Adaptive Management
Overview and Verification of LANDFIRE Fuels: 2022 Cooks Peak Fire
In a Nutshell: Learn more about how to use LANDFIRE. We’ll use the 2022 Cook’s Fire as a case study. Description: A practitioner-oriented overview of LANDFIRE with a focus on fuels and how they react to modeling techniques. The subject area of discussion will be the 2022 Cooks Peak fire located in northern New Mexico. This webinar will …
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Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Fire: One Year Later
The Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Fire was a devastating event for New Mexico. Many communities were affected, and while this fire was unique, it will not be for long. Climate change and the effects of a century of fire exclusion mean that fires like this one are increasingly likely. We must understand what happened in …
2022 SW Wildfire Season Overview
This report is the tenth in a series of annual Southwest wildfire season overviews available from the Southwest Fire Science Consortium and the Ecological Restoration Institute. The goal of this overview is to provide a concise summary of the fire season and to facilitate comparisons with past fires and fire seasons. It follows the format …
Prescribed Burns as a Tool to Mitigate Future Wildfire Smoke Exposure
In a nutshell: Can prescribed fire reduce future smoke impacts? Research on how targeted prescribed burn treatments in heavily forested Western states may have an outsized impact on improving air quality for the entire western U.S. by reducing the likelihood of future wildfire smoke. Description: Catastrophic wildfires in the western United States pose significant risks …
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Grassification and Fast-Evolving Fire Connectivity and Risk in the Sonoran Desert
IN A NUTSHELL: In the second webinar in a series on invasive grass-driven changes in dry desert systems, presenters will discuss their findings on the fire dynamics of the 2020 Bighorn Fire in the Sonoran Desert near Tucson, AZ to better understand the changing nature of fire in desert systems which are increasingly experiencing conversion …
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Managed Fire Fact Sheet
Download a PDF of the fact sheet here and read the entire science synthesis report here.
Monitoring and Removal of Invasive Grasses for Restoration of Dry Desert Systems
IN A NUTSHELLA panel of researchers and managers discusses the impact of non-native invasive grasses on dry desert systems and various methods to remove, monitor, or slow their spread. The fire regime of dry desert systems, such as the Sonoran, historically consisted of infrequent, low intensity, size-limited fires. Native grasses and other vegetation, which grow …
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Blooming from the Ashes
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