swfsc, Author at Southwest Fire Science Consortium

May 15, 2013: The Structure of Fire Size Distributions: A Broad View of Interacting Gradients in Wilderness Management, Spatial Climate, and Topography in Three Western Regions

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 21, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Sandra Haire, Haire Laboratory for Landscape Ecology Determining the effects of land management on fire regime characteristics is complicated by the interaction of several factors that vary in space and time. First, fire size and frequency are linked to climate conditions, including drought, as well as wind and temperature that define weather conditions during …

April 25, 2013: Impacts of fire hazard assessment and fuel reduction priorities on mega-fire outcomes: A hypothetical test using the Wallow Fire in Arizona

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 6, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Amy Waltz, Program Director of Science Delivery, Ecological Restoration Institute Uncharacteristically large and severe wildfires, or mega-fires, are occurring with increasing frequency over the last decades in the western United States. The 2011 Wallow Fire, a 538,049-acre (217,740-hectare) fire in the conifer forests of eastern Arizona, provided the opportunity to compare the effectiveness of …

April 2013: White/Donaldson Fires

by swfscEvents, Field Trips May 5, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

A one day field trip to both the White and Donaldson Fires near Ruidoso, New Mexico that reviewed how both fires burned in the same year (2011) with very different effects. We visited unburned and burned areas that received mastication and other fuels treatments, discussed treatments and how they may have affected fire behavior, fire …

Do wildfires burn east of the Mississippi River?

by swfscUncategorized April 26, 2013April 5, 2024No Comments

Will Flatley

April 2013 at Northern Arizona University

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March 27, 2013: The Fire Season Outlook for 2013 and How It’s Built

by swfscEvents, Webinars March 28, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Chuck Maxwell, Fire Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center, Predictive Services Chuck Maxwell will discuss how Predictive Services develops seasonal fire potential predictions and what the outlook is this year for the Southwest. Join this webinar to get an inside view of the data and methods that go into fire season predictions, and equally important where …

February 19, 2013: Implementing the Mexican spotted owl revised recovery plan: Conducting fire management in owl habitat

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 19, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenters: Bill Block (USFS RMRS) and Shaula Hedwall (USFWS) The Mexican Spotted Owl Recovery Plan, First Revision, was released on December 17, 2012. The Recovery Team used the best available science to delineate actions we think are required to recover and protect the owl. This Recovery Plan presents realistic and attainable goals for recovering the …

Keeping fire out of the desert: Buffelgrass control efforts in southern Arizona

by swfscUncategorized February 1, 2013April 5, 2024No Comments

Molly Hunter

January 2013 at Northern Arizona University

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Past Meets the Present: Using Old Burns in Fire Management

by swfscVideos January 30, 2013April 5, 2024No Comments

Over the past two decades the size of wildfires has dramatically increased across the Southwest. These large burned areas have become so common that newer wildfires are burning into and around them. Fire managers increasingly use these previous burns as treatments that either stop or slow fire spread. The interaction of past and current wildfires has important management and ecological consequences.

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January 16, 2013: Temperature as a driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 17, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Park Williams, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Williams will discuss his recent work to derive a forest drought-stress index (FDSI) for the southwestern United States using a comprehensive tree-ring data set representing AD 1000–2007. This FDSI is linked to measures of forest productivity, mortality, bark-beetle outbreak and wildfire. If climate models are accurate, the …

December 9, 2012: Synthesis of Knowledge of Extreme Fire Behavior for Fire Managers

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 3, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Paul Werth Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection column. This webinar will summarize the recent JFSP publication that connects the …