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Bipartisan Bill to Create First-Ever Respiratory Protection Requirements for Federal Firefighters
Senator Schiff's website | Nov 2025U.S. Senators Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) and John Curtis (R-Utah.) introduced the bipartisan Healthy Lungs for Heroes Act, legislation to create the first-ever respiratory protection standards for wildland firefighters.
Rooted in Fire and Community
Ecotrust | Sept 2025For his deep commitment to restore fire as a practice of Indigenous land stewardship, advance policy that supports tribal fire practices, and inspire new generations of leaders, Ryan is honored with the 2025 Indigenous Leadership Award.
New Leaders Initiative | Oct 2025The Brower Youth Awarded to Kyle Trefny for his work as a researcher, organizer, wildland firefighter, and co-founder of FireGeneration Collaborative.
Cultivating (Bio)Culture with Fire
Terralingua | Aug 2025An essay written by Annabelle Law, organizer at FireGen and researcher at the Ecosystems Workforce Program, about the cultural burns hosted by the North Fork Mono Tribe.
Committee Democrats Introduce Bill to Elevate Tribal Leadership in Land Management
Democrats Natural Resources Committee | May 2025“This bill on co-management is a fundamental step forward to restore forests and our communities who have managed them for thousands of years.”
NBC 16 KMTR Eugene | Jan 2025“There is a lot of power that needs to be distributed into the proactive aspect. It's wintertime now, where work and strategy-making has to be done now."
Tribal Sovereignty & The Northwest Forest Plan
Coast Range Radio | Feb 2025“Best available science means Indigenous science as well.”
SURVIVORSHIP INTO THRIVORSHIP WITH RYAN REED
Good Fire Podcast | April 2025
Ryan Reed talks about how the younger generations are leading the way into the future.
Native America Calling | Nov 2023They’re bringing traditional fire knowledge to a new generation who are inheriting some of the worst conditions for destructive wildfires in history. We’ll talk with some of those gathered for this year’s Indigenous Peoples Burning Workshop.
A Wildland Firefighter Argues for Setting More Fires
Willamette Weekly | September 2023“Reed, who is the sole member of the general public appointed to a 20-member advisory committee that’s crafting an amendment to the Northwest Forest Plan, which controls the use of 24.5 million acres of federally managed lands along the Cascades.”
Fire as medicine: Using fire to manage forests, prevent catastrophic wildfires in the Northwest
The Oregonian | September 2023“We as humans have a responsibility to the landscapeWe’ve had a disconnect with the reciprocal relationship with the landscape and now we’re starting to feel the consequences.”
Teen Vogue | June 2023“Young people want to get involved in putting good fire on the ground,” said Ingalsbee. “Thirty years ago, no one asked me that. They all want to be firefighters.”
My Unexpected Journey Into Fire and Leadership
Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network | August 2023Bradley Massey (he/him) is a forestry student at Alabama A&M University, originally from Huntsville, Alabama. He is an USDA/1890 National Scholar, and a co-founder of the FireGeneration Collaborative.
FireGeneration Wants Young People to Help Shape Wildfire Policies
Nexus Media News | June 2023“Our generation needs to be part of a cultural shift toward living with fire.”
Federation of American Scientists | April 2023The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law authorized the Wildland Fire Mitigation and Management Commission to develop and deliver a comprehensive set of new policy recommendations to Congress focused on how to “better prevent, manage, suppress, and recover from wildfires.”
The Next Fire Generation
Ethos Magazine | April 2023“It centers around the idea that present generations have a responsibility to protect the livelihoods of future generations while mitigating disproportionate impacts.”
Leaders Look for Transformation
Indian Country Today | March 2023“They are working to influence international policy and governance projects, community-focused research, and media campaigns around cultural fires, prescribed burning, and community resilience.”
