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A Forest Service Story About Narrative, Resilience, and Memory Disclaimer:This case study is based on volunteer work I did with a U.S. Forest Service region during the Chief’s Operation Care & Recovery effort. I developed this material independently and shared it with that region to support their resilience efforts. All interpretations, conclusions, and lessons here…
Field Note Context: Fire and Aviation Management, United States Forest Service A former Navy camera operator joined USFS Fire and Aviation Management as a media specialist. His footage was sharp. His audio was clean. His compositions were strong. And yet, product after product was quietly rejected by the Washington Office. The problem was not his…
Staging areas are where you execute, not where you invent trust. When partners first meet in the parking lot of a disaster, they bring trucks, supplies, clipboards and logos. What they usually do not bring is a shared playbook. The pattern is simple: What happened at a small church in Bay St Louis during Hurricane…
Federation is my default. Integration is my exception. The clearest example of that exception is the wildland fire community in the United States, particularly through the National Wildfire Coordinating Group. NWCG brings together the Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management, National Park Service and other partners. Outside of wildfire, these agencies are quite federated. Their…
Most organizations talk about roles as if they were job titles. You are a project manager. You are an analyst. You are a specialist. On paper, that sounds clear. In reality, those titles describe a person far more than they describe a protocol. Wildland fire does it differently. Inside the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG)…
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