Interactive Panel: Fired Up—Human Dimensions of Wildland Fire

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As human settlement increases in the wildland-urban interface, increased study of communities in these areas to address their level of wildfire adaptivity, and how it can be improved locally, is needed. Managers can tend to ignore the local social context and complexity of communities, forcing ineffective solutions. How can we create effective solutions to adapt communities to live with fire?’ Bring your burning questions to our expert panelists!

This webinar was live on Thursday, February 26, 2026 from 5:15 - 6:45 pm ET.

A recording is available through February 26, 2027.

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This webinar panel is intended for student members of SAF throughout the country to connect with interesting topics, as well as to connect with each other. This panel will allow students to explore new questions and develop new perspectives on wildland fire. This panel is reserved for those student members as they broaden their education.

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The recorded session is accessible within the Contents tab (to the right of the Overview information) and will be available through February 26, 2027.

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This program is 1 hour and 30 minutes.

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Mark Billings

Assistant Professor

School of the Environment; College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences; Washington State University

Mark Billings is a faculty member in the School of the Environment at Washington State University (WSU), where he teaches and conducts research at the intersection of human dimensions of environmental issues, sustainability, and natural resource sociology. Billings’s academic work centers on the social context of environmental challenges, particularly in the realm of wildfire adaptation, land management, and community resilience. His research examines how local social complexity shapes risk reduction strategies in landscapes affected by wildfire and how communities adapt to environmental hazard uncertainties, contributions that have appeared in peer-reviewed research exploring social pathways toward fire adaptation in the wildland-urban interface. Within the WSU academic community, Billings has also been recognized as a Faculty Fellow, reflecting his engagement in teaching innovation and student success.

Christopher I. Roos

Environmental Archaeologist, Professor of Anthropology, and Professor of Earth Sciences

Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University

Christopher I. Roos is an environmental archaeologist whose primary areas of interest and expertise are in human pyrogeography and behavioral geoarchaeology. For two decades, he has directed interdisciplinary research projects on the long-term interactions of human societies, climate, and wildfire in the southwestern United States. More recently, Roos has expanded his fire work to include collaborative research projects in Montana, Fiji, and Australia. Roos' scholarship has been extensively funded by the National Science Foundation and has appeared in various peer-reviewed journals, including Science, Science Advances, Nature Ecology & Evolution, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Archaeological Science, and Journal of Biogeography.