College of Forestry

Oregon State University, the Fire Adapted Communities Network, Northwest Fire Science Consortium, and partners hosted the Adapting Together workshop - an engaging gathering designed to transform how we adapt to and coexist with wildfire - at the Skamania Lodge in Stevenson, WA, in early March.

Workshop participants included students, early career professionals, nonprofit organizations, agencies, scientists, practitioners, Tribes, and policymakers involved in wildfire adaptation in Northern California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana.  

Together, participants explored and advanced: 

1. What kinds of place-based adaptation are happening around the broader Northwest, and what capacity and resources do they require?
2. How do we maintain and grow a focus on fire's ecological and cultural roles while protecting communities?
3. What kinds of local partnerships, economic strategies, and policies will help us become more fire-adapted?
4. In the next five and ten years, who needs to work together and how so that we can collectively coexist with fire?