I'm the Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, part of the USDA Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. My work focuses on fire management in federal wilderness areas, including the challenges, benefits, and barriers to the use of human-ignited fire in wilderness. My research on this topic has been published in BioScience and Fire Ecology.
Previously, my science writing has appeared in publications for the Rocky Mountain Research Station and Northern Research Station (Forest Service R&D) and the University of Minnesota, and in literary magazines such as Guernica. I am currently at work on a memoir - Wild Light: Notes from the Safest, Most Dangerous Places - about my three seasons as a wildland firefighter, forthcoming from Beacon Press.
