swfsc, Author at Southwest Fire Science Consortium

November 1, 2017: Interagency coordination to meet multiple objectives: An effective approach to wildfire

by swfscEvents, Webinars October 11, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: November 1, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenters: Shaula Hedwall, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Wesley Hall, Coconino National Forest While the number of acres burned annually by uncharacteristic wildfire continues to grow, it is becoming exceedingly important for agencies to identify opportunities to use wildfire to meet multiple land management and resource objectives. When conditions …

Horseshoe 2 Fire: 6 years Post-Fire

by swfscField Trips, Story Maps October 3, 2017October 16, 2023No Comments

We hosted a two-day field trip to visit various locations within the perimeter of the 2011 Horseshoe 2 Fire (including Chiricahua National Monument and Coronado National Forest). Topics discussed include: wildlife impacts, rangeland impacts, watershed and hydrology effects, and historic fire regime and re-burn issues. Read the Horseshoe 2 Factsheet here. Click the StoryMap below …

October 3, 2017: Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System: MoD-FIS in the Great Basin & Southwestern U.S.

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 24, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Webinar presenters: Charley Martin, LANDFIRE Fuels Team Lead, and Tobin Smail, Fire & Fuels GIS specialist, both Technical Support Services Contractors to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Date: October 3, 2017 11:30am AZ/12:30pm MDT This webinar is co-hosted by LANDFIRE and members of the Joint Fire Science Program: Great Basin Fire Science, Southwest …

2017 TWS Conference Symposium- Wildfire and spotted owls: It’s a burning issue (co-host)

by swfscConference, Events August 28, 2017November 14, 2024Comments are Disabled

Symposium September 25th: “Wildfire and spotted owls: It’s a burning issue” Study results suggest that wildfires in the western U.S. have increased in size and severity over the past several decades. This increase has raised concern over the effects of fire, particularly high-severity fire, on threatened and endangered species, including the spotted owl (Strix occidentalis). These …

Bosque del Apache NWR-Fire and Wildlife Management

by swfscField Trips, Story Maps August 28, 2017October 16, 2023No Comments

The 57,000 acre Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is a unique landscape with uplands and water features, including a stretch of the Rio Grande River. It provides an important wintering ground for cranes and geese. Refuge staff depend upon and utilize various tools to manage the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge for the …

August 31, 2017: The East Jemez Landscape Futures Project

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 8, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: August 31, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Collin Haffey, USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative process that aims to develop a holistic and forward-looking approach to managing areas of the eastern Jemez Mountains severely altered by drought, high severity fire, and post-fire flooding. To engage a diversity …

December 2, 2016: Altar Valley

by swfscField Trips July 17, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Altar Valley Field Trip In November and December 2016, we co-hosted a conference in Tucson, Arizona with the Association for Fire Ecology (Beyond hazardous fuels: Managing fire for social, economic, and ecological benefits). During the conference, we arranged three separate field trips. The link below provides information from each stop on the Altar Valley Field …

June 14, 2017: Recovery & adaptation after wildfire across the United States, 2009-2011

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

Date: June 14, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Miranda H. Mockrin, USFS Northern Research Station Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. In eight case study sites across the United States we examined how destructive wildfire affected altered progress towards becoming fire-adapted, focusing on the …

2016 SW Wildfire Season Overview

by swfscSouthwestern Wildfire Season Overview May 22, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

2016 Wildfire Season: An Overview – Southwestern U.S PDF by Alexander Evans.

May 17, 2017: Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: Linking operational fire response to landscape planning objectives

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 3, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: Linking operational fire response to landscape planning objectives Date: May 17, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Christopher O’Connor, US Forest Service RMRS Human Dimension Program, Wildfire Risk Management Team Part of the solution to dealing with the increasing complexity of wildfire management is to reduce uncertainties inherent within active fire …