JFSP General Handout

JFSP General Handout Joint Fire Science Program general information handout August 2017

Oct 23, 2019: Large-scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change

Presenter: Lisa McCauley, The Nature Conservancy Date: October 23, 2019 11am AZ/12pm MDT Higher tree density, more fuels, and a warmer, drier climate have caused an increase in the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests. There is an urgent need to restore forests across the western United States. To address this need, …

Oct 16, 2019: Contributions of fire refugia to resilient ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest landscapes

Presenter: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University Date: October 16, 2019 11am AZ/12pm MDT In western North America, ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest types appear increasingly vulnerable to wildfire-catalyzed conversion to alternate and non-forest vegetation types. However, unburned or only lightly impacted forest stands that persist within burn mosaics—termed fire refugia—may sustain a range critical …

Landscape Calculatorfile Farsite

Landscape Calculatorfile Farsite The landscape calculator allows you to perform mathematical or logical operations on the data in the themes of your landscape file. This is often useful when you need to modify data in the Landscape (.LCP) File but don’t have a GIS (or want to use one). The landscape calculator is intended to …

April 25, 2013: Impacts of fire hazard assessment and fuel reduction priorities on mega-fire outcomes: A hypothetical test using the Wallow Fire in Arizona

Presenter: Amy Waltz, Program Director of Science Delivery, Ecological Restoration Institute Uncharacteristically large and severe wildfires, or mega-fires, are occurring with increasing frequency over the last decades in the western United States. The 2011 Wallow Fire, a 538,049-acre (217,740-hectare) fire in the conifer forests of eastern Arizona, provided the opportunity to compare the effectiveness of …

Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX)

Prescribed Fire Training Exchange (TREX) Webinar by Jermey Bailey, Fire Learning Network The Nature Conservancy December 2013 TREX: A Cooperative Burning and Collaborative Fire Training Program