Paul Hessburg
Wildfire Ecologist | Resilient Forests & Sustainable Communities
About
Paul Hessburg is a research landscape ecologist with the USDA Forest Service Pacific Northwest Research Station. For over 30 years, he has studied the relationships between forests, wildfires, and human communities in the western United States.
Hessburg's work focuses on designing fire-resilient landscapes that protect people while restoring the ecological role of fire. He has published over 150 scientific papers and book chapters, and his TED Talk on rethinking our approach to wildfires has been viewed over 2 million times.
Hessburg's keynotes provide frameworks for communities to coexist with fire and build a more sustainable future.
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Why wildfires have gotten worse -- and what we can do about it
Megafires, individual fires that burn more than 100,000 acres, are on the rise in the western United States -- the direct result of unintentional yet massive changes we've brought to the forests through a century of misguided management. What steps can we take to avoid further destruction? Forest ecologist Paul Hessburg confronts some tough truths about wildfires and details how we can help restore the natural balance of the landscape.
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