News & Media

• The Rise of Megafires(opens in new window), Chico Statements, fall 2018 (Chico State faculty and alumni discuss why wildfires are bigger than ever and how we can respond)
• Sarah Pape's, Op-Ed in the New York Times(opens in new window)
  •   Link to the library article(opens in new window) (no subscription required)
• The Orion - CampFire(opens in new window)
• Tom Fox's Writing Our Way to Gratitude(opens in new window) - Piece about the fire and our work as teachers from the National Writing Project.
• Popular Science, 5 years of California wildfires(opens in new window)
• California Fires and Climate Change(opens in new window), Columbia University Report
• What do Wildfires Have to do with Climate Change?(opens in new window) Earth Institute, Columbia University
• The Terrifying Science Behind California’s Massive Camp Fire(opens in new window), Wired
• “The science behind the fire’s path.”(opens in new window) LATimes
• Matthew Gabriele, Finding Meaning in the Many Apocalypses of California’s Wildfires(opens in new window), Forbes.
• A Paradise Built in Hell: The extraordinary communities that arise in disaster(opens in new window) (2010) Rebecca Solnit
• Paradise Stories(opens in new window) (2007) Dustin Heron
• NSPR’s After Paradise series(opens in new window)
• Butte County Town Attempts to save salmon from wildfire devastation(opens in new window)
• How my brother survived the camp fire(opens in new window) (and so did the buddy bench at Paradise Elementary)
• Butte County Schools Planning Next Steps For Kids Displaced By The Camp Fire(opens in new window), Capital Public Radio
• Placing a Spotlight on Rural Homelessness(opens in new window) (2018) Kornbluh et al
• Camp Fire may create massive housing crisis(opens in new window), Sacramento Bee
• Read Cultural Humility(opens in new window)
• Read Active Listening Strategies (opens in new window)
• Paradise Fire survivors say warnings were too little, too late(opens in new window), NBC News
• Memes make Butte County sheriff internet sensation(opens in new window), ABC News
• Emergency alerts during California’s Camp Fire highlight reliance on fragile communication systems(opens in new window), Global Resilience Institute
• Butte County Office of Education padlet of trauma response resources(opens in new window)
• California’s changing fire country(opens in new window) - As urban development and wildfires meet, residents reckon with new risks By Susie Cagle Oct 10, 2018
• The Smoke’s Gone, But Hearts and Lungs Still May Be in Danger Months After Wildfires(opens in new window), Aaron Glantz and Susie Neilson, December 1, 2018
• California’s Battle Against Climate Change Is Going Up in Smoke - The state’s 2018 wildfire season released emissions equal to a year of power use(opens in new window), Rosa Furneaux, December 10, 2018
• Teaching about catastrophes while the world burns outside(opens in new window), Washington Post

Watching Suggestions

• The communication error we all make, and how it intensifies conflict | Esther Perel(opens in new window)
• 6 Tips for Active Listening #LittleThings(opens in new window)
• This Powerful 9-Minute Film Shows the Plight of Camp Fire Victims(opens in new window)
• The ruins of Paradise: Inside the California fire zone | Dispatch(opens in new window)
• PBS: After wildfire, Calif. authorities struggle to find the missing and the dead(opens in new window) (Prof. Colleen Milligan)
• Connecting the Dots to Climate Change: Feather River ER Nurse Tells Her Story to Senator Bernie Sanders(opens in new window)