Media Coverage
Coverage of research from the Paleoecology and Fire Ecology Lab, expert input from lab members, and public-facing science communication. Outlets include The Washington Post, The New York Times, NPR, National Geographic, and Scientific American, alongside regional and local outlets across the western U.S.
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Tags: [Podcast] audio podcast; [Video] recorded talk or panel. Untagged entries are print or online articles and broadcast radio.
Selected Media
Reverse chronological. Lab members (students, postdocs) indicated where featured.
2025
November 2025: “” Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
October 2025: “” The Big Why, 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
January 2025: “” Explore Big Sky.
2024
August 2024: “” NPR National News.
March 2024: “” Daily 勛圖厙n. Features M.R. Kreider (College alum) and P.E. Higuera.
2023
August 2023: “” The Hill.
March 2023: “” Inside Climate News.
February 2023: “” High Country News, reposting the lab’s piece in The Conversation.
February 2023: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
February 2023: “” The Missoulian.
January 2023: “” High Country News.
2022
March 2022: “” Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
February 2022: [Podcast] “” Life with Fire podcast, hosted by Amanda Monthei.
January 2022: “” NBC News.
2021
December 2021: “” The Washington Post.
December 2021: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
October 2021: “” CNN.
July 2021: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
July 2021: [Podcast] “” A New Angle podcast. Features K.D. Wolf (lab alum) and P.E. Higuera.
July 2021: “” NBC 勛圖厙.
July 2021: “” PBS News Hour, reposting the lab’s piece in The Conversation.
July 2021: “” National Public Radio.
July 2021: “” Scientific American.
June 2021: “” 勛圖厙 Free Press. Features K.D. Wolf (lab alum) and P.E. Higuera.
June 2021: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
June 2021: “” Voice of America.
June 2021: “” CNN.
2020
October 2020: “” Bozeman Daily Chronicle.
October 2020: “” E&E News.
October 2020: “” ClimateWire.
October 2020: “” The New York Times.
September 2020: “” National Geographic.
September 2020: “” Missoulian.
September 2020: “” Seattle Times.
July 2020: “” 勛圖厙 Free Press.
May 2020: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
2019
October 2019: “” Stories from the Field, Engineers & Scientists Acting Locally.
August 2019: “” BBC Future.
July 2019: “” Missoulian.
June 2019: “” Outside Magazine.
March 2019: “” Missoulian. Features K.T. Davis (lab alum) and P.E. Higuera.
January 2019: “” NPR News.
2018
September 2018: “” Wyoming Public Media.
February 2018: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
2017
November 2017: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
November 2017: “The controversies that defined the 2017 fire season, and foreshadow the fires next time.” Missoula Independent.
October 2017: “” The Missoulian.
October 2017: “” Great Falls Tribune.
October 2017: “” 勛圖厙 Public Radio.
October 2017: “” Marketplace, American Public Media.
September 2017: “” High Country News.
September 2017: “” High Country News, republishing the lab’s CityLab piece.
September 2017: “” CityLab.
2016
May 2016: “” Inside Climate News.
Public Talks and Briefings
Invited talks and panels for managers, policy makers, journalists, and the general public. Recordings linked where available.
2025
March 6, 2025: Invited keynote speaker, IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, MT. “”
2024
June 13, 2024: [Video] Invited panel presenter, National Academies of Sciences workshop “” (Higuera appears at 1:25 in the recording).
2022
March 3, 2022: Invited presenter (1 of 3), 勛圖厙 State Legislature’s Environmental Quality Council, session on “”
2021
September 16, 2021: [Video] Invited panelist, Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies’ virtual public event “”
September 1, 2021: [Video] Invited panelist, SciLine media briefing “”, for a national audience of journalists.
March 4, 2021: Invited public presentation, . “Colorado’s record-setting 2020 fire season in the context of the past 6,000 years.”
2020
December 8, 2020: [Video] Invited public presentation, “The past and future ecological effects of wildfire,” part of the , National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, Medicine, Board on Agriculture and Natural Resources.
July 9, 2020: Public lecture “Wildfire and Climate Change in the West,” organized by the Bitterroot Climate Action Group.
May 2020: Presenter and panelist, wildfire workshop for journalists, Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (national cohort).
2019
May 31, 2019: Participant, workshop “Climate Ready Communities: Building Resiliency in Missoula County,” sponsored by the Missoula Chamber of Commerce, Climate Smart Missoula, and the City of Missoula.
May 30, 2019: Invited presentation, 19th Institute for Natural Resources Law Teachers, Missoula, MT. “The inevitability of wildfire in the West: past, present, and future.”
April 5, 2019: Presenter and panelist, wildfire workshop for journalists, Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources (local and regional cohort).
2018
November 7, 2018: Talk, “Science on Tap,” Flathead Lake Brewery. “The inevitability of wildfire in the West: past, present, and future.”
October 14, 2018: Presenter, “Science of National Forest Planning Symposium,” Custer-Gallatin National Forest Plan revision process. “Changing fire regimes and forest resilience: past, present, and future.”
April 20, 2018: Presenter and panelist, “The Future of Wildfire,” Institute for Journalism & Natural Resources.
February 27, 2018: Talk, UM Community Lecture Series. “The inevitability of wildfires: fire history and the future of fire.”
2017
October 2017: Panelist, “Living with Fire” public evening event, sponsored by Treesource.org.
2016
July 2016: Presenter and participant, “Learning from a Legacy of Wilderness Fire in the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex” workshop, Spotted Bear Ranger Station, Northern Rockies Fire Science Network.
Last updated April 2026. For inquiries, contact philip.higuera@umontana.edu.