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 is characterizing post-fire conifer regeneration in severely burned patches, and how regeneration characteristics are governed …
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General SWFSC Handout General info on SWFSC from April 1, 2013
Vegetation Type Conversion Workshop Summary 2020 Workshop: Vegetation type conversion in the Southwest: A workshop summary Authors: Rachel M. Gregg (EcoAdapt) and Laura A. Marshall (University of Arizona)
Explore maps of the most notable fires in Arizona and New Mexico 1909*-2021. Shown are the fires listed in our Wildfire Season Overview products as well as any fire over 100,000 acres. All of the maps are georeferenced and can be put on Avenza or a similar app to be utilized on a mobile device! *The available …
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Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY In our last episode of the season we process out loud the fire season that is 2020. We hear from folks directly impacted and talk to a certified climate expert to learn how climate change is (or isn’t) causing the fires on the west coast. EPISODE NOTES Cally …
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WUFS Call for Presenters Fall 2020 Call for Presentations for the 2020 New Mexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit in Las Vegas, San Miguel County, NM on October 22-23, 2020 Theme: All Lands, All Neighbors (for wildfire resilience) Audience: The NM Wildland Urban Summit is attended by community members, fire service volunteers and professionals, non-profit conservation …
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Presenter: Park Williams, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Williams will discuss his recent work to derive a forest drought-stress index (FDSI) for the southwestern United States using a comprehensive tree-ring data set representing AD 1000–2007. This FDSI is linked to measures of forest productivity, mortality, bark-beetle outbreak and wildfire. If climate models are accurate, the …
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Carbon Cycling in Southwestern Forests: Reservoirs, Fluxes, and the Effects of Fire and Management Ecological Restoration Institute Working Paper 35 Author: Tyson L. Swetnam and Donald A. Falk September 2015
AZ WUI Summit Program Book – Final
Southwest FireCLIME is a multi-year research partnership between scientists and resource managers to synthesize current knowledge of regional climate-fire-ecosystem dynamics. Our project has addressed this goal through science synthesis, an annotated bibliography, modeling, a vulnerability assessment, and Fire-Climate adaptation tools. For more information, visit the website: https://swfireclime.org/ Funded by the Joint Fire Science Program, research …
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