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Protecting Denver’s Water Supply
Presenter: Dr. Kelly Jones, Associate Professor of Ecological Economics with Colorado State University, Human Dimensions of Natural ResourcesDate: June 22, 2022 11am AZ/12pm MDT Collaboratively-funded fuel treatments are becoming more common in the western U.S. to proactively address wildfire impacts.…
Outdoor Recreation & Wildfire
Date: May 10, 2022 11am AZ/12pm MDTPresenter: Adam Benefield, CTC Technology and Energy Federally owned public lands, originally designated to properly manage natural resources, are prone to wildfire in the southern Rocky Mountains, a risk which has increased as a…
Collective Action for Wildfire Risk Reduction
Date: April 19, 2022 11am AZ/12pm MDTPresenter: Dr. Susan Charnley, Pacific Northwest Research Station Over the past decade, government policies and programs to incentivize āall-lands approachesā to reducing wildfire risk have emerged that call for collective action among diverse public,…
Managed Wildfire
Date: March 23, 2022 11am AZ/12pm Mountain DaylightPresenters: Stephen D. Fillmore, PhD Student, University of Idaho, Dr. Sarah McCaffrey To improve understanding of the managed wildfire decision-making process on federal lands (USA), we conducted a mixed methods review of the…
Wildfire, Fish, & Water Resources in the Western US
Presenter: Dr. Patrick Belmont, Utah State UniversityDate: February 15, 2022 12pm Mountain Wildfire has increased 20-fold in the last 30 years in the Western U.S., partly due to climate change and partly due to forest and fire management practices. At…
Postfire Management in Frequent-Fire Conifer Forests
Presenter: Dr. Jens T. Stevens, National Program Lead for the Wildland Fire and Fuels Research, USDA Forest ServiceDate: January 19, 2022 12pm Mountain Standard Time The increasing incidence of large wildfires with extensive stand-replacing effects across the southwestern United States…
Full-Cost Accounting of the 2010 Schultz Fire
Presenter: Dr. Melanie Colavito, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University; Dr. Catrin Edgeley, Northern Arizona University; and Dr. Evan Hjerpe, Conservation Economics InstituteDate: December 7, 2021 12pm Mountain Time The 2010 Schultz Fire was ignited by an abandoned campfire on…
First Nations Wildfire Evacuations: A Guide
Presenter: Dr. Henok W. Asfaw, Postdoc and Project Manager for the First Nations Wildfire Evacuation Partnership Project, University of AlbertaDate: November 18, 2021 12pm Mountain Time In this presentation, we will present results of research carried out as part of…
Repeat Photography and Post-Fire Ecosystem Change in SE Arizona
Date: October 26, 2021 1pm AZ/2pm MDTPresenters: Jim Malusa, University of Arizona, with an introduction by Don Falk, University of Arizona While making a vegetation map of the Chiricahua Mts in 2010, I took georeferenced photos and notes on the…
Tool for Understanding Human-Nature Relationships for Wildland Fire Management
Presenter: Chris Armatas, Research Social Scientist, Forest Service & Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research InstituteDate: September 23, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT Wildland fire is a phenomenon that impacts people and communities from the local to the national scale. These impacts are…
Can landscape fuel treatments enhance both protection and resource management objectives?
Date: September 14, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDTPresenter: Kevin Vogler, Pyrologix LLC, Missoula Montana Land management agencies in the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture can potentially accomplish ecological resource management objectives using unplanned wildfires, but only if such fires do…
Land Use Planning as a Strategy for Fire Adapted Communities
Presenter: Molly Mowery, AICP, Executive Director, Community Wildfire Planning CenterDate: August 26, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT As communities across the U.S. face increasing threats from wildfire, there is also a growing interest in land use planning as a strategy to…
Fire-weather Drivers of Severity and Spread: Example from Grand Canyon
Presenter: Stephanie Mueller, Northern Arizona UniversityDate: July 29, 2021 11am AZ / 12pm MDT Fire is an essential component in restoring and maintaining a healthy forest. However, historic land use and decades of fire suppression has excluded fire from millions…
Transboundary Management & Fire Regimes of Bi-National Sky Islands
Presenter: Miguel Villarreal, Western Geographic Science Center, USGSDate: July 20, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT In this webinar I will share results of a recent study of contemporary fire regimes over a 32-year period (1985-2017) in the Madrean Sky Islands of…
Doing Work on the Land of Our Ancestors: Reserved Treaty Rights Lands Collaborations
Presenters: Greg Russell, Colorado State University; Mike Martinez, Pueblo of Tesuque; Alan Hatch, Santa Ana PuebloDate: May 6, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT This webinar considers the Reserved Treaty Rights Lands (RTRL) program and how it has been used to implement…