Released June 26, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. Catastrophic fires in the Southwest are often a double whammy of fire and floods. The floods that followed the 2011 Las Conchas Fire caused massive erosion, impaired water quality, and …
In the spring of 2019, several partners teamed up with the Burned Area Learning Network to visit coordinate a series of three field trips across the Southwest. Scientists, researchers, and land managers came together to visit burned areas of the Boundary Fire (2017) and Pumpkin Fire (2000) in Arizona, the Las Conchas Fire (2011) in …
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Released June 9, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. There is no single definition of what makes a single fire the “big one.” But there are some common factors: extreme fire behavior, dramatic fire severity, watersheds burned, and communities …
Released May 26, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. Cally and Collin talk with experts on how COVID-19 is changing the way we respond to fires across the Southwest and the US. The virus has umm… infected… every …
Date: June 17, 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Jamie Sanderlin, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station The avifauna within the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona includes species found nowhere else in the United States, in part due to the availability of diverse habitats created by the mixing of Madrean and Cordilleran ecosystems. Neotropical migratory bird species …
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Working Paper 43 by Dan Binkley, Adjunct Faculty, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University Forests and soils interact so strongly that any major change in one of them leads to a reshaping of the other. Fires consume fuels in a few hours that it took vegetation years or decades to produce. Forest soils are both …
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Presenters: Martha Sample and Andi Thode, Northern Arizona UniversityDate: May 5, 2020 12pm AZ/1pm MDT We will be presenting recent work on a Fire-Climate Adaptation ‘menu’ of strategies and approaches that can be used to align fire-specific management goals with climate impacts. The strategies that we have developed fit neatly into an existing climate adaptation framework …
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Fire Moss: Natural colonization and post-fire rehabilitation trials by Henry Grover, Northern Arizona University
Date: April 29, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenters: Michael Lynch and Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Rich Naden, Fire Weather Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center The purpose of this webinar is to review 2019 fires and look ahead toward conditions for 2020. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the largest fires in the …
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Presenter: Katie McGrath, Colorado State University Date: March 4, 2020 12pm MST Despite recognition of the value of prescribed fire in scientific literature and policy, a number of factors impede its widespread implementation in the United States. Social acceptance of prescribed fire is a key factor, making consistent and effective outreach an important part of efforts …