Take action
Specific, actionable, not just aware.
Evidence is only useful if it moves to action. Below are the concrete calls to action from every published odyssey, plus a few ways to engage with the program itself.
Get involved
Follow @ob1odysseys
New odysseys publish as short-form PSAs there first, the fastest way to see new field research as it drops.
Follow on Instagram →Share the data, not just the story
Every odyssey page is built to be linkable and shareable on its own: drop the specific odyssey link, not just the homepage, so people land on the sourced case.
Bring this to a local decision-maker
City councils, county boards, and local agencies respond to specifics. A sourced dataset and a clear ask travel further than general concern.
From: Al Was Right
Read the full case →Back federal wildfire-resilience funding
The U.S. Forest Service and National Interagency Fire Center have repeatedly flagged suppression-cost overruns eating into prevention budgets (prescribed burns, forest thinning, defensible-space programs). Tell your representatives that resilience funding, not just suppression funding, is the leverage point.
Support defensible-space and WUI building codes
Most of the structure loss in this dataset happened in the wildland-urban interface (WUI). Local defensible-space ordinances and fire-hardened building codes are some of the few interventions with direct, measurable effect on outcomes, and they're decided at the city and county level, where individual advocacy matters most.
Reduce the emissions that lengthen fire season
Longer, drier fire seasons are the mechanism connecting broader climate trends to what's on the ground here. Personal and institutional emissions reduction is a slower lever than local fire policy, but it's the one that changes the baseline this data is measuring.
More on the way
The Utah National Monuments and Joshua Tree odysseys will each add their own specific calls to action here once their research and analysis publish.