Medler, students present wildfire research at Texas conference

Five Western Washington University students joined Michael Medler, a WWU associate professor of environmental studies, at the Sixth International Fire Ecology and Management Congress in San Antonio, Texas, Nov. 16 to 19. The students were all founding members of the new WWU Student Chapter of the Association for Fire Ecology.

The conference was an international gathering of 600 researchers and fire management professional. Medler and three WWU graduate students presented their wildfire-related research.