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August 21, 2013: Effects of fuel treatments on wildfire severity

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 4, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenters: Charlotte Reemts, an Ecologist for the Nature Conservancy and Helen Poulos, Wesleyan University Charlotte and Helen teamed up to present this webinar that connected science and management of fire in the Davis Mountains of west Texas. Three wildfires burned through the pinyon-juniper-oak forests of the Davis Mountains in 2011 and 2012. Fuel treatments (prescribed fire, …

June 19, 2013: Effects of Wildland Fire on Lowland Leopard Frogs and their Habitat at Saguaro National Park

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 2, 2013April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Don Swann, Saguaro National Park Don Swann is a biologist at Saguaro National Park, Tucson, Arizona, where he has worked for more than 20 years. He has an MS in Wildlife and Fisheries from University of Arizona. Don’s projects include collaborative research and long-term monitoring of saguaros, desert tortoises, mammals using wildlife cameras, and …

April 2013: White/Donaldson Fires

by swfscEvents, Field Trips May 5, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

A one day field trip to both the White and Donaldson Fires near Ruidoso, New Mexico that reviewed how both fires burned in the same year (2011) with very different effects. We visited unburned and burned areas that received mastication and other fuels treatments, discussed treatments and how they may have affected fire behavior, fire …

March 27, 2013: The Fire Season Outlook for 2013 and How It’s Built

by swfscEvents, Webinars March 28, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Chuck Maxwell, Fire Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center, Predictive Services Chuck Maxwell will discuss how Predictive Services develops seasonal fire potential predictions and what the outlook is this year for the Southwest. Join this webinar to get an inside view of the data and methods that go into fire season predictions, and equally important where …

January 16, 2013: Temperature as a driver of regional forest drought stress and tree mortality

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 17, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Park Williams, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dr. Williams will discuss his recent work to derive a forest drought-stress index (FDSI) for the southwestern United States using a comprehensive tree-ring data set representing AD 1000–2007. This FDSI is linked to measures of forest productivity, mortality, bark-beetle outbreak and wildfire. If climate models are accurate, the …

December 9, 2012: Synthesis of Knowledge of Extreme Fire Behavior for Fire Managers

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 3, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Paul Werth Extreme fire behavior indicates a level of fire behavior characteristics that ordinarily precludes methods of direct control action. One or more of the following is usually involved: high rate of spread, prolific crowning/spotting, presence of fire whirls, and strong convection column. This webinar will summarize the recent JFSP publication that connects the …

November 2013: Living with Fire in Northern New Mexico: Fire, Forests and Communities

by swfscEvents, Workshops November 30, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

This was an interactive workshop with regional scientists and land managers, breakout sessions that allowed for open dialogue with participants and presenters, and time for one on one with presenters and others. Topics covered: The ecology of forests and fire of Northern New Mexico Current conditions in our forests and Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) communities …

November 14, 2012: Wildland Fire in Ecosystems: Effects of Fire on Cultural Resources

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 15, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Kevin Ryan This webinar provided an introduction to the new edition of the Rainbow series that provides fire and land management professionals and policy makers with a greater understanding of the value of cultural resource protection and the methods available to evaluate and mitigate risks to cultural resources. Watch the webinar recording.

November 8-9, 2012: Horseshoe Two Fire

by swfscEvents, Field Trips November 5, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

The Horseshoe Two Fire began on May 8, 2011 on the east side of the Chiricahua Mountains in southeastern Arizona and burned northeast into the Chiricahua National Monument. The topics covered on this field trip included landscape scale fire management, fire effects, operations, impacts on wildlife, post-fire rehabilitation efforts, and treatment effectiveness. Day one covered …

October 24, 2012: Whitewater-Baldy Complex

by swfscEvents, Field Trips October 26, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

We hosted a one day field trip to explore New Mexico’s largest wildfire*, the Whitewater Baldy Complex, that burned 297,845 acres (465 square miles) on the Gila National Forest during the extremely dry and windy spring of 2012. The tour discussed the fire regimes of the fuel types that burned, the interaction of past fires …