A recent panel discussion (Social Aspects of Wildfire Crisis Work) hosted by the USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station covered a wide range of social science, communication, and fire-adapted communities concepts. While the conversation tended to have a Western U.S. theme, many of the discussion topics can be related to fire in the South. Social science and social aspects can be some of the most complicated, vexing, and challenging aspects of natural resource and wildland fire management. Check out the recording during your next lunch break! You’ll probably learn something.
