https://www.wildfirepros.com/frank-on-fire/ Writing and podcast episodes from Frank Carroll. en-us https://franklinocarroll.substack.com/ https://www.wildfirepros.com/frank-on-fire/wildfire-suppression-card/ We grade wildfire suppression teams the way a teacher grades a class — on effectiveness and on transparency. Some of them are not going to like their marks. The Wildfire Suppression Card is a report card on how well the people responsible for putting fires out are actually doing it, and on how honestly they tell the public about it. Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://franklinocarroll.substack.com/ https://www.wildfirepros.com/frank-on-fire/return-the-forests-to-work/ America's public forests were set aside to be cared for and used, in that order. Somewhere in the last fifty years we lost the second half of that sentence, and then we started losing the first half too. A forest that is not managed is not preserved — it is simply left to burn on a schedule nobody chose. Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://franklinocarroll.substack.com/ https://www.wildfirepros.com/frank-on-fire/what-the-fire-actually-cost/ The number in the newspaper is the number of structures lost. It is the easiest number to count and very close to the least important one. The real bill includes fifty years of growth that will not happen, soil that will not hold water the way it did, and a watershed that will send silt downstream every spring for a decade. Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT