Southwest Tribal Fire and Climate Resilience – 2023 Virtual Workshop

This is part of an ongoing effort to respect tribal sovereignty and treaty rights by supporting tribal use of fire as part of cultural and ecological resilience, and seeks to increase capacities, ameliorate challenges, and share examples that can guide tribes across the Southwest. In 2023, we gathered virtually to explore issues facing tribes relating …

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 …

Resiliency Conference 2014 Summary

Resiliency Conference 2014 Summary Fostering resilience in Southwestern ecosystems: Proceedings from a problem solving workshop Tucson, Arizona from February 25-27, 2014 Proceedings summarized by Alexander Evans and Anne Bradley, March 2015

Surface fire showing rising smoke among trees, coming up from a small ground fire. The ground is a mix of charred earth and grass.

Managed Wildfire

Date: March 23, 2022 11am AZ/12pm Mountain DaylightPresenters: Stephen D. Fillmore, PhD Student, University of Idaho, Dr. Sarah McCaffrey To improve understanding of the managed wildfire decision-making process on federal lands (USA), we conducted a mixed methods review of the existing literature. The review was published in September, 2021 in the journal Fire. The review …