swfsc, Author at Southwest Fire Science Consortium

Fire moss as a tool for post-wildfire ecosystem restoration

by swfscFactsheet January 25, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

This factsheet is a result of graduate research and has not been peer reviewed beyond graduate committee members. by Chris Ives Increasingly large, frequent, and severe fires across the western United States are creating difficult restoration challenges for land managers. Despite the wide use of current fire restoration techniques, many studies have shown little to …

January 18, 2017: Patterns of conifer regeneration following high severity wildfire in ponderosa pine-dominated forests

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 1, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: January 18, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Marin Chambers, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, CSU The past two decades have witnessed fires of increased severity in southern Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine – dominated forests. Marin will discuss results from an ongoing project that is characterizing post-fire conifer regeneration in severely burned patches, and how regeneration characteristics are governed …

November 1, 2016: Is science used to inform fire management and policy decisions?

by swfscEvents, Webinars December 13, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Date: November 1, 2016 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenter: Molly Hunter, University of Arizona This webinar will include recent science findings and a case study. Dr. Molly Hunter will present results from an assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the Joint Fire Science Program to determine whether or not science has been used to inform …

November 16, 2016: Forest density preferences of homebuyers in the WUI

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 1, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: November 16, 2016 12pm MST Presenter: Evan Hjerpe, Conservation Economics Institute and Yeon-Su Kim, Northern Arizona University In the fire-prone Western U.S., the scale of surrounding forest density can be realized by homebuyers as an amenity for aesthetics and cooling effects, or as a disamenity in terms of wildfire risk. There has been a lack of …

Forest Treatments Impacts to Water Quantity

by swfscScience Synthesis November 1, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Working Paper 37 by Dan Binkley Read The influence of restoration treatments on hydrologic output in fire-adapted forests of the Southwest PDF.

Bark Beetles and Restoration Treatments

by swfscFactsheet October 19, 2016April 3, 2023No Comments

Although bark beetles are a natural part of the ponderosa pine forest ecosystem, it has been the insect most often associated with widespread tree mortality. Therefore, land managers charged with forest restoration use prescribed fire and thinning treatments to promote healthy and resilient stands. Read more!

Economic Benefits of Forest Treatments

by swfscScience Synthesis October 1, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Read the Review of economic benefits from fuel reduction treatments in the fire-prone forests of the Southwestern United States PDF.

October 5, 2016: Developing & maintaining trust in collaborative forest projects

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 21, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Kimberly Coleman, University of Vermont Date: October 5, 2016 This webinar will describe qualitative, case study research that investigated four projects in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to understand how varying organizational structures impacted collaboration. I selected the four case studies to represent the range of organizational structure present through the CFLRP. …

2015 SW Wildfire Season Overview

by swfscSouthwestern Wildfire Season Overview August 14, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Read the 2015 Wildfire Season: An Overview – Southwestern U.S. PDF.

August 24, 2016: Increasing trends in high severity fire in the southwestern USA from 1984-2013

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 13, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Megan Poling, PhD Student, Northern Arizona University In the last three decades nearly 5 million hectares have burned in all vegetation types in the Southwest and the largest fires in documented history have occurred in the past two decades. However, trends in severity, or how fires are burning have not been well documented in forest …