Polarized Groups Unite to Protect Rivers and Salmon January 3, 2021 In Part 1 of this series, Associate Professor in the Forest Engineering and Management Department of Oregon State University’s College of Forestry, Kevin Bladon, helped illuminate the massive costs wildfires can accrue long after their flames have been put out. There is a dizzying effect to thinking about each and every impact to the hydrology cycle that happens post-fire, and how this all can total to between a ten- and eleven-digit dollar figure of loss. In the second of this two-part series, Bladon informs me of some concrete management actions humans can take to lessen the burden, and I learn that these are not necessarily constrained to the hands of trained scientists or land managers alone.