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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 …

October 5, 2016: Developing & maintaining trust in collaborative forest projects

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 21, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Kimberly Coleman, University of Vermont Date: October 5, 2016 This webinar will describe qualitative, case study research that investigated four projects in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to understand how varying organizational structures impacted collaboration. I selected the four case studies to represent the range of organizational structure present through the CFLRP. …

August 24, 2016: Increasing trends in high severity fire in the southwestern USA from 1984-2013

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 13, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Megan Poling, PhD Student, Northern Arizona University In the last three decades nearly 5 million hectares have burned in all vegetation types in the Southwest and the largest fires in documented history have occurred in the past two decades. However, trends in severity, or how fires are burning have not been well documented in forest …

August 22, 2016: Meeting the JFSP data availability requirement

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 13, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Laurie Porth and Dave Rugg, U.S. Forest Service Research & Development, Research Data Archive Meeting the JFSP grant requirement for post-research data accessibility requires some planning. This webinar will review the two paths for satisfying the data requirement, discuss in detail what is needed for publishing research data through the Forest Service Research Data Archive, …

May 18, 2016: Finding the Best Available Science on Fire Effects and Fire Regimes in Southwestern and Southern Rocky Mountains Ecosystems

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 31, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Robin Innes, Ecologist Fire Effects Information System (FEIS, www.feis-crs.org/feis/) staff will introduce new two fire regime products-Fire Regime Reports and Fire Regime Syntheses-and demonstrate FEIS’s new search functions to inform fire management planning and decision-making in the Southwest and Southern Rockies regions. Fire Regime Reports summarize information from thousands of LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings models, which …

May 18, 2016: Southwest Fire Season: 2015 Overview and 2016 Outlook- May 2016

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 31, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Zander Evans, Forest Guild and Brent Wachter, National Weather Service 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 Southwest during 2015. He will share summaries of forest types and burn …

April 20, 2016: Simple Steps to Wildland Fire Communication

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 3, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Cathie Schmidlin, Type 1 PIO, retired USFS Region 3 Media Officer This webinar will cover the basic steps of public information when interacting with communities, general public and media. Click here to register for this webinar now! Cathie has been a public Information officer with a Type 1, Southwest Incident Management Team, off and on …

March 17, 2016: Persistence and fire regimes of oak shrubfields suggest increasing dominance with climate change

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 21, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Chris Guiterman, University of Arizona PhD Candidate A number of recent studies in the Southwest region have documented abrupt transitions of conifer-dominated forests to shrubfields following high-severity fire. Little is known about the long-term ecosystem dynamics of these stands, including their successional trajectories and interactions with fire. I will present dendroecological analyses of five of …

January 13, 2016: Effectiveness of Wildfire Mitigation Activities in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 7, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Date: January 13, 2016Presenter: Zander Evans, Forest Guild Each year wildfires damage homes, businesses, communities, watersheds, and forests on millions of acres across the U.S. However there are effective ways to reduce the impact of wildfire. A new report, Evaluating the Effectiveness of Wildfire Mitigation Activities in the Wildland-Urban Interface, shares lessons learned from communities …

February 17, 2016: Ecology of Smoke

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 7, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Mary Lata, USFS Fire Ecologist The Ecology of Smoke is something that has been considered by very few in the United States, despite extensive and intensive interest and research into frequent fire systems. This presentation will review some of the existing science; present some recent data on smoke and seedling emergence in species native to …