Susan Prichard
Fire ecologist, School of Environmental and Forest Sciences
Wildfires
Pronouns: she/her
Expertise: Wildfire ecology, climate change and fire, wildfire management, fuel treatment effectiveness, dry forest restoration, changing landscapes (legacies of fire exclusion, recent wildfires and climate change).
Susan Prichard is a forest ecologist with a specialty in wildfire ecology. Her main interests are in the effects of fire and other disturbances on forest dynamics, climatic change on forest ecosystems, and fuel treatment options to mitigate wildfire effects. Prichard lives in the Methow Valley near Winthrop, Washington.