This article explains 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.

In this transcript, 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.

This piece traces Steve Pearce’s controversial rise to BLM Director back to New Mexico’s catastrophic 2012 fires, highlighting the 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.

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.

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

"Eastern Lane County Catastrophic Wildfires, Toxic Smoke & Opportunity" is a 59-minute presentation by Dr. Bob Zybach to the Cottage Grove 912 Project on May 5, 2026. The presentation was videotaped by Jim Lockhart for ORWW educational purposes and edited by Lockhart and Zybach to accurately document the images and discussion.

In her June 19 speech, 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.

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.

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 reports on the new partnership between the National Wildfire Alliance and the Rogue Siskiyou Regional Wildfire Training Center (RSR), a partnership focused on building a year‑round wildfire workforce, rapid response capacity, and long‑term forest and community resilience across the American West.

Rachel Lee Hall is a forest photographer and educator documenting forest stress, thinning, and prescribed fire in Southern Oregon’s Rogue River–Siskiyou National Forest. Her work with Forest Under Stress highlights how filtered sunlight, open canopies and Active Forest Management restore respiration, soil moisture, and resilience while reducing catastrophic crown fire risk.