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Equity in Resilience: Wildfire in the Rogue River Basin

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  • Forced removal of Indigenous communities and subsequent colonial forest management have led to landscape homogenization, fuel abundance, conifer encroachment, and, therefore, a loss of forest and fire resilience in the Western US. This loss of forest and fire resilience leads to a loss of social resilience as forested communities struggle to adapt to an intensifying fire regime. Across scales, the term resilience has served as a policy goal for federal agencies and place-based forest collaboratives over the last decade. While a useful metaphor for environmental change, resilience outcomes may be unevenly distributed across a landscape or a community. When we add an equity lens to the concept of resilience, we see that resilience is situated and experienced differently by different communities based on social, political, or ecological context. Marginalized and historically under-voiced groups often bear the effects of wildland fire disturbance disproportionately and provide unique insight into conceptions of community resilience to wildfire. Relying on a critical examination of resilience, this research uses a qualitative approach to identify attributes of community resilience to wildfire specific to the Rogue River Basin of southwest Oregon. This research also provides a deeper understanding of the role of regional-scale forest collaboratives in impacting both resilience and equity in resilience in this region. Attributes of resilience, as identified in this research, are actions or processes that impact the Rogue Basin social-ecological system. In positioning attributes within equity and resilience frameworks, I found that actions taken to adapt and transform systems toward community resilience to wildfire present opportunities to address social inequities through recognition of diverse knowledge, inclusion in forest governance, and ultimately how resilience was felt across the Rogue Basin. Regional-scale forest collaboratives played a crucial role in shaping both equity and resilience through intentional recruitment of and support for diverse knowledge holders in collaborative membership, consideration of accessibility and capability in forest governance procedures, and thoughtful allocation of collaborative funding and collaboratively designed restoration treatments. This research has implications for communities of place in the Rogue Basin, where community members may gain deeper understanding of diverse paths and experiences of resilience. Moreover, this research broadens the scope of understanding of community resilience to wildfire where organizations working at the intersection of community and forest resilience may gain a deeper understanding of broader efforts to support communities in adapting to, recovering from and preparing for wildfire.
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