Weekly Aggregation
A new weekly missive featuring the best articles and essays on wildland fire and ecology
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A Roundup of news, articles, and essays engaging with wildland fire:
This New Yorker piece by M.R. O’Connor is a beautiful reflection on wildland fire written by a journalist who embedded herself on a type-2 crew. I have a lot of criticisms about outsiders writing about fire, but this piece (and its writer) deserve none of those. O’Connor trained and worked on a crew, but she kept her sharp writer’s sense of observation. She also interviewed hotshots, scientists, and fire personnel. This piece isn’t only about megafires; it’s about the mental health issues amongst wildland firefighters— how they’re…
