{"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":"The Social Contract of Managing Fire with Stephen Pyne","slug":"the-social-contract-of-managing-fire-with-stephen-pyne","published_at":"2025-07-17T22:05:42+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999/the-social-contract-of-managing-fire-with-stephen-pyne","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/life-with-fire-744999","url":"https://lifewithfire.simplecast.com/episodes/the-social-contract-of-managing-fire-with-stephen-pyne-Jz8hG2_n","audio_url":"https://chrt.fm/track/3G5CD6/cdn.simplecast.com/audio/e64b7a70-510f-4a3b-8b79-94ad9ae877d7/episodes/8bfc800d-1200-4f0c-8036-0420581f2e0d/audio/d8cd3721-9840-4d7d-bc0c-f4e903c85c9e/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=wMFLKTDa","summary":"Welcome to our second episode with THE Stephen Pyne! Stephen is a renowned author and fire historian who, in addition to his academic life, also spent over a decade working on a fire crew on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon early in his career. Given this background, he seemed like quite possibly the perfect person to chat with about the recent Dragon Bravo Fire in Grand Canyon National Park.","meta_description":"Welcome to our second episode with THE Stephen Pyne! Stephen is a renowned author and fire historian who, in addition to his academic life, also spent ove…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2726,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/life-with-fire-744999/episodes/the-social-contract-of-managing-fire-with-stephen-pyne/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/the-social-contract-of-managing-fire-with-stephen-pyne.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}