Fire Aviation welcomes Ryan Maye Handy

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Over the next few days our site visitors will have the pleasure of reading some articles written by a professional writer whose day job is a newspaper reporter. Ryan Maye Handy will be helping us out at times, contributing content on an as-needed basis. We would like to welcome Ryan to the website!

We had been aware of her coverage of wildland fires for a couple of years but met her for the first time at the Large Wildland Fires Conference in Missoula in May where she put on a very well received presentation on The Timeline of Media Manipulation during and after a Large Scale Wildfire.

Ryan currently works for the Fort Collins Coloradoan as the newspaper’s environment and public lands reporter. She was formerly the wildfire reporter for The Gazette, in Colorado Springs, where she covered the Waldo Canyon and Black Forest fires, the two most destructive wildfires in Colorado history.

Recently she has written an article on the second anniversary of the Waldo Canyon fire, as well as traveled to Montana to cover the Large Wildland Fires Conference.

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