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January 15, 2014: Black Lake Prescribed Burn: Lessons Learned in Building Capacity for Prescribed Fire

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 21, 2014April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Eytan Krasilovsky will share challenges and lessons learned surrounding the Forest Guild’s recent Black Lake Training Exchange. Forest Guild and the New Mexico State Land Office, with support from the Nature Conservancy’s Fire Learning Network, convened a grant funded training exchange to burn 900 acres of state trust lands in a wildland-urban interface in northern …

December 12, 2013: Cooperative Burning and Training Exchanges

by swfscEvents, Webinars December 13, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Jeremy Bailey, a career firefighter and prescribed fire burn boss, will discuss the Fire Learning Network’s Training Exchange program and how it is being used to train numerous local workforces to advance burning across all lands. In the past seven years, these training exchanges have been deployed on federal, state and private lands, bringing together …

Silviculture, fire and baby trees: A sabbatical year of travel and research

by swfscUncategorized December 5, 2013April 5, 2024No Comments

Kristen Waring

December 2013 at Northern Arizona University

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November 25, 2013: The Role of Fire in Shortgrass Rangelands

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 26, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: David Augustine, USDA-ARS Landscape Ecologist In this webinar, we will discuss research on the role and use of prescribed fire in the western Great Plains, focusing on studies conducted in the shortgrass steppe of Colorado over the past decade. We will discuss the fuel loads and weather conditions under which prescribed burning has been …

Fire regime attributes of wildland fires in Yosemite National Park

by swfscUncategorized November 18, 2013April 5, 2024No Comments

Jan van Wagtendonk

November 2013 at Northern Arizona University

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November 12, 2013: Fire Legacy’s role in current and future fire management in the Southwestern U.S.

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 13, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Tessa Nicolet, USFS Region 3 Fire Ecologist The southwestern United States encompasses many ecosystems with intimate and inseparable relationships with fire. It is well accepted that fire plays an integral role in the ecology and maintenance of many forest and grassland types in the southwest. Fire on these landscapes not only shapes how those …

September 25, 2013: How will climate change and treatments affect future forests? Testing alternatives with the Climate-FVS model

by swfscEvents, Webinars October 10, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Pete Fulè, Professor, Northern Arizona University Under current conditions, large, severe wildfires are a fact of life in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. What will burned systems look like over the coming decades under warming climate? Do management treatments make a lasting difference or will climate override their effects? We applied the relatively new feature …

Fuel Treatment Longevity

by swfscScience Synthesis October 1, 2013October 21, 2024No Comments

There are several ways to evaluate fuel treatment effectiveness: observations, case studies, mathematical models, and empirical studies. Within these four categories, there are several methods that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of fuel treatments both immediately after treatment and over time. This paper summarizes the goals, effects, and advantages of various treatment actions; …

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SW Mixed Conifer Forests: Evaluating Reference Conditions to Guide Fuel Treatments

by swfscScience Synthesis October 1, 2013October 21, 2024No Comments

This working paper covers three topics to guide treatments in mixed-conifer forests of the Southwest: 1) describes the current knowledge of mixed-conifer historical reference conditions for fire regimes, stand structure, and species composition in the Southwest (Arizona, New Mexico and adjacent areas); 2) provides field diagnostics to assess reference conditions; and 3) offers land managers …

August 21, 2013: Effects of fuel treatments on wildfire severity

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 4, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenters: Charlotte Reemts, an Ecologist for the Nature Conservancy and Helen Poulos, Wesleyan University Charlotte and Helen teamed up to present this webinar that connected science and management of fire in the Davis Mountains of west Texas. Three wildfires burned through the pinyon-juniper-oak forests of the Davis Mountains in 2011 and 2012. Fuel treatments (prescribed fire, …