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Postfire Management in Frequent-Fire Conifer Forests

by swfscWebinars December 20, 2021February 12, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Dr. Jens T. Stevens, National Program Lead for the Wildland Fire and Fuels Research, USDA Forest ServiceDate: January 19, 2022 12pm Mountain Standard Time The increasing incidence of large wildfires with extensive stand-replacing effects across the southwestern United States is altering the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests. While management of …

Fire-weather Drivers of Severity and Spread: Example from Grand Canyon

by swfscWebinars June 23, 2021February 12, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Stephanie Mueller, Northern Arizona UniversityDate: July 29, 2021 11am AZ / 12pm MDT Fire is an essential component in restoring and maintaining a healthy forest. However, historic land use and decades of fire suppression has excluded fire from millions of forested hectares across much of the western United States, including the Grand Canyon National …

Restoration Treatments: Reducing Fuels and Increasing Understory Diversity

by swfscWebinars March 9, 2021March 8, 2024No Comments

Presenters: Mike Stoddard, Ecological Restoration Institute and Matt Tuten, USDA Forest ServiceDate: Thursday April 15, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT This webinar will share research on forest structure and understory vegetation responses to three restoration treatments (thin/burn, burn, and control) over 10 years on a mixed-conifer site in southwestern Colorado. Forest density, canopy cover, and crown …

Indigenous Fire Management & the WUI

by swfscWebinars February 22, 2021March 8, 2024No Comments

Date: March 4, 2021 12pm Mountain/1pm CentralPresenters: Chris Roos, Southern Methodist University; Chris Toya and John Galvan, Jemez Pueblo As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although this problem seems distinctly modern, Native American communities have lived in WUI contexts for centuries. When …

Healthy low-burning fire weaves underneath trees like a river of liquid gold.

Prescribed Fires & Fire Regimes

by swfscWebinars January 12, 2021March 8, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Dr. Molly Hunter, USGS SW Climate Adaptation Science Center, Research Manager / Joint Fire Science Program, Science AdvisorDate: January 28, 2021 12pm MST Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also …

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 …

April 9, 2019: Use of the Target Plant Concept to Promote Successful Post-Fire Forest Restoration

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 3, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

Presenters: Owen Burney, PhD, Associate Professor and Superintendent John T. Harrington Forestry Research Center, New Mexico State University Date: April 9, 2019 11am AZ/12pm MDT Restoration of severely burned forest lands is limited in the southwestern US primarily due to a lack of research and resources. For those areas that have been reforested, there has been …

Tag: Fire Regimes & Fire History

Postfire Management in Frequent-Fire Conifer Forests

Fire-weather Drivers of Severity and Spread: Example from Grand Canyon

Restoration Treatments: Reducing Fuels and Increasing Understory Diversity

Indigenous Fire Management & the WUI

Prescribed Fires & Fire Regimes

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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