Clare E. Boerigter

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  • Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, United States Forest Service

I'm the Wilderness Fire Research Fellow at the Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, part of the USDA Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. My work focuses on fire management in federal wilderness areas, including the challenges, benefits, and barriers to the use of human-ignited fire in wilderness. My research on this topic has been published in BioScience and Fire Ecology.

Previously, my science writing has appeared in publications for the Rocky Mountain Research Station and Northern Research Station (Forest Service R&D) and the University of Minnesota, and in literary magazines such as Guernica. I am currently at work on a memoir - Wild Light: Notes from the Safest, Most Dangerous Places - about my three seasons as a wildland firefighter, forthcoming from Beacon Press.

Experience

  • 2023–present
    Wilderness Fire Research Fellow, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, U.S. Forest Service

Education

  • 2021 
    University of Minnesota, MFA / Nonfiction

Publications

  • 2025
    Guardians and gardeners: Managing wilderness for the twenty-first century, BioScience
  • 2024
    Untrammeling the wilderness: Restoring natural conditions through the return of human-ignited fire, Fire Ecology

Professional Memberships

  • Member of the Association for Fire Ecology

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