Michael Medler
“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…
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,”…
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,”…
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…
Western Washington University's Window Magazine, produced by the Office of Communications and Marketing and edited by Mary Gallagher, recently won three awards at the CASE Region VIII conference in Vancouver, B.C.
The magazine, which competes against publications from…
According to the fossil record, two to three million years ago, humankind’s ancestors lived in East Africa; their brain size was that of a chimpanzee, and these precursors to homo sapiens, called australopithicus, were far more akin to today’s apes than to modern humans.
Then something…
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…
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…
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…
Michael Medler, Western Washington University associate professor of Environmental Studies, will discuss the geography of wildfires as part of the WWU Huxley College of the Environment Speaker Series at 4 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15 in Communications Facility 120.
The presentation is free…