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USGS Firelight

Welcome to the USGS Firelight newsletter, providing you updates on the latest USGS fire science for a changing world. Each issue features a variety of our wildland fire science, providing information, data and tools for use by managers before, during, and after fires. If you are interested in receiving future issues of Firelight, please subscribe to our mailing list.

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Firelight - Vol. 3 | Issue 1

May 1, 2025

Firelight - Vol. 3 | Issue 1

Wildfires are increasingly modifying sagebrush lands across the western U.S, reducing native sagebrush communities and increasing fire risk to...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 3

December 11, 2024

USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 3

This issue of Firelight highlights the USGS Fire Science Support for the Department of the Interior (DOI) project, addressing recent legislation on...

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USGS Firelight: PHIRE Edition - Vol. 2 | Issue 2

June 21, 2024

USGS Firelight: PHIRE Edition - Vol. 2 | Issue 2

Welcome to the special Post-Fire Hazards Impacts to Resources and Ecosystems (PHIRE) issue of Firelight! The PHIRE project provides science to...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 1

April 27, 2023

USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 1

This issue of Firelight focuses on place-based USGS fire science. We broadly define place-based science as “Science that is built on long-term, field...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 4

November 15, 2022

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 4

In issue 4 of the Firelight, we turn our eyes…and research…to fire disaster science. After a Presidential declaration of a wildfire disaster...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 3

July 25, 2022

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 3

This issue of Firelight focuses on the use of remotely sensed data in addressing a wide range of wildland fire science and management applications...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 2

March 29, 2022

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 2

This issue of USGS Firelight features USGS fire science projects supporting conservation and restoration of the sagebrush biome. The highlighted...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 1

December 20, 2021

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 1

This is the first issue of the USGS fire science newsletter, "Firelight". It was an important action called for in the USGS Wildland Fire Science...

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Wildland Fire Science Coordinator

Michele Crist

Wildland Fire Science Program Coordinator (Acting)/Wildland Fire Science Program Manager

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Firelight - Vol. 3 | Issue 1

May 1, 2025

Firelight - Vol. 3 | Issue 1

Wildfires are increasingly modifying sagebrush lands across the western U.S, reducing native sagebrush communities and increasing fire risk to...

Read Newsletter

USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 3

December 11, 2024

USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 3

This issue of Firelight highlights the USGS Fire Science Support for the Department of the Interior (DOI) project, addressing recent legislation on...

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USGS Firelight: PHIRE Edition - Vol. 2 | Issue 2

June 21, 2024

USGS Firelight: PHIRE Edition - Vol. 2 | Issue 2

Welcome to the special Post-Fire Hazards Impacts to Resources and Ecosystems (PHIRE) issue of Firelight! The PHIRE project provides science to...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 1

April 27, 2023

USGS Firelight - Vol. 2 | Issue 1

This issue of Firelight focuses on place-based USGS fire science. We broadly define place-based science as “Science that is built on long-term, field...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 4

November 15, 2022

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 4

In issue 4 of the Firelight, we turn our eyes…and research…to fire disaster science. After a Presidential declaration of a wildfire disaster...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 3

July 25, 2022

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 3

This issue of Firelight focuses on the use of remotely sensed data in addressing a wide range of wildland fire science and management applications...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 2

March 29, 2022

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 2

This issue of USGS Firelight features USGS fire science projects supporting conservation and restoration of the sagebrush biome. The highlighted...

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USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 1

December 20, 2021

USGS Firelight - Vol. 1 | Issue 1

This is the first issue of the USGS fire science newsletter, "Firelight". It was an important action called for in the USGS Wildland Fire Science...

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Wildland Fire Science Coordinator

Michele Crist

Wildland Fire Science Program Coordinator (Acting)/Wildland Fire Science Program Manager

Wildland Fire Science

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mcrist@usgs.gov

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