Presenter: Molly Mowery, AICP, Executive Director, Community Wildfire Planning CenterDate: August 26, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT As communities across the U.S. face increasing threats from wildfire, there is also a growing interest in land use planning as a strategy to reduce risk and foster more resilient outcomes. Land use planning provides a variety of tools, …
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Presenter: Stephanie Mueller, Northern Arizona UniversityDate: July 29, 2021 11am AZ / 12pm MDT Fire is an essential component in restoring and maintaining a healthy forest. However, historic land use and decades of fire suppression has excluded fire from millions of forested hectares across much of the western United States, including the Grand Canyon National …
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Presenter: Miguel Villarreal, Western Geographic Science Center, USGSDate: July 20, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT In this webinar I will share results of a recent study of contemporary fire regimes over a 32-year period (1985-2017) in the Madrean Sky Islands of the U.S. and MĂ©xico. Our research team evaluated the size, severity and return interval of …
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Presenters: Greg Russell, Colorado State University; Mike Martinez, Pueblo of Tesuque; Alan Hatch, Santa Ana PuebloDate: May 6, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT This webinar considers the Reserved Treaty Rights Lands (RTRL) program and how it has been used to implement collaborative fuel management projects on National Forest lands. RTRL is a funding program administered by …
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Presenters: Mike Stoddard, Ecological Restoration Institute and Matt Tuten, USDA Forest ServiceDate: Thursday April 15, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT This webinar will share research on forest structure and understory vegetation responses to three restoration treatments (thin/burn, burn, and control) over 10 years on a mixed-conifer site in southwestern Colorado. Forest density, canopy cover, and crown …
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Date: March 4, 2021 12pm Mountain/1pm CentralPresenters: Chris Roos, Southern Methodist University; Chris Toya and John Galvan, Jemez Pueblo As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildlandâurban interface (WUI). Although this problem seems distinctly modern, Native American communities have lived in WUI contexts for centuries. When …
Date: Wednesday February 10, 2021 2:30-4pm Mountain Time This webinar brings together a panel of postfire response experts to reflect on their experiences in addressing community needs during recent large fires. The discussion highlighted important differences in fire and postfire response on federal and non-federal lands, and a consideration of existing tools and policies and …
Wildfires in the southwestern US are getting larger, more frequent, and more severe due to changing climatic conditions like rising temperatures and prolonged drought (Singleton et al. 2018, Mueller et al. 2020). Catastrophic wildfire events directly impact communities, ecosystems, and cultural resourcesâand can pose continuing hazards long after the fire is extinguished. Flooding and erosion …
Presenter: Dr. Molly Hunter, USGS SW Climate Adaptation Science Center, Research Manager / Joint Fire Science Program, Science AdvisorDate: January 28, 2021 12pm MST Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also …
Date: December 15, 2020 12pm Mountain Time The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to help guide future planning and research efforts in the severely altered landscapes of the eastern Jemez Mountains. EJLF seeks to address uncertainty by building a network of land managers, scientists, artists, NGOs and interested community members …