swfsc, Author at Southwest Fire Science Consortium

April 26, 2017: Southwest Fire Season 2016 Overview and 2017 Outlook

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

Date: Wednesday April 26, 2017 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenter: Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Chuck Maxwell, Predictive Services Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center Please join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this year. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the 12 largest fires in the …

April 12, 2017: Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in N. Arizona

by swfscEvents, Webinars March 17, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in northern Arizona Date: April 12, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: David Huffman, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University Historical interruption of frequent surface fire regimes and decades of fire exclusion have resulted in degraded ecological conditions in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the American …

What is a forest fuel treatment?

by swfscFactsheet February 19, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Forest fuel treatments are used by managers for ecological restoration and reducing fire hazard. Due to past management decisions and long-term fire exclusion, forests are more dense and are susceptible to severe wildfires. Fuel treatments aim to reduce the intensity and size of wildfires, increase species diversity, and restore forests to their historical condition. Read …

March 30-April 1, 2017: New Mexico WUI Summit- Albuquerque, NM

by swfscEvents, Workshops February 13, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: March 30-April 1, 2017 Location: Sheraton Airport Hotel The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Summit is a statewide traveling conference that is organized by representatives from state and federal agencies and local non-profits. The WUI Summit focuses on topics that teach local leaders, emergency responders, businesses, and citizens the science behind forest fires and what each player’s …

March 29-30, 2017: Arizona WUI & Firewise Summit- Flagstaff, AZ

by swfscEvents, Workshops February 12, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: March 29-30, 2017 Location: Doubletree by Hilton Flagstaff This 2-day summit will equip the homeowner as well as fire departments and wildland firefighters with information and actions they can take to reduce loss and increase safety in their community. Topics include fire ecology, hazard fuel reduction grants, insurance issues, risk assessments, Fire Adapted Communities, Ready, Set, …

March 1, 2017: Fuels treatments and ecological values in piñon-juniper woodlands: Vegetation, birds, and modeled fire behavior

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

Date: March 1, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Jonathan Coop and Pat Magee Mastication and hand-thinning treatments are increasingly utilized by land managers as a means of reducing tree cover for fire hazard mitigation and other habitat objectives in piñon-juniper (P-J) woodlands. However, the effects of these treatments on ecological processes including fire, and on a wide …

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 …