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URL:https://www.wildcenter.org/events/science-speaker-series-ignition/
SUMMARY:Science Speaker Series: Ignition- Lighting Fires in a Burning World
  with author M.R. O’Connor
DESCRIPTION:Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World \n\nwith author M.
 R. O’Connor\n\nSaturday\, August 23rd at 3pm. Book signing to follow!\n\
 nGet your copy of Ignition: Lighting Fires in a Burning World from The Wil
 d Supply Co. here!\n\nIgnition is a powerful work of on-the-ground reporti
 ng that explores the science\, history\, and cultural significance of wild
 fires. Journalist M.R. O'Connor investigates how fire has shaped forests f
 or millions of years and how humans once played a key role in managing eco
 systems through 'good fires.' Blending cutting-edge research with frontlin
 e reporting\, she follows firefighters and Indigenous practitioners workin
 g to revive prescribed burning practices. Challenging mainstream conservat
 ion ideals\, this talk offers a hopeful\, provocative vision of how embrac
 ing fire could help us adapt to climate change.\n\nCost: Free for members 
 or with paid admission\nTICKETS\nAbout the Speaker: M. R. O'Connor is a j
 ournalist who writes about the politics and ethics of science\, technology
 \, and conservation. Her work has appeared online in The Atavist\, Slate\,
  Foreign Policy\, The New Yorker\, Nautilus\, UnDark and Harper's. Her f
 irst book\, Resurrection Science: Conservation\, De-Extinction and the Pr
 ecarious Future of Wild Things (St. Martin's Press\, 2015)\, was one of L
 ibrary Journal and Amazon's Best Books of The Year. Her second book\, Way
 finding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World (St. Ma
 rtin's Press\, 2019)\, is an exploration of navigation traditions\, neuros
 cience\, and the diversity of human relationships to space\, time and memo
 ry. Its writing was supported by the Alfred P. Sloan's Program for the Pub
 lic Understanding of Science\, Technology\, &amp\; Economics. She lives in
  Brooklyn\, NY\, with her partner and their two sons.
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