Description: The topic of “managed wildfire” is mired in complexity, starting with what to call it. This fire management approach has been known as “prescribed natural fire,” “wildland fire use,” “resource objective fire,” and more. All names refer to the same essential idea: leveraging natural ignitions to safely reintroduce wildfire to landscapes that evolved with it …
Protecting Old Trees from Prescribed Burning
Spring Ecosystems Monitoring for the Four Forest Restoration Initiative
Fires of Change March 6, 2019 Fires of Change: Communicating Fire Science through Art The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is successfully bringing together fire managers, practitioners, and scientists to assure the best science is used to address the most pressing fire management challenges. One way they are meeting this challenge is by communicating fire science …
Fact Sheet: Methods for Estimating Surface Live Fuel Loading
This report is the 9th in a series of annual overviews available from the Southwest Fire Science Consortium and the Ecological Restoration Institute. The goal of this overview is to provide a concise summary of the fire season and to facilitate comparison with past fires and fire seasons.
Newsletter 2012 winter
CART: Measuring the Effects of Fire Severity on Forest Resilience
Fact Sheet Smoke Management August 2018 NAU and ERI Fact Sheet Resources for Predicting and Mitigating Smoke Impacts of Wildland Fires August 2018
Panelists: Pete Fulé – Northern Arizona University, Collin Haffey – USGS Jemez Field Station, José Iniguez and Suzanne Owen – USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Jim Youtz – USFS Southwestern Region, Joy Mast – Carthage College The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is hosting a panel discussion on regeneration of pine forests after high severity wildfires. …