all those changes, one thing…
#Grazing, #Cows, #Rangeland, #People, #RuralCommunities, #Ranching, #Economy, #EconomicOpportunity, #Wyoming
Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration
Partners from rural areas in Colorado and New Mexico gather in a field near Chama, New Mexico, during a field trip about the Rio Chama restoration project. The work is across the Santa Fe, Carson, Rio Grande, and San Juan national forests and connected lands. The partnership works on the…
#Collaboration, #CollaborativeForestLandscapeRestorationProgram, #Restoration, #Partnerships, #EcosystemServices, #Landscapes, #ForestRestoration, #SharedStewardship, #ClimateResilience, #RuralCommunities, #ForestManagement, #ForestHealth, #Conservation, #NaturalResources
Alaska sustainability strategy boosts food systems
Sustainable Southeast Partnership Chilkat Valley Community Catalyst Katrina Aklá Hotch also works in and supports the Klukwan Aan Táayi (Community Garden). (Photo courtesy of Ḵaa Yahaayí Shkalneegi Muriel Reid)
ALASKA — Tucked up into the northern extents of Southeast Alaska’s Inside Passage…
#Food, #RuralCommunities, #Community
Reducing wildfire risk and supporting rural economies
This aerial view of Lincoln County illustrates the heavily forested lands intermixed with homes and infrastructure. (USDA Forest Service photo)
Lincoln County Montana is a beautiful place. Heavily forested, with the Cabinet Mountains as a backdrop, the vistas are what draw people here.…
#Smoke, #RuralCommunities, #Landscapes, #PileBurning, #ConfrontingTheWildfireCrisis, #FuelReduction
Communities coalescing
Jamestown Mitigation Project Vimeo.mp4 from The Watershed Center on Vimeo.America’s western forests are at risk. We are losing natural treasures to increasingly severe and frequent wildfires. These fires rage through overgrown, dense forests, fueled by drought, wind and terrain. And they threaten nearby towns and cities that rely on these forests for water and recreational opportunities.To…