Fire-Adapted Communities Terminology
Fire-Adapted Communities Terminology Document with definitions for “Creating Fire-Adapted Community” such as aspect, backfire, and backpack pump/bladder bag. February 2014
Landscape Calculatorfile Farsite
Landscape Calculatorfile Farsite The landscape calculator allows you to perform mathematical or logical operations on the data in the themes of your landscape file. This is often useful when you need to modify data in the Landscape (.LCP) File but don’t have a GIS (or want to use one). The landscape calculator is intended to …
JFSP General Handout
JFSP General Handout Joint Fire Science Program general information handout August 2017
Managing Fire and Smoke on a Landscape Scale
Managing Fire and Smoke on a Landscape Scale PowerPoint Presentation by Dennis Carril, Fire Ecologist, Santa Fe National Forest 2014
Smoke and Health Alerts
Smoke and Health Alerts PowerPoint presentation by Jeff Stonesifer City of Albuquerque Environmental Health Department Director: Mary Lou Leonard November 6, 2014
Fall 2012 Newsletter
Fall 2012 Newsletter Copy of our fall 2012 newsletter
Weather File (.WTR) Information Sheet
Weather File (.WTR) Information Sheet The Weather (.WTR) File is a ASCII text file required for any FARSITE simulation. A Weather (.WTR) File contains daily observations on temperature and humidity as well as precipitation that depicts a temporal weather stream. The weather stream greatly oversimplifies actual variation in weather. However, this format is an attempt …
April 2, 2015: Tamarisk invasion and fire in Southwestern desert ecosystems
Presenter: Gail Drus, St. Francis University Increased wildfire has been observed with the displacement of native cottonwood-willow (Salix and Populus spp.) gallery forests by invasive, non-native tamarisk (Tamarix spp.) in desert riparian zones of North America. Greater post-fire recovery of Tamarix relative to native species suggests a Tamarix fire trajectory where repeated fire excludes native …
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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 June 20 and burned 15,075 acres northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona. Following the fire, intense monsoon …
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 the same time, many water resources are drying up. And fish populations throughout the western …
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