Ryan poses during prescribed burn operations at the Grove of Old Trees, a privately-owned, old growth redwood stand near Occidental, California, in fall 2023. Photos courtesy of Ryan Klausch (6)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nIf there\u2019s one thing you need to know about Klausch, it\u2019s that he\u2019s willing to travel a long way to work in the outdoors. His r\u00e9sum\u00e9 lists sand dune stewardship in upstate New York to invasive species management in Pennsylvania. He even spent his college days wading through Wisconsin marshes and trapping turtles for genetic research. \u201cI spent a couple summers walking through muck and catching turtles \u2014 which isn\u2019t something most people can say.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klausch was raised with an outdoors-first mentality. His family spent every free moment doing something outside \u2014 hiking, backpacking, canoeing, biking. If it was under the sun or stars, the Klausches were sure to be there. Even their family vacations were spent out west at some grandiose National Park. Naturally, when Klausch came to UW\u2013Madison, he majored in wildlife ecology and environmental studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Nowadays, Klausch spends his free time backpacking in the California wilderness \u2014 often doing four-to-five day stretches at a time. He\u2019s even gearing up for a 12-day trip in August. \u201cI’m really excited for that,\u201d he pauses, \u201cbut I’m also not excited to carry all that food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n
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His love for the outdoors complements his current position at California State Parks where he manages their Wildfire and Forest Resilience Program. Klausch is also a California State-Certified Prescribed-Fire Burn Boss and leads his local prescribed burn association in Sonoma County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So, how did Klausch go from wetlands to wildfires? We\u2019re here to tell the tale.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Prometheus Goes 4-Wheeling<\/h2>\n\n\n\n After graduating from UW\u2013Madison in 2014, Klausch joined the Student Conservation Association, a nonprofit organization that sends entry-level conservation workers to different agencies across the country. One of these jobs brought him to the natural resources department within the Naval Air Station in Pensacola, Florida. There, he met prescribed burns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Klausch describes his first experience as surreal. \u201cThey\u2019d attach a torch to the back of an ATV, and when you press the throttle, it would shoot fire out of the back. So, you\u2019d slowly drive with fire shooting out the back of your vehicle,\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
From then on, Klausch found a familiarity within fire. \u201cIt\u2019s a very human thing. Everyone\u2019s stared at a campfire for no good reason, and I feel like that\u2019s a very connecting feeling for a lot of people. That very same feeling happens on prescribed fires where it just kind of feels right and normal and human to be doing it, but there’s not a good way to explain it,\u201d Klausch says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nRyan discusses burn objectives at an operational briefing prior to a prescribed burn at Salt Point State Park near Timber Cove, California, in fall 2025.\u00a0<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nWhere There\u2019s Smoke \u2026<\/h2>\n\n\n\n After a couple years of bouncing around different jobs across the country, Klausch found his way to California working for the Bureau of Land Management. \u201cThat position got my foot in the door and into the next level of career with full-time, permanent job benefits. Although it was fun hopping from state to state all around the country, I was ready to stay in one place for a little bit longer.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His next career move was to the Mojave Desert where he managed a million acres of grazing allotments for sheep and cattle in the desert. Part of his work also included being a resource advisor on wildfires and prescribed burns \u2014 working with firefighter personnel to prevent damage to natural and cultural resources. If there was damage, Klausch was the one to make it right. Prescribed burns would often unknowingly dig up underground tribal sites when creating a fire containment line. Klausch would work with local tribes to look at the damage and see what they could do to repair it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cCalifornia is a very culturally rich place with a lot of different tribes. There\u2019s so many small spots, you wouldn’t even know it until something gets kicked up. And even though it’s potentially damaging, it can also be helpful and create a fuller picture for both archeologists and the tribes,\u201d Klausch says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Crewmembers patrol a prescribed burn unit during operations at Sonoma Coast State Park near Jenner, CA in Winter 2025.<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
Ryan (left) poses with fellow crewmember, Michael Garrett, during wildfire operations on the Walbridge Fire near Cazadero, CA in Fall 2020.<\/figcaption>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nBurning Bright<\/h2>\n\n\n\n While working on a prescribed burn, fire not only lit the landscape but Klausch\u2019s heart when he met his current partner of eight years. This led him to move up to Sonoma County, just north of San Francisco, where he worked as a forester for the Conservation Fund.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
While there, he worked on coordinating wildland fuel projects for wildfire prevention and risk reduction strategies, which then led him to becoming tied into the local prescribed burn association in Sonoma County. He\u2019s been burning with that group for the past six years. \u201cThe association has a lot of community members who have experienced wildfire and wanted to do something about it,\u201d Klausch says. \u201cAnd they saw prescribed fire as the best tool to do with that in California.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The association united people from all different walks of life, and Klausch\u2019s connections led him to his current job with the California State Parks, where he manages the Wildfire and Forest Resilience Program. There, he does everything from prescribed burns to forestry work and everything in between. During this time, he also became a State-Certified Prescribed-Fire Burn Boss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat was a big change for me \u2014 being recognized at that level of position and having that level of responsibility. But you can see that I got here from a lot of different jobs and experiences. They were all building on each other to get to where I am now.\u201d Klausch says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His team performs prescribed burns in California during the winter \u2014 outside of wildfire season. \u201cOf course, anytime of year in California can be wildfire season because the different parts of the state have different climatic influences,\u201d Klausch says. They burn to prevent wildfires, but also to remove invasive species \u2014 often doing one large burn that takes over a couple hundred acres and then a lot of small burns that target specific areas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burns often only take a couple days to complete depending on how dry it is. In a redwood forest, however, burns can last up to three weeks. The wood smolders and holds onto fire that can reignite and cause prescribed fires to escape containment and get out of control. Klausch and his team prevent this as much as possible with patrols, keeping a close eye on potential hotspots, and monitoring the weather and wind patterns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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\nCalifornia State Parks crewmembers conduct firing operations on a prescribed burn at Manchester State Park near Point Area, CA in Fall 2023.<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\nFuel for the Fire<\/h2>\n\n\n\n Thinking back to his time in college, Klausch never could have imagined where he\u2019d end up. But that\u2019s the point of majoring in environmental studies. His education with the Nelson Institute is what set him up for success in the career that he has now. \u201cEnvironmental studies helped me understand more of the humanistic side of wildlife ecology,\u201d Klausch says, \u201cbecause I\u2019m managing natural resources both for<\/em> people and around<\/em> people. So, it helps to have that social perspective.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nAnd just like his prescribed burn association, the environmental studies major pulls in students from various backgrounds \u2014 something that Klausch appreciated about his student experience. \u201cI remember I went to an event for the first class of environmental studies majors, and it was really cool to see all the different majors that other students were linked to,\u201d Klausch says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He advises current students to take opportunities and go wherever the wind takes them, because you never know where you\u2019ll end up. You could catch angry turtles in the marshes of Wisconsin or ride fire-breathing ATVs in Florida or help conserve buried tribal sites in California like Klausch has done. \u201cYeah \u2026\u201d he admits, \u201cit\u2019s been kind of a wild ride.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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