Tuesday 1 December 2020, 9:00 am to 12:45 pm PST; Virtual format (Zoom)
Key Purpose
Identify fire science and management needs and discuss tools and approaches to natural resource assessments and adaptation strategies for fire dynamics in future climates in Southwest (DOI Regions 8 & 10 [CA, NV, AZ]) bioregions.
Take-Aways
- Provide awareness of tools needed for decision-making in an uncertain future
- Generate a list of new science actions to meet fire needs for practitioners/planners in future, non-analog landscapes and communities
- Suggest how we might address and accomplish these identified needs going forward
- Exchange Information
- Make connections
This four-hour, virtual Summit was an abbreviated, rescheduled version of ‘Building Bridges and Solutions: Partners in Facing Fire-Science Challenges’ that was cancelled in April due to COVID-19. We assembled scientists and fire practitioners/leaders in an interagency effort to identify fire science and management needs and to discuss decision-making tools and approaches that address resource assessments and adaptation strategies for fire dynamics in future climates in the Southwest (Department of Interior [DOI] Regions 8 and 10 [CA, NV, AZ]). This overriding goal threaded together the Summit’s talks, Q&A, and break-out sessions. Speakers from various agencies, institutes, and academia focused on fire management and planning in future non-analog landscapes and climate-fire-ecosystem impact relationships in western forest (e.g., mixed-conifer, subalpine), desert (hot and cold, grassland, pinyon-juniper, sage-steppe), and Mediterranean/chaparral bioregions. Syntheses from talks, Mentimeter®-conducted discussions, and break-out groups on management and actionable-science needs will be summarized in a white paper and posted on the Southwest, Great Basin, and California Fire Science Exchange websites. Let’s work together to address fire science and management in an uncertain future!
Thank you for a great workshop! To read a written summary of the workshop, click here.
Agenda
Please visit the agenda link here to see speakers, talk tiles, polling opportunities, Q&A periods, breakouts, and report-outs. Brainstorming by break-out teams was enabled by Mural®.
Below you can view a recording of the nearly 3 hour virtual workshop. For video navigation ability please click on “Show More” in the video description at this link.
Speakers
We had an exciting line-up of speakers (view speaker bios here) who addressed fire management and planning in future non-analog landscapes, and climate-fire-ecosystem impact relationships, in western forest (e.g., mixed-conifer, subalpine), desert (hot and cold, grassland, pinyon-juniper, sage-steppe), and Mediterranean/chaparral bioregions of the Southwest.
Planning Committee: Matt Brooks, Mike Chotkowski, Corey Gucker, Joe Holomuzki (Chair), Eugénie MontBlanc, Stacey Sargent Frederick, Barb Satink Wolfson
