Michael Medler
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| The College of the Environment's Michael Medler gives presentation in Stockholm | 2023-05-31 | ||
| Oregon's comprehensive & contentious wildfire response bill left for the last week in session | “I challenge anyone to talk about a solution at that scale,” said Michael Medler, a professor at Western Washington University whose research focuses on mapping and analyzing natural disturbances such as wildfires. “If money is going to be spent and thinning is going to be done, most of those… |
2021-06-18 | |
| Oregon lawmakers consider new rules for wildfire prevention | Michael Medler, an assistant professor at Western Washington University who has also worked as a firefighter, said the more than 5 million acres in Oregon that need thinning and burning treatment are “too big a problem to just get in there and solve with saws.” “That’s a massive area,”… |
2021-03-17 | |
| Oregon lawmakers consider new rules for wildfire prevention | Michael Medler, an assistant professor at Western Washington University who has also worked as a firefighter, said the more than 5 million acres in Oregon that need thinning and burning treatment are “too big a problem to just get in there and solve with saws.” “That’s a massive area,”… |
2021-03-17 | |
| US Northwest towns ‘woefully unprepared’ as fire risk grows | With historically short summers, the swath of densely forested coastal territory stretching from British Columbia into northwestern Oregon has long been cloaked in a protective veil of moisture, making even medium-sized fires relatively rare. So-called “megafires” — enveloping hundreds of… |
2019-08-05 | |
| WWU's Window Magazine wins trio of awards at recent CASE conference | 2019-03-07 | ||
| WWU’s Michael Medler Presents Hypothesis on Lava, Fire and Human Evolution at Annual AGU Conference in San Francisco | 2016-01-25 | ||
| Medler, students present wildfire research at Texas conference | 2015-12-28 | ||
| Using Technology to Find Hidden Graves | One morning in July 2005, Amy Mundorff rode into the Bosnian countryside, tagging along with a team from the International Commission on Missing Persons. The roads wound past forests, farmland and villages. The group stopped near a field in a hilly area on the outskirts of a village to meet an… |
2015-11-03 | |
| Forest Service wants more controlled burns in state | The U.S. Forest Service wants more controlled burns in Washington forests to help make them more resistant to summer wildfires. But rules administered by the state Department of Natural Resources are a roadblock to this fire prevention approach in Washington, the The Seattle Times… |
2015-10-12 |