The Kathy and Steve Berman
Western Forest and Fire Initiative
at the University of Michigan School for Environment and Sustainability
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As forested landscapes across the U.S. West experience more and more wildfires and smoke events, it is becoming clear that human and ecological communities must adjust their way of functioning to reduce risk.
The Western Forest and Fire Initiative (WFFI) aims to improve understanding of human and ecological adaptation to wildfire smoke risk as a complex system with the goal of informing policy and management interventions to improve the suitability of human and ecological communities to the changing environment.
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WFFI in the News
WFFI in the News
Wildfire Smoke is Reversing Years of US Air Quality - Sept 20, 2023 - A new study published in Nature found that since 2016, wildfire smoke has undone 25 percent of air quality improvements achieved since 2000....Read more
USDA Forest Service Forms Northwest Forest Plan Federal Advisory Committee - July 7, 2023 - Heidi Huber-Stearns, the Theodore Roosevelt Associate Visiting Professor of Practice at the SEAS, has been appointed to a new U.S. Department of Agriculture Federal Advisory Committee to provide advice on modernizing landscape management across national forests within the Northwest Forest Plan area in Washington, Oregon and Northern California... Read more
Our Funders
The Western Forest and Fire Initiative is generously funded by a donation from Steve and Kathy Berman.
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