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 …

Initial Fuel Moistures File (.FMS) Information Sheet

Initial Fuel Moistures File (.FMS) Information Sheet Initial Fuel Moistures File (.FMS) The Initial Fuel Moistures (.FMS) File is a ASCII text file required for any FARSITE or FlamMap simulation. Custom Fuel Model (.FMD) Files are interchangeable between the two applications. By Mary Lata, 2012

May 18, 2011: Fuels Treatment Practices for Mixed Conifer Forests in the Southwest

Presenter: Alexander Evans (Forest Guild) The webinar covered the guide’s definition of mixed conifer, past land use and management activities, fire regimes and historic conditions, and impact of altered fire regimes in mixed conifer forests of the southwest. Since Euro-American settlement, many mixed conifer forests have become more homogeneous and can therefore facilitate larger, higher-severity …

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 Rockies regions. Fire Regime Reports summarize information from thousands of LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings models, which …

October 3, 2017: Modeling Dynamic Fuels with an Index System: MoD-FIS in the Great Basin & Southwestern U.S.

Webinar presenters: Charley Martin, LANDFIRE Fuels Team Lead, and Tobin Smail, Fire & Fuels GIS specialist, both Technical Support Services Contractors to the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center Date: October 3, 2017 11:30am AZ/12:30pm MDT This webinar is co-hosted by LANDFIRE and members of the Joint Fire Science Program: Great Basin Fire Science, Southwest …

Workshop Final Roundtables Participant Overview

Workshop Final Roundtables Participant Overview Fostering Resilience in Southwestern Ecosystems: A problem-solving workshop February 25 – 27, 2014 Tucson, Arizona Roundtable Sessions Overview

Black Lake TREX

Black Lake TREX Southwest Fire Science Consortium Webinar Series Black Lake Prescribed Burn: Lessons Learned in Capacity Building for Prescribed Fire Photo: Mark Meyers January 15, 2014 Presentation by Eytan Krasilovsky, Forest Guild