I study forests and fire 🔥. Thus, climate too. Professor at Western Colorado University.
Jonathan Coop
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NEW EPISODE of #FireEcology Chats! 🔥Alyssa Worsham and Jonathan Coop discuss how the right kind of fire can shrink the gap between existing and ideal conditions in U.S. wilderness areas #SNFECO Listen here: https://fireecology.org/feco-podcast/ep82
I wrote an op-ed on the world-class STEM research ecosystem in the United States, and how this ecosystem is now under attack on multiple fronts by the current administration: newsletter.ofthebrave.org/p/im-an-awar...
A great illustration from NM today of how recent wildfire burn scars can contain new fires. This is why you want a mosaic of burn scars (prescribed and wildfire) on the landscape. So any new fire gets boxed in by the old ones.
Some nice media exposure on our new paper published in @globalchangebio.bsky.social pertaining to expanding area burned by high severity wildfire. 🌍🔥
Thank you, @murphywoodhouse.bsky.social, for raising awareness about this important paper.
Tagging bsky co-author @coopecology.bsky.social.
Though this is not a tree-ring fire scar, for #firescarfriday here is an interesting pic of landscape burn severity patterns from the 2025 Rabbit Creek Fire (DA-007) in the Yukon Territory.
As I understand it, the unscorched tree lines are thought to be the product of horizontal wind vortices, parallel to the direction of spread at higher wind speeds but forming concentric circles at lower wind speeds. Refugia for understory species. Also note unburned island of mixed aspen+conifer.
