🔥 The Net Weaver: Lessons Learned from the Thomas Fire, FAC-Communications Quiz, and Wildfire Prep Day Projects 👥

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Welcome New Members!

Meet the network’s newest affiliate members:

Colton Fire Department (Colton, California)
Humboldt County Fire Safe Council (Eureka, California)
WiRē Team (Fort Collins, Colorado)

Read more about FAC Net membership.

FAC Highlights

Tips to share with ranching stakeholders, with a "before, during and after" the fire focus

The science behind the wildland-urban interface narrative, according to Sarah McCaffrey, Ph.D.

Past National Wildfire Community Preparedness Day projects and accomplishments to inspire your 2018 #wildfireprep day project

Reflections from leaders of the Women-in-Fire Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (WTREX)

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News, Opinion and More Resources

Sign up for this February 26 webinar to learn how fuels treatments influenced one wildfire's behavior: Webinar: Milli Fire of 2017, Oregon State University
Explore this ready-to-use fire adaptation curriculum: Citizen Fire Academy: Curriculum Package for Facilitators and Educators, Oregon State University
What's the best way to manage the northern California chaparral? Effects of Two Kinds of Fuel Treatments and Their Season after Ten Years in Northern California Chaparral, California Fire Science Consortium
Better understand the factors that influence residents' decisions about whether (and when) to evacuate: Should I Stay or Should I Go Now? Or Should I Wait and See? Influences on Wildfire Evacuation Decisions, USDA Forest Service (Sarah McCaffrey, et al.)
Gain insight into what determines the "acceptability" of forest thinning: Examining the Social Acceptability of Forest Biomass Harvesting and Utilization from Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration: A Case Study from Western Colorado, USA, USDA Forest Service (Jessica M. Western, et al.)
Watch (or re-watch!) presentations from the 2017 Association of Fire Ecology Conference: 2017 Fire Congress Presentations, Association of Fire Ecology
Learn about proactive models for fire adaptation, including Project Wildfire's approach: Humans Need to Learn to Co-Exist with Wildfires. Here's How We Can Do It, Ensia
Try out this tool to map your populations at risk: Populations at Risk, Headwaters Economics
Hear how one "village potter" is helping his community heal: Ashes from Wildfire Turned into Art, ABC News

Will We See You There?

It's not too late to register for WUI 2018! The 2018 Wildland-Urban Interface Conference runs February 27– March 1, in Reno, Nevada.
The Second Annual National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop is March 26 – March 29, also in Reno, Nevada. A "Fantastic Failure" session, hosted by FAC Net, is among the many great sessions.

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