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Restoration Treatments: Reducing Fuels and Increasing Understory Diversity
Presenters: Mike Stoddard, Ecological Restoration Institute and Matt Tuten, USDA Forest ServiceDate: Thursday April 15, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT This webinar will share research on forest structure and understory vegetation responses to three restoration treatments (thin/burn, burn, and control) over…
Indigenous Fire Management & the WUI
Date: March 4, 2021 12pm Mountain/1pm CentralPresenters: Chris Roos, Southern Methodist University; Chris Toya and John Galvan, Jemez Pueblo As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildlandâurban interface (WUI). Although this…
The Fire x Post-Fire Double Double Emergency
Date: Wednesday February 10, 2021 2:30-4pm Mountain Time This webinar brings together a panel of postfire response experts to reflect on their experiences in addressing community needs during recent large fires. The discussion highlighted important differences in fire and postfire…
Prescribed Fires & Fire Regimes
Presenter: Dr. Molly Hunter, USGS SW Climate Adaptation Science Center, Research Manager / Joint Fire Science Program, Science AdvisorDate: January 28, 2021 12pm MST Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat,…
East Jemez Landscape Futures
Date: December 15, 2020 12pm Mountain Time The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to help guide future planning and research efforts in the severely altered landscapes of the eastern Jemez Mountains. EJLF seeks to address…
Risk Management Prioritization
Presenter: Dr Melanie Colavito, Ecological Restoration InstituteDate: December 8, 2020 12pm Mountain Time The Ecological Restoration Institute recently completed a project analyzing the use and adoption of wildfire risk assessment and fuels treatment prioritization methods and productsâbroadly referred to here…
Potential Operational Delineations (PODs)
Presenters: Jamie Long, Kit O’Connor, USDA Forest Service and Mike Caggiano, Colorado Forest Restoration InstituteDate: November 19, 2020 12pm Mountain Time This will be the first in our new series to feature “Science in Management Spotlight,” the goal of which…
Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American landscapes
Presenters: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University; Sean Parks, USDA Forest Service; Camille Stevens-Rumann, Colorado State UniversityDate: November 18, 2020 11am Mountain Time Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised…
Policy Change & Wildland Fire Management
Date: October 22, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDTPresenter: Jesse Young, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Northern Arizona University In 2009, new guidance for wildland fire management in the United States expanded the range of strategic options for managers working to reduce the threat of…
Resilience in National Forest Planning
Presenter: Jesse Abrams, University of Georgia Date: September 9, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national…
Collaborative Planning for Fire-Adapted Communities
Presenter: Dr. Fermin Alcasena Date: August 26, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Despite the growing number of extreme fires occurring in wildland-urban interface areas of the western US, the development of wildfire risk reduction programs aimed at creating fire-adapted communities has…
COVID-19 and Wildfire Lessons Learned
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 from 12-1:30pm MDT/11am-12:30pm AZ Presenters: Listed below As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the…
Evaluating Change in Bird Communities from Wildfire in the Arizona Sky Islands
Date:Â June 17, 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter:Â Jamie Sanderlin, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station The avifauna within the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona includes species found nowhere else in the United States, in part due to the availability of…
May 5, 2020: Adaptation strategies for climate and fire in the Southwest
Presenters: Martha Sample and Andi Thode, Northern Arizona UniversityDate:Â May 5, 2020 12pm AZ/1pm MDT We will be presenting recent work on a Fire-Climate Adaptation âmenuâ of strategies and approaches that can be used to align fire-specific management goals with climate…
Southwest Fire Season 2019 Overview and 2020 Outlook
Date: April 29, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenters: Michael Lynch and Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Rich Naden, Fire Weather Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center The purpose of this webinar is to review 2019 fires and look ahead toward conditions…