BLAZE: Ecology of Fire

As wildfire claims a larger and larger place in the fabric of our modern lives and we manage the impacts of climate change, Blaze seeks to create an interactive educational exhibition that shifts the paradigm towards a holistic, ecological perspective of fire in hopes of creating better understandings of truly effective forestry practices. Growing up at the base of the Rocky Mountains, catastrophic fire has claimed precious ecosystems close to my heart.

Blaze is an interactive museum style exhibition with a companion website and educational materials based on my independent research project for my Environmental Science minor. This research has involved reaching out for perspectives and information from indigenous fire stewards, forest managers, wildland firefighters, and ecologists. The exhibit is broken up into 8 topics covering key concepts for civic engagement with fire ecology in forests and the future of forestry and fire as the effects of global climate change unfold.