{"podcast":{"title":"Life with Fire","slug":"life-with-fire-744999","podcast_index_feed_id":744999,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/wMFLKTDa","website_url":"https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/ff872a5e-c247-4d9d-99c7-e18642da1e7b/3786cd9b-ae22-4df0-ae12-1a051e116736/3000x3000/7dad79de-ff28-4fdb-acb5-4575c0b10a83.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"Amanda Monthei","episode_count":80,"summary":"What are the benefits of prescribed burning? Why have wildfires gotten so severe lately? How can I help protect my home and community? Life With Fire podcast aims to answer these questions (and many others) while deepening our understanding of the critical role fire plays in America’s forests, lands and communities. Hosted by writer and former wildland firefighter Amanda Monthei, Life with Fire features interviews with everyone from scientists to fire management experts to Indigenous practitioners and folks doing the work on the ground. Through these interviews, Amanda hopes to explore our relationship with fire, as well as ways we can better coexist with it in the future.","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999"},"episode":{"title":"Fire in the Southwest Series, Ep.2: The Grassification of the Sonoran Desert with Ecologist Mary Lata","slug":"fire-in-the-southwest-series-ep-2-the-grassification-of-the-sonoran-desert-with-ecologist-mary-lata","published_at":"2024-06-11T15:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999/fire-in-the-southwest-series-ep-2-the-grassification-of-the-sonoran-desert-with-ecologist-mary-lata","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999","url":"https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com/episodes/fire-in-the-southwest-series-ep2-watching-type-conversion-in-real-time-and-the-grassification-of-the-sonoran-desert-with-ecologist-mary-lata-Tx8FAXRo","audio_url":"https://chrt.fm/track/3G5CD6/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e64b7a70-510f-4a3b-8b79-94ad9ae877d7/episodes/16ee04ee-346e-49d4-ad55-980b4c307a51/audio/b8b57e45-2d98-4450-a641-4cc5524ec58b/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=wMFLKTDa","summary":"What is it like to watch vegetation type-conversion in real time? How are invasive grasses changing the ecology of the desert and broader Southwest? What's being done to protect and restore Southwest ponderosa pine forests? This episode with Tonto National Forest fire ecologist Mary Lata dives into the fire regimes of the Southwest, how they're changing by the year, how invasive grasses are influencing those changes, and particularly how she's beginning to see more fire in the Sonoran Desert, where fire was not historically common. We also spoke about her work within the Four Forest Restoration Project, which aims to restore and protect the significant ponderosa pine forests within the Apache-Sitgreaves, Coconino, Kaibab and Tonto national forests.","meta_description":"What is it like to watch vegetation type-conversion in real time? How are invasive grasses changing the ecology of the desert and broader Southwest? What'…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2799,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-with-fire-744999/episodes/fire-in-the-southwest-series-ep-2-the-grassification-of-the-sonoran-desert-with-ecologist-mary-lata/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999/fire-in-the-southwest-series-ep-2-the-grassification-of-the-sonoran-desert-with-ecologist-mary-lata.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}