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2020 SW Wildfire Season Overview

by swfscSouthwestern Wildfire Season Overview August 5, 2021February 12, 2024No Comments

by M. Lynch and A. Evans. In 2020, wildfire burned 1,068,373 acres in the Southwest (Arizona and New Mexico), which is greater than the average number of acres burned annually in these two states over the previous ten-year period.” Arizona had significantly more wildfire (929,522 acres) than its ten-year average (305,623 acres), while New Mexico …

After the “Big One” part 2

by swfscPodcasts June 26, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Released June 26, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. Catastrophic fires in the Southwest are often a double whammy of fire and floods. The floods that followed the 2011 Las Conchas Fire caused massive erosion, impaired water quality, and …

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After the Fire: Learning from Burned Areas in the Southwest

by swfscStory Maps June 10, 2020October 16, 2023No Comments

In the spring of 2019, several partners teamed up with the Burned Area Learning Network to visit coordinate a series of three field trips across the Southwest. Scientists, researchers, and land managers came together to visit burned areas of the Boundary Fire (2017) and Pumpkin Fire (2000) in Arizona, the Las Conchas Fire (2011) in …

Evaluating Change in Bird Communities from Wildfire in the Arizona Sky Islands

by swfscWebinars May 24, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Date: June 17, 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Jamie Sanderlin, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station The avifauna within the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona includes species found nowhere else in the United States, in part due to the availability of diverse habitats created by the mixing of Madrean and Cordilleran ecosystems. Neotropical migratory bird species …

Fire and Soils in Frequent-Fire Landscapes of the Southwest

by swfscScience Synthesis April 29, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Working Paper 43 by Dan Binkley, Adjunct Faculty, School of Forestry, Northern Arizona University Forests and soils interact so strongly that any major change in one of them leads to a reshaping of the other. Fires consume fuels in a few hours that it took vegetation years or decades to produce. Forest soils are both …

Fire Moss: Natural colonization and post-fire rehabilitation trials

by swfscFactsheet April 14, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Fire Moss: Natural colonization and post-fire rehabilitation trials by Henry Grover, Northern Arizona University

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

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 15, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

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 …

Burning in the Black Range- Using prescribed fire on the Gila National Forest

by swfscVideos August 14, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

A brief look at how the Black Range of the Gila National Forest goes about putting down thousands of acres of prescribed fire. See how the District works in a collaborative and productive manner while working within the multiple-use framework to include grazing, wildlife, recreation, and community outreach. Supported by science, the agency looks to keep fire on the landscape. View the YouTube video here.

2018 SW Wildfire Season Overview

by swfscSouthwestern Wildfire Season Overview July 2, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

2018 Wildfire Season: An Overview- Southwestern U.S. by Michael Lynch and Alexander Evans

May 30, 2019: Sonoran FireAdapt Project

by swfscEvents, Webinars, Workshops May 6, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Clare Aslan, Northern Arizona University Date: May 30, 2019 1-3pm AZ (2-4pm MDT) Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is home to unique species, sites of immense cultural and historical value, and more than 5 million people. This sensitive region is also threatened by a changing fire regime, spurred by climate change, long-term drought, and invasive plants. We used social …

Tag: Fire Ecology

2020 SW Wildfire Season Overview

After the “Big One” part 2

After the Fire: Learning from Burned Areas in the Southwest

Evaluating Change in Bird Communities from Wildfire in the Arizona Sky Islands

Fire and Soils in Frequent-Fire Landscapes of the Southwest

Fire Moss: Natural colonization and post-fire rehabilitation trials

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

Burning in the Black Range- Using prescribed fire on the Gila National Forest

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