Life with Fire
Hosted by Gaby Eseverri · Amanda Monthei
4.9from 187 ratings
- 82
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 187
- Ratings
- 2020
- First episode
About Life with Fire
What are the benefits of prescribed burning? Why have wildfires gotten so severe lately? How can I help protect my home and community? Life With Fire podcast aims to answer these questions (and many others) while deepening our understanding of the critical role fire plays in America’s forests, lands and communities. Hosted by writer and former wildland firefighter Amanda Monthei, Life with Fire features interviews with everyone from scientists to fire management experts to Indigenous practitioners and folks doing the work on the ground. Through these interviews, Amanda hopes to explore our relationship with fire, as well as ways we can better coexist with it in the future.
- Publisher
- Amanda Monthei
- Category
- history · science · society & culture
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 15 Aug 2020
- Latest episode
- 22 Jun 2026
Latest episodes
22 of 82 episodes have a transcript.
22 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
Using Tree Rings To Better Understand Fire History in the PNW with Dr. Andrew Merschel
19 May 2026TRANSCRIPT
Bringing Wildfire Public Information Into the Modern Era with Noah Baker
19 Mar 2026TRANSCRIPT
Latine Forestry Workforce Part 3 (Spanish Version): La Fuerza Laboral Latine en el Sector Forestal y Por Qué la Solidaridad es Importante con Manuel Machado
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Using Tree Rings To Better Understand Fire History in the PNW with Dr. Andrew Merschel
Published 22 Jun 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And many of those acres came in just one burn period, which is to say one single day of burning. And this really got a lot of folks interested in how fires behave in the West Cascades. It was long assumed that the West Cascades only experienced these high severity, infrequent wildfires like those that we saw over the Labor Day fires in 2020. But Andrew's research over the last few years has indicated that it's a lot more of a complex history than what we previously thought and what was previously assumed. So most of this episode is focused on the Western Cascades. So when we say the West Side, we mean Western Cascades, the Western Crest, typically known to be pretty moist, pretty dense, a lot of doug fir, some hemlock, some spruce. […]
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- Dr Andrew Merschel
- Noah Baker
- Manuel Machado
- Taylor Nilsson
- Jason Brooks
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.8 / 5
- 120 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.9 / 5
- 67 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 62 / 100
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- Quality
- 84
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 0
- Engagement
- 98
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Gaby Eseverri host the show. Published by Amanda Monthei.
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