Episode 20: Potential operational delineations: new horizons for proactive, risk-informed strategic land and fire management

streaming on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts

Host: Robert Keane (Editor of Fire Ecology and Retired Research Ecologist, USDA Forest Service, USA)

Guests: Matt Thompson (Research Forester, USDA Forest Service, USA) and Kit O’Connor (Research Forester, USDA Forest Service, USA)

In this episode of Fire Ecology Chats, Fire Ecology editor Bob Keane speaks with Matt Thompson and Kit O’Connor of the Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service, to learn about PODs (potential operational delineations) and discuss current and future opportunities for using PODs in cross-boundary and collaborative land and fire management planning.


Special thanks to our guests for their participation, to Bob Keane for hosting this podcast series, and to Madeline Scheintaub for volunteering her time to edit the audio recordings.