The unprecedented “reckless burning” charge came in a conservative county with a long history of tension between landowners and federal authorities, including the 2016 takeover of a nearby wildlife refuge by armed protesters.
On June 5, 2020, a lightning strike hit dry vegetation in the Catalina Mountains, creating what would become one of the largest fires in our city s history.
In 2022, Reed, Trefny and two other students Bradley Massey, a junior at Alabama A&M University, and Alyssa Worsham, who recently completed her master’s at Western Colorado University formed the FireGeneration Collaborative (FireGen, for short), a group that advocates for centering Indigenous knowledge and bringing more young people into the wildfire space.
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