Frank Carroll takes a critical look at the Interior Department’s move to cut conservation partnerships, arguing it signals a shift back toward active forest management, rural engagement, and accountability in wildfire policy.

Dana Tibbitts editorial examines the growing crisis in American wildfire through the lens of discernment—distinguishing between natural fire that sustains ecosystems and altered fire driven by institutional systems, modern materials, and policy incentives. Drawing on both ancient warning and contemporary fire behavior, this piece challenges the collapse of distinction that now defines wildfire management and its consequences for land, communities, and stewardship.

In her June 19, 2026 speech to the annual Idaho Republican Party conference in Meridian, Idaho, Jen Hamaker shares that Forest fire doesn’t send a tax bill, but Idahoans pay for it every year in suppression costs, lost timber value, damaged watersheds, and diminished opportunities for rural communities and future generations.

"Eastern Lane County Catastrophic Wildfires, Toxic Smoke & Opportunity" is a 59-minute video presentation by Dr. Bob Zybach to the Cottage Grove 912 Project on May 5, 2026.

Jim Petersen’s Evergreen essay defines wildfire economics through Bob Zybach’s forest history, scientific debates over old growth, and a hard look at the real dollar costs of suppression, salvage logging, lumber production, biomass, and policy decisions.

This article by Royal Burnett breaks down prescribed fire planning, outlining how to design burn prescriptions with clear objectives, control lines, fuel and weather parameters, contingency plans, and fire‑spread modeling tools that support safe, effective wildland fire use.

This piece traces Steve Pearce’s rise to BLM Director back to New Mexico’s catastrophic 2012 fires, highlighting William Derr fire report, NWA’s four enduring principles on suppression and fuel treatment, and the unresolved policy failures that allow “let burn” wildfires and litigation‑driven management to keep producing avoidable megafires.

In this transcribed and indexed video, William Derr explains the 10 A.M. Policy, condemns “let it burn” wildfire strategies, outlines H.R. 934’s push to restore full suppression, and argues that early satellite detection and stronger Forest Service leadership are key to ending unnecessary megafires.

In this article Bob Zybach, Michael Dubrasich, Greg Brenner and John Marker explain how wildfire cost‑plus‑loss accounting reveals that suppression costs are often just 2–10% of total damages, using the Douglas Complex fire and a simple 11‑category checklist to help citizens, landowners, and officials quantify real wildfire impacts.