Full FELL Curriculum

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Land Use Planning as a Strategy for Fire Adapted Communities

Presenter: Molly Mowery, AICP, Executive Director, Community Wildfire Planning CenterDate: August 26, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT As communities across the U.S. face increasing threats from wildfire, there is also a growing interest in land use planning as a strategy to reduce risk and foster more resilient outcomes. Land use planning provides a variety of tools, …

Collaborative Planning for Fire-Adapted Communities

Presenter: Dr. Fermin Alcasena Date: August 26, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Despite the growing number of extreme fires occurring in wildland-urban interface areas of the western US, the development of wildfire risk reduction programs aimed at creating fire-adapted communities has been scarce. We present a management-oriented collaborative planning case study for the rural communities in …

Let’s talk WUI

Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY We talked with two scientists about life in the Wildland Urban Interface or WUI. We were particularly curious about why people choose to move into these areas even when the risks are well known and have been demonstrated pretty dramatically in the past few years. We wanted to …

March 4, 2020: Building a prescribed fire program on the Colorado Front Range: The role of landowner Engagement

Presenter: Katie McGrath, Colorado State University Date: March 4, 2020 12pm MST Despite recognition of the value of prescribed fire in scientific literature and policy, a number of factors impede its widespread implementation in the United States. Social acceptance of prescribed fire is a key factor, making consistent and effective outreach an important part of efforts …

Nov 13, 2019: Assessment of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Arizona and the Western U.S.

Presenter: Melanie Colavito, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University Date: November 13, 2019 12pm MST One mechanism with which communities-at-risk from wildfire have addressed planning and adaptation to wildfire are Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), which were created as part of the Healthy Forest Restoration Act in 2003. CWPPs are required to include measures to …