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

October 21, 2015: Local Ecological Knowledge and Fire Management: What Does the Public Understand?

Date: Wednesday, October 21, 2015 1pm MDT (12pm AZ) Presenters: John Diaz, North Carolina State University As fire management agencies seek to implement more flexible fire management strategies, local understanding and support for these strategies become increasingly important. One issue associated with implementing more flexible fire management strategies is educating local populations about fire management and identifying …

September 2015: Immediate post-wildfire effects on bats in the Southwest

Presenters:  Erin Saunders Northern Arizona University and U.S. Forest Service, and Carol Chambers, Northern Arizona University Ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern U.S. have increased in density over the last 100 years which has dramatically increased the size and frequency of wildfires. Although wildfires rarely kill animals, they have immediate consequences to bat populations by drastically …

BehavePlus Updates V6 Changes

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May 15, 2013: The Structure of Fire Size Distributions: A Broad View of Interacting Gradients in Wilderness Management, Spatial Climate, and Topography in Three Western Regions

Presenter: Sandra Haire, Haire Laboratory for Landscape Ecology Determining the effects of land management on fire regime characteristics is complicated by the interaction of several factors that vary in space and time. First, fire size and frequency are linked to climate conditions, including drought, as well as wind and temperature that define weather conditions during …

General SWFSC Handout April 2015

General SWFSC Handout April 2015 What is the Southwest Fire Science Consortium? General SWFSC information sheet from April 14, 2015