Welcome to Wildfire Resilient Landscapes
About Wildfire Resilient Landscapes
Our Mission
Wildfire Resilient Landscapes exists to promote resilient coexistence among people, wildlife, and the landscapes we share in an era of climate change and human-altered environments. We work across urban, rural, and transitional landscapes to restore ecological function, support native and climate-adapted systems, and reduce the impacts of wildfire, extreme heat, and environmental degradation.
Our approach recognizes wildfire not as an isolated event, but as part of a broader set of ecological and social challenges shaped by land use, climate pressures, and the intersections between human and natural systems. We center resilience as a long-term process that includes healthy soils, native and adaptive vegetation, functional wildlife habitat, and informed, engaged communities.
Through research, education, planning, and place-based projects, Wildfire Resilient Landscapes seeks to reconnect people to the land, support biodiversity, and foster landscapes that can adapt, recover, and coexist with both natural processes and human presence. Our work prioritizes communities and ecosystems most impacted by environmental change, and emphasizes stewardship, equity, and shared responsibility for the future of our landscapes.
Our Vision
Wildfire Resilient Landscapes envisions a future where people, wildlife, and ecosystems coexist within resilient landscapes that can adapt to wildfire, climate change, and human influence. We envision communities where urban and rural systems are designed with ecological awareness, where native and climate-adapted landscapes support biodiversity, public health, and long-term environmental stability.
Our vision recognizes the
The Anthropocene as a Defining Context for Conservation and Land Stewardship. In this future, land management decisions are informed by science, cultural knowledge, and lived experience, and resilience is measured not only by recovery from disturbance, but by the capacity of landscapes and communities to endure, evolve, and thrive together.
We envision landscapes that function as living systems rather than static spaces. Places where wildfire risk is reduced through thoughtful design and stewardship, where wildlife corridors and habitat are restored, and where people are empowered to understand their role within the ecosystems they inhabit. Through collaboration, education, and innovation, Wildfire Resilient Landscapes seeks to contribute to a more balanced, regenerative relationship between humans and the natural world.