Latest Wildfire podcast Podcast Episodes
How Wildfires Are Impacting Outdoor Recreation, with Jamie Ervin
Life with Fire - August 23, 2022 07:00 - 31 minutesWelcome to the first episode of our four-part series discussing the impacts of wildfire on recreation, sponsored by Protect Our Winters! For this episode, Jamie Ervin of the Outdoor Alliance walked us through the myriad ways that wildfires create barriers to recreation access and enjoying the ou...
Hotshot Crew to Grad School, with Harrison Raine
Life with Fire - August 11, 2022 07:00 - 47 minutesHave you seen that C̶o̶l̶l̶e̶g̶e̶ Hotshot shirt from Hotshot Brewery (you can look at it here if you're unfamiliar)? This episode's guest Harrison Raine walks us through doing both of those things at once—and shares why he thinks more firefighters should pursue fire-adjacent degrees and careers ...
Underdiscussed, Poorly Understood: Prescribed Fire Liability Insurance with Daniel Godwin
Life with Fire - June 30, 2022 16:21 - 46 minutesListen—we know that prescribed fire liability insurance is a big, scary topic. But we encourage you to check out this episode, because while liability insurance is one of the bigger challenges in getting more "good fire" on the ground, it's also one of the least understood and more infrequently ...
Indigenous-Led Fire Stewardship with Amy Christianson
Life with Fire - June 02, 2022 07:00 - 47 minutesHow can First Nation and Indigenous communities regain power over their long-honed land stewardship and cultural burning practices? How can these practices be done without the influence of Westernized practices, which includes prescribed burning? Today's guest Amy Cardinal Christianson, a Métis...
Indigenous-Led Fire Stewardship with Amy Cardinal-Christianson
Life with Fire - June 02, 2022 07:00 - 47 minutesHow can First Nation and Indigenous communities regain power over their long-honed land stewardship and cultural burning practices? How can these practices be done without the influence of Westernized practices, which includes prescribed burning? Today's guest Amy Cardinal Christianson, a Métis...
How Can Fire Culture Become More Inclusive? with Triss Seemiller
Life with Fire - May 12, 2022 07:00 - 43 minutesTriss Seemiller is a trans woman who started gender-affirming hormone therapy when she was on a shot crew in California. She transitioned soon after she left the crew. She has occasionally felt uneasy about sharing her identity with coworkers since transitioning, and in this episodes walks us th...
A Life Of Fire as a Trans Woman, with Bobbie Scopa
Life with Fire - April 13, 2022 07:00 - 50 minutesBobbie Scopa has had quite a long and storied fire career—she recently retired after 45 years working in both wildland and municipal fire, during which she worked her way into the Chief position and into numerous leadership positions over her career with the Forest Service. Notably, she was pres...
Women in Wildfire Episode 3: Diversity in Fire with Jane Park (Part Two)
Life with Fire - March 22, 2022 19:02 - 37 minutesIn the second half of our conversation with Jane Park, we spoke about some of the diversity initiatives that Jane has spearheaded within Banff National Park and Parks Canada as a whole. We also spoke about Jane's experiences of working in fire as a Korean-Canadian woman and type 1 incident comma...
Diversity in Fire with Jane Park (Part Two)
Life with Fire - March 22, 2022 19:02 - 37 minutesIn the second half of our conversation with Jane Park, we spoke about some of the diversity initiatives that Jane has spearheaded within Banff National Park and Parks Canada as a whole. We also spoke about Jane's experiences of working in fire as a Korean-Canadian woman and type 1 incident comma...
Women in Wildfire Episode 2: Prescribed Fire Management in Banff National Park with Jane Park
Life with Fire - March 14, 2022 19:09 - 31 minutesIn our second episode of the Women in Wildfire series, we brought on Banff National Park Fire and Vegetation Management Specialist Jane Park, who on top of being a profound presence in the wildfire and prescribed fire management space is also, quite simply, really frickin cool (and very fun to c...
Prescribed Fire Management in Banff National Park with Jane Park
Life with Fire - March 14, 2022 19:09 - 31 minutesIn our second episode of the Women in Wildfire series, we brought on Banff National Park Fire and Vegetation Management Specialist Jane Park, who on top of being a profound presence in the wildfire and prescribed fire management space is also, quite simply, really frickin cool (and very fun to c...
Women in Wildfire Episode 1: From Fashion Week to the Fireline with Celilo Miles
Life with Fire - March 08, 2022 22:13 - 23 minutesThere's a chance you've seen Nez Perce wildland firefighter and model Celilo Miles in a recent advertisement for Victoria's Secret—in it, she wears Nomex pants and holds her hard hat, emblazoned with the Nez Perce Tribe's fire management program logo. After seeing the ad making the rounds in the...
From Fashion Week to the Fireline with Celilo Miles
Life with Fire - March 08, 2022 22:13 - 23 minutesThere's a chance you've seen Nez Perce wildland firefighter and model Celilo Miles in a recent advertisement for Victoria's Secret—in it, she wears Nomex pants and holds her hard hat, emblazoned with the Nez Perce Tribe's fire management program logo. After seeing the ad making the rounds in the...
Creating Connections Through Community Forests
Life with Fire - March 01, 2022 16:45 - 33 minutesThe Mt. Adams Resource Stewards in Washington State is an excellent example of a hyper-local solution to community fire resilience. Started in 2004 by this week's guest, Jay McLaughlin, the organization now boasts a community forest, a 10-person stewardship crew, community development programs a...
Creating Connections Through Community Forests with Jay McLaughlin
Life with Fire - March 01, 2022 16:45 - 33 minutesThe Mt. Adams Resource Stewards in Washington State is an excellent example of a hyper-local solution to community fire resilience. Started in 2004 by this week's guest, Jay McLaughlin, the organization now boasts a community forest, a 10-person stewardship crew, community development programs a...
Michael Wara Part 2: Sustainability of the Suppression Workforce + Lots More
Life with Fire - February 17, 2022 19:29 - 29 minutesIn the second half of their conversation, Michael Wara and Amanda briefly dive into the nitty gritty of liability regimes as they relate to both wildland and prescribed fires, how smoke will continue to impact communities across the West and finally, how the current suppression workforce structu...
Michael Wara Part 2: Sustainability of the Suppression Workforce, Among Other Things
Life with Fire - February 17, 2022 19:29 - 29 minutesIn the second half of their conversation, Michael Wara and Amanda briefly dive into the nitty gritty of liability regimes as they relate to both wildland and prescribed fires, how smoke will continue to impact communities across the West and finally, how the current suppression workforce structu...
The Reality of Burning 50 Million Acres in 10 Years with Michael Wara
Life with Fire - February 01, 2022 17:51 - 32 minutesPresident Biden recently rolled out a plan to treat 50 million acres of land with fire over the next 10 years. The question is—is 50 million acres actually realistic with the system we have in place right now? We spoke with environmental law and policy expert Michael Wara about the logistics of ...
The Tim Hart Act and Channeling Grief with Michelle Hart
Life with Fire - January 19, 2022 19:31 - 21 minutesWhen smokejumper Tim Hart died from injuries sustained during a hard landing in New Mexico in May, his wife Michelle Hart quickly realized that she needed a way to channel her grief. She also realized she was in a unique position to draw attention to the needs of wildland firefighters—she had a p...
Climate Change Impacts on High Severity, Low Frequency Fire Regimes with Phil Higuera
Life with Fire - January 07, 2022 08:00 - 57 minutesWe covered such a broad range of subjects with guest Phil Higuera in this episode that it was hard to nail down a title. Nonetheless, Phil's expansive research background lended well to a conversation that covered paleoecology, how lake sediment is used to determine events that happened 13,000 y...
Do You Find Yourself Walking on Eggshells Around Others?
Soulfire Sessions: Stories of Self-Discovery - December 03, 2021 13:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsWhen we are busy living the lives others expect of us we begin to wonder if we are doing things right. Are we living up to their expectations? There is no reason to live this way. What steps can you take to work your way into your own way of life? Maybe something in this podcast can help?
Four Decades of Fire, with Sue Husari (and Guest Host Zeke Lunder)
Life with Fire - November 30, 2021 17:03 - 46 minutesThis episode's guest, Sue Husari, went from pounding dirt as the first woman to work for the Lassen Hotshots in 1976 to an eventual role as the Fire Management Officer for the Pacific West Region of the National Park Service, from which she retired in 2012. In between, she saw fundamental change...
How Are You Maximizing Your Ability To Communicate?
Soulfire Sessions: Stories of Self-Discovery - November 26, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThere are times to text and then there are times you really need to hear someone's voice or see them in person to communicate properly. Especially, in times where things can easily get lost in translation.
Growing from a Person That Reacts to a Person that Responds
Soulfire Sessions: Stories of Self-Discovery - November 22, 2021 13:00 - 19 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsOne of the most powerful tools a person can have is the ability to respond to life situations rather than reacting. Discover some things that may help you on your journey to transcend the behavior of reacting and turn it into response ability.
What The Infrastructure Bill Means for Wildland Firefighters with Riva Duncan
Life with Fire - November 16, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutesHow will the infrastructure bill impact wildland firefighting and our overall fire resilience? We spoke with Riva Duncan—who is the executive secretary of the Grassroots Wildland Firefighter Coalition—about the bill and its implications for the wildland fire workforce. In addition to providing s...
How Do You Define Success As A Couple?
Soulfire Sessions: Stories of Self-Discovery - November 15, 2021 13:00 - 14 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDive into the heart of personal transformation with "The Fire Within," a podcast that delivers 10-15 minute bursts of insight and wisdom drawn from the rich tapestry of our lived experiences. Whether it's breaking free from entrenched habits and unresolved trauma, opening your heart, or evolvi...
Homes as Fuel with Zeke Lunder, Yana Valochovic and Eric Knapp
Life with Fire - November 15, 2021 08:00 - 38 minutesOur first guest-hosted (an in-person) episode is live! In this episode, Zeke Lunder of "The Lookout" cameos as host of Life with Fire, and sits down with fire researchers Yana Valochovic and Eric Knapp at his office in Chico, CA. They spoke about Valochovic and Knapp's research on the Camp Fire,...
What Do YOU Believe?
Soulfire Sessions: Stories of Self-Discovery - November 12, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsThe world is full of "facts" and "truths" when these are nothing more than another person's perspective. Does this mean you just have to choose from offered perspectives? Absolutely not. Question everything, we say. Go deeper and find YOUR truth. It will set you free!
All Things Cultural Burning with Karuk Tribal Member Bill Tripp
Life with Fire - November 08, 2021 21:05 - 47 minutesIn this episode, we explore one of the topics that is most requested by Life with Fire listeners—cultural burning. We spoke with Karuk tribal member Bill Tripp about his early experiences of cultural burning, and how those experiences reflect in his current work as Director of Natural Resources a...
Forgiveness is the Doorway to Everything Great in Life!
Soulfire Sessions: Stories of Self-Discovery - November 08, 2021 13:00 - 12 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsIt is easy to hold grudges and wish others some level of karma for their actions. Remember, the world doesn't happen to you, it happens with you. Let go and forgive so what YOU receive is in alignment with your higher purpose.
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