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May 18, 2011: Fuels Treatment Practices for Mixed Conifer Forests in the Southwest

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 14, 2011April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Alexander Evans (Forest Guild) The webinar covered the guide’s definition of mixed conifer, past land use and management activities, fire regimes and historic conditions, and impact of altered fire regimes in mixed conifer forests of the southwest. Since Euro-American settlement, many mixed conifer forests have become more homogeneous and can therefore facilitate larger, higher-severity …

April 20, 2011: Southwest Climate Change Initiative

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 1, 2011February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Marcos Robles of the The Nature Conservancy presented information from the Southwest Climate Change Initiative. The Initiative is a collaborative effort started by The Nature Conservancy in 2008 to provide climate science information to natural resource managers in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah so that they can begin responding to climate change. First, Marcos …

March 2011: Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop

by swfscEvents, Workshops March 31, 2011February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Facilitated discussions, presentations, and workshops on restoration and fuels treatments in southwestern vegetation types. Download Agenda/Schedule here Download presentations here: Near Misses… – Alex Viktora Fuels Management… – Robin Wills

Protecting Old Trees from Prescribed Burning

by swfscScience Synthesis February 1, 2011October 21, 2024No Comments

One of the real problems land managers encounter when they work in areas with old-growth trees is the possibility that prescribed burns—a recommended and useful restoration technique, especially when proceeded by mechanical thinning—may kill or seriously injure these biologically and socially important trees. This tricky situation developed in part because decades of fire suppression have …

Estimating Surface Live Fuel Loading

by swfscFactsheet February 1, 2011April 8, 2024No Comments

View fact sheet. Written by Dr. Molly Hunter, February 2011

June 7, 2010: Post-wildfire Seeding: Effectiveness, Trends, Manager Perceptions in Forests across the West

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 1, 2010February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Dr. Pete Fule presented results from the Joint Fire Science Program (JFSP) project synthesizing existing information on post-wildfire seeding (JFSP ID 08-2-1-11). The webinar covered key findings from an evidence-based systematic review conducted to examine the effectiveness and effects of post-fire seeding treatments on soil stabilization and plant community recovery in forested ecosystems in the …