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April 26, 2017: Southwest Fire Season 2016 Overview and 2017 Outlook
Date: Wednesday April 26, 2017 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenter: Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Chuck Maxwell, Predictive Services Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center Please join us for a webinar to review last year’s fires and look ahead toward conditions for this…
April 12, 2017: Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in N. Arizona
Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in northern Arizona Date: April 12, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: David Huffman, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University Historical interruption of frequent surface fire regimes and decades of fire exclusion…
March 1, 2017: Fuels treatments and ecological values in piñon-juniper woodlands: Vegetation, birds, and modeled fire behavior
Date: March 1, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Jonathan Coop and Pat Magee Mastication and hand-thinning treatments are increasingly utilized by land managers as a means of reducing tree cover for fire hazard mitigation and other habitat objectives in piñon-juniper (P-J) woodlands.…
January 18, 2017: Patterns of conifer regeneration following high severity wildfire in ponderosa pine-dominated forests
Date: January 18, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Marin Chambers, Colorado Forest Restoration Institute, CSU The past two decades have witnessed fires of increased severity in southern Rocky Mountain ponderosa pine – dominated forests. Marin will discuss results from an ongoing project that…
November 1, 2016: Is science used to inform fire management and policy decisions?
Date: November 1, 2016 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenter: Molly Hunter, University of Arizona This webinar will include recent science findings and a case study. Dr. Molly Hunter will present results from an assessment of outcomes from research projects funded by the…
November 16, 2016: Forest density preferences of homebuyers in the WUI
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,…
October 5, 2016: Developing & maintaining trust in collaborative forest projects
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…
August 24, 2016: Increasing trends in high severity fire in the southwestern USA from 1984-2013
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,…
August 22, 2016: Meeting the JFSP data availability requirement
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…
May 18, 2016: Finding the Best Available Science on Fire Effects and Fire Regimes in Southwestern and Southern Rocky Mountains Ecosystems
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…
May 18, 2016: Southwest Fire Season: 2015 Overview and 2016 Outlook- May 2016
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…
April 20, 2016: Simple Steps to Wildland Fire Communication
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…
March 17, 2016: Persistence and fire regimes of oak shrubfields suggest increasing dominance with climate change
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…
January 13, 2016: Effectiveness of Wildfire Mitigation Activities in the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI)
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…
February 17, 2016: Ecology of Smoke
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…