Matthew Hurteau
@mhurteau.bsky.social
Forest ecologist studying forest-fire-climate interactions.
www.hurteaulab.org www.firescenter.org
www.hurteaulab.org www.firescenter.org
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I am giving a CalFire webinar tomorrow, Nov 25, at 3pm PDT on our work on Eastern Sierra post-fire forest regeneration, tree-shrub relationships, and cheatgrass invasion in the region (cue hissing noise). Register here!
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November 24, 2025 at 11:38 PM
I am giving a CalFire webinar tomorrow, Nov 25, at 3pm PDT on our work on Eastern Sierra post-fire forest regeneration, tree-shrub relationships, and cheatgrass invasion in the region (cue hissing noise). Register here!
events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com/event/d08db5...
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Craig Finn, Patterson Hood, and Alejandro Escovedo. Wow!
November 20, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Craig Finn, Patterson Hood, and Alejandro Escovedo. Wow!
While grateful for the snow, this will form the persistent weak layer for the 25/26 season in northern NM.
⚠️ New Mexico's first Winter Weather Advisories of the season go into effect Wednesday night for the northern mountains. 3-7" of snow is likely, with up to 10" across mountain peaks. 4-8" are likely in the Colorado San Juans.
November 20, 2025 at 12:12 AM
While grateful for the snow, this will form the persistent weak layer for the 25/26 season in northern NM.
Scott Stephens and I have written an editorial on what we think is necessary to select for leadership in land management agencies so they are able to manage our public lands during rapid change. @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
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November 18, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Scott Stephens and I have written an editorial on what we think is necessary to select for leadership in land management agencies so they are able to manage our public lands during rapid change. @ecologicalsociety.bsky.social
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RIP Todd Snider. Many great shows
Todd Snider, Rambling Troubadour Who Helped Shape Alt-Country and Americana, Dead at 59
Todd Snider, the rambling troubadour who helped shape the Americana music movement, has died at 59.
www.rollingstone.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:31 PM
RIP Todd Snider. Many great shows
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New paper out! We document tornado-strength (98 mph) counter-rotating vortices that developed within California’s 2021 #DixieFire. These fire-generated vortices reshaped the fire front and spread, posing immediate risks to firefighters and civilians. doi.org/10.1175/MWR-...
November 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
New paper out! We document tornado-strength (98 mph) counter-rotating vortices that developed within California’s 2021 #DixieFire. These fire-generated vortices reshaped the fire front and spread, posing immediate risks to firefighters and civilians. doi.org/10.1175/MWR-...
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I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
Landkeeping
With rising temperatures, longer summers, drought, and more wildfires occurring in the United States and Canada, there is growing interest in the impact and efficacy of Indigenous fire and cultural bu...
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November 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I’m pleased to share that a book I’ve coedited, *Landkeeping: Restoring Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Ecological Partnerships* is now available for preorder everywhere books are sold—including at the OSU Press website, where the promo code S26 will extend a 20% discount and free shipping to you.
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When fire season declines in the western U.S., it picks up in the east. Dry October & Novembers are wildfire season before winter freeze, especially in Appalachia.
Same solutions: more prescribed fires, cultural burning, fuel treatments & public awareness of risk.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Same solutions: more prescribed fires, cultural burning, fuel treatments & public awareness of risk.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Virginia crews fighting wildfires in Jefferson National Forest
The U.S. Forest Service and Botetourt County Fire Department have been working to keep two fires under control since Wednesday.
www.wusa9.com
November 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
When fire season declines in the western U.S., it picks up in the east. Dry October & Novembers are wildfire season before winter freeze, especially in Appalachia.
Same solutions: more prescribed fires, cultural burning, fuel treatments & public awareness of risk.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
Same solutions: more prescribed fires, cultural burning, fuel treatments & public awareness of risk.
www.wusa9.com/article/news...
While at Teakettle two weeks ago, the camera crew documenting the fire prefaced a question about the 3200 ac prescribed burn as it being a really large Rx fire. I came home from that trip and this was getting buttoned up. The mean Rx size here is larger than 3200 ac.
November 7, 2025 at 11:07 PM
While at Teakettle two weeks ago, the camera crew documenting the fire prefaced a question about the 3200 ac prescribed burn as it being a really large Rx fire. I came home from that trip and this was getting buttoned up. The mean Rx size here is larger than 3200 ac.
Still relevant: Study Finds Controlled Washington, D.C. Wildfires Crucial For Restoring Healthy Political Environment — theonion.com/study-finds-...
Study Finds Controlled Washington, D.C. Wildfires Crucial For Restoring Healthy Political Environment
WASHINGTON—Calling the process essential to preventing overgrowth and promoting renewal, a study released Tuesday by researchers at American University found that regular, controlled Washington, D.C. ...
theonion.com
November 5, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Still relevant: Study Finds Controlled Washington, D.C. Wildfires Crucial For Restoring Healthy Political Environment — theonion.com/study-finds-...
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New Mexico experienced the 7th warmest October on record, highlighted by above average warmth all across the state. Northwest New Mexico had one of the wettest Octobers on record, thanks to the remnants of two tropical systems. #NMwx
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 AM
New Mexico experienced the 7th warmest October on record, highlighted by above average warmth all across the state. Northwest New Mexico had one of the wettest Octobers on record, thanks to the remnants of two tropical systems. #NMwx
Installed sensors at Teakettle this weekend. I broke down 5 times. The District Ranger requested that I tell ‘the truth’ about the fire and the forest. Here you go…
October 29, 2025 at 12:27 AM
Installed sensors at Teakettle this weekend. I broke down 5 times. The District Ranger requested that I tell ‘the truth’ about the fire and the forest. Here you go…
Please, oh please. How much time is wasted on pdf forms where the form developer did not create a form that is fillable with reader.
October 23, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Please, oh please. How much time is wasted on pdf forms where the form developer did not create a form that is fillable with reader.
I think it’s important to pitch in for my community. I now have a side hustle as a lime scooter relocation specialist. If you grab the battery handle and the rear fender, you can get a good grip…
October 22, 2025 at 12:11 AM
I think it’s important to pitch in for my community. I now have a side hustle as a lime scooter relocation specialist. If you grab the battery handle and the rear fender, you can get a good grip…
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Following up on Greg Weaver’s Fresnoland article on Teakettle, this podcast mentions “Tribal burn collaboratives,” but there’s another story or two yet to be reported about the Sierra-Sequoia Burn Cooperative’s continuing ties to Teakettle. open.spotify.com/episode/7he5...
@fresnoland.bsky.social
@fresnoland.bsky.social
When the Forest Service Failed the Forest: Inside the Garnet Fire
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October 19, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Following up on Greg Weaver’s Fresnoland article on Teakettle, this podcast mentions “Tribal burn collaboratives,” but there’s another story or two yet to be reported about the Sierra-Sequoia Burn Cooperative’s continuing ties to Teakettle. open.spotify.com/episode/7he5...
@fresnoland.bsky.social
@fresnoland.bsky.social
Hit the 5000 mile mark for the year on my way to work today. Tells you just how bad this past winter was since I was riding and not skiing.
October 17, 2025 at 10:55 PM
Hit the 5000 mile mark for the year on my way to work today. Tells you just how bad this past winter was since I was riding and not skiing.
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Yet another reminder that 1) wildfire is inevitable and 2) if we don’t implement proactive wildfire management actions (such as prescribed fire), our forests are toast. 🔥
Excellent piece by Greg Weaver @fresnoland.bsky.social reporting the problems that led to the loss of Teakettle. We need to future-proof our land management agencies so that internal bureaucratic process and structure does not continue to cause inaction.
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
October 16, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Yet another reminder that 1) wildfire is inevitable and 2) if we don’t implement proactive wildfire management actions (such as prescribed fire), our forests are toast. 🔥
Unfortunately, on federal lands this year we are missing another prescribed fire window because of the government shutdown. We are frittering away opportunity every time we put up additional roadblocks to the use of prescribed fire.
It's the season for prescribed fire - an important step to reducing fuel loads in our forests.
This article from Ecology & Society focuses on RX burns in Greece and how proactive prevention can get lost as a method to reduce catastrophic wildfires.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a...
This article from Ecology & Society focuses on RX burns in Greece and how proactive prevention can get lost as a method to reduce catastrophic wildfires.
ecologyandsociety.org/vol30/iss3/a...
October 15, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Unfortunately, on federal lands this year we are missing another prescribed fire window because of the government shutdown. We are frittering away opportunity every time we put up additional roadblocks to the use of prescribed fire.
Excellent piece by Greg Weaver @fresnoland.bsky.social reporting the problems that led to the loss of Teakettle. We need to future-proof our land management agencies so that internal bureaucratic process and structure does not continue to cause inaction.
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
October 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Excellent piece by Greg Weaver @fresnoland.bsky.social reporting the problems that led to the loss of Teakettle. We need to future-proof our land management agencies so that internal bureaucratic process and structure does not continue to cause inaction.
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
fresnoland.org/2025/10/14/g...
Another excellent day on the trail.
October 11, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Another excellent day on the trail.
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Henry Farrell on the Trump admin’s proposed “compact” for universities, arguing that the rollout signals weakness, and that academics need to band together to reject this authoritarian attack on university independence and academic freedom.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/o...
October 8, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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“collaborators were awarded over $5M to launch a prescribed fire across 3,300 acres…it would have been a key demonstration to show that planned fires can burn safely at a large scale…The groups were scheduled to start building fire breaks in September…But then the Garnet Fire ignited Aug. 24…”
‘All the trees are dead’: An ancient California forest has been wiped out
Old growth forests across the West are at risk of disappearing within 50 years. The Teakettle Experimental Forest is a tragic example in California.
www.sfchronicle.com
October 5, 2025 at 8:49 PM
“collaborators were awarded over $5M to launch a prescribed fire across 3,300 acres…it would have been a key demonstration to show that planned fires can burn safely at a large scale…The groups were scheduled to start building fire breaks in September…But then the Garnet Fire ignited Aug. 24…”
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It turns out that if you ask the Delta chatbot why their app sucks, it connects you with customer service after it states “sorry, I’m still learning”. A hard lesson to learn.
October 1, 2025 at 9:35 PM
It turns out that if you ask the Delta chatbot why their app sucks, it connects you with customer service after it states “sorry, I’m still learning”. A hard lesson to learn.