Clare Boerigter
Wilderness Fire Research Fellow
Education
MFA, Creative Writing, Non-fiction, 2021. University dof Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
MA, International Education, 2017. Universidad de Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, Spain
BA, Spanish, 2014. Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA
Background
Clare Boerigter is a science writer specializing in wildland fire. Clare worked as a wildland firefighter for the U.S. Forest Service during the 2012, 2013 and 2015 fire seasons. Since then, she has written about fire, forestry, environmental research and more for the U.S. Forest Service’s Northern Research Station; the University of Minnesota’s Cloquet Forestry Center, St. Anthony Falls Laboratory and College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences; and the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. As the ALWRI Wilderness Fire Research Fellow, Clare will investigate and write about federal wilderness fire management, including the challenges, benefits and barriers to the use of prescribed fire and fire-use fires on wilderness landscapes. When she's not writing, Clare loves to nordic ski, climb, open water swim, and run long distances.
Publications
Boerigter, C.E. (2022). Ojibwe firefighters restore fire to the Cloquet Forestry Center. College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota. https://cfans.umn.edu/news/restoring-fire.
Boerigter, C.E. (2022). People, Fire and Pines: How Fire Use by the Anishinaabeg Shaped the Boundary Waters. Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. z.umn.edu/peoplefirepine.
Boerigter, C.E. (2022). SAFL Faculty and Researchers Develop Tool to Measure Particle Transport of Wildfire Soot. St. Anthony Falls Laboratory, University of Minnesota. https://cse.umn.edu/safl/news/safl-faculty-and-researchers-develop-tool-measure-particle-transport-wildfire-soot.
Boerigter, C.E. (2021). Itasca, Alight. Guernica. www.guernicamag.com/itasca-alight.
Boerigter, C.E. (2021). 60 Years at the Cloquet Forestry Center. Cloquet Forestry Center and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota. z.umn.edu/Boerigter2021.
Boerigter, C.E. (2022). Northern Research Station Scientists Answer Fundamental Questions about Mixedwood Forests. Rooted in Research. Issue 9. Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service. www.fs.usda.gov/research/nrs/products/rooted-research/northern-research-station-scientists-answer-fundamental-questions.
Boerigter, C.E. (2021). On the Search for Success: Revisiting Group Selection in Promoting Northern Hardwood Forest Biodiversity. Rooted in Research. Issue 8. Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service. www.fs.usda.gov/research/nrs/products/rooted-research/search-success-revisiting-group-selection-promoting-northern-hardwood.
Boerigter, C.E. (2021). Seeing Our Future More Clearly: How One Peatland Study is Changing How We Think About Carbon. Rooted in Research. Issue 7. Northern Research Station, U.S. Forest Service. www.fs.usda.gov/research/nrs/products/rooted-research/seeing-our-future-more-clearly-how-one-peatland-study-changing-how-we.
Boerigter, C.E. (2020). The Camp 8 Stand: The Story of the Cloquet Forestry Center’s Old-Growth Red Pines. Cloquet Forestry Center and the College of Food, Agricultural and Natural Resource Sciences, University of Minnesota. z.umn.edu/camp8.