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October 17, 2012: Economics of Ecological Restoration and Hazardous Fuel Reduction Treatments

by swfscEvents, Webinars October 18, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Yeon-Su Kim (Northern Arizona University) and Diane Vosick (Ecological Restoration Institute) What are the economic values of landscape-level ecological restoration and hazardous fuel treatments? The Ecological Restoration Institute at Northern Arizona University (ERI) assembled a team of wildland fire economists to conduct a rapid evidence-based assessment, as well as to design a timely and efficient …

September 27, 2012: Track Fire

by swfscEvents, Field Trips October 1, 2012May 18, 2023Comments are Disabled

A one day tour of the Track Fire near Raton, New Mexico. The fire started on June 12, 2012 from ATV Carbon exhaust flakes. It burned New Mexico and Colorado public and private land requiring interstate logistics. Some burned areas received cooperative post-fire watershed rehabilitation treatments from the City of Raton, the states of New …

September 19, 2012: Social Network Analysis

by swfscEvents, Webinars October 1, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Vita Wright (Northern Rockies Fire Science Network) Recent science communication studies of the federal fire management community suggest managers access research via informal information networks, and that these networks vary by both agency and position. We used a phone survey to understand the informal science communication networks of fire professionals in two of the …

March 2012: FRCC Workshop – (Albuquerque, NM and Flagstaff, AZ)

by swfscEvents, Workshops July 12, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Fire Regime Condition Class (FRCC) assessments have been widely used for evaluating ecosystem status in many areas of the U.S. FRCC employs state-and-transition modeling to describe historical vegetation and fire regimes, which provides reference information related to landscape fire frequency, severity, and vegetation composition. Similarity indexing is used to compare historical versus current vegetation and …

January-March 2012: Computer Modeling for Fuels Specialists

by swfscEvents, Workshops July 11, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

The purpose of this workshop/webinar hybrid is to develop a working knowledge of computer models and their applications as needed to provide vegetation and fuels assessment input for unit and project-level planning. Fuels specialists in particular need tools that will help them assess existing and future vegetation conditions and the impact of treatments on fire …

May 16, 2012: Wildland Fire Assessment Tool

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Eva Strand & Josh Hyde (NIFTT University of Idaho) WFAT provides an interface between ArcMap, FlamMap 5, and the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM), combining their strengths into a spatial fire behavior and fire effects analysis tool in GIS. In the webinar, you will learn how to use WFAT to locate potential fuel …

December 14, 2011: Carbon and water balances of southwestern ponderosa pine forests

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

In this webinar Dr. Thomas Kolb summarized the key findings of a six-year study of impacts of intense fire and fuel-reduction thinning on the carbon and water balances of ponderosa pine forests in Arizona. The results should be of interest to fire and forest managers and climate change scientists who want more information about impacts …

October 19, 2011: Fuel Treatment Effectiveness on the Wallow Fire

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenters: Jim Pitts and Judy Palmer (USFS) A small team was assembled to work with the Apache-Sitgreave National Forest and local partners to assess the effects of the fuel treatments and compile a report with the findings. The report “How Fuel Treatments Saved Homes from the 2011 Wallow Fire” was the product of this effort. …

March 2010: Ecological Impact of Mastication

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Mike Battaglia (USFS RMRS) presented results from the Joint Fire Science Project on the Ecological Impact of Mastication. Mike reported on the impact of mastication on the chemical and physical conditions of the forest floor, vegetation regrowth, and fuel development. The study included 18 sites across four ecosystems of the southern Rocky Mountains and the …

July 28, 2010: A Synthesis of the Science on Forests and Carbon for U.S. Forests

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Dr. Mike Ryan, USDA Forest Service Research Forest Ecologist, presented a scientific synthesis of the forest carbon cycle. The synthesis covers the entire US, but Dr. Ryan focused on the western US for this webinar. Forests play a key role in the carbon cycle and their growth and harvested wood products currently offsets 12-19% of …