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Buffelgrass: Southern Arizona Fights Back

by swfscVideos June 22, 2012February 12, 2024No Comments

The ecological and economic threat that buffelgrass poses to the community of Tucson and the surrounding area has sparked an unprecedented level of cooperation among land managers, nonprofits, government at all levels, and representatives from the business community. The Southern Arizona Buffelgrass Coordination Center represents a model of cross-‐jurisdiction cooperation and community engagement in response to an environmental threat.

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March 21, 2012: LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool

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

Presenters: Tobin Smail & Charley Martin, (US Geological Survey). The LANDFIRE Total Fuel Change Tool (LFTFC) allows users to edit LANDFIRE fuels attributes and associated layers directly with an ArcMap Toolbar. This webinar provides an overview of LFTFC’s capabilities to edit and add rule sets for changing fuel attributes based on existing vegetation type (EVT), …

February 27, 2012: Las Conchas Fire

by swfscEvents, Field Trips February 27, 2012February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

This field trip through the Las Conchas Fire scar was part of the SW AFE Fire Ecology Conference in Santa Fe. We visited Valles Caldera and Bandelier National Monument and made several stops in between. The Las Conchas fire began when a gust of wind blew an aspen over onto a power line on June …

June 2011: Santa Fe Watershed Forum and Field Trip

by swfscEvents, Field Trips July 1, 2011February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

A large and diverse group of collaborators has successfully initiated restoration of ponderosa pine forests in the Santa Fe municipal watershed, which provides up to 50% of Santa Fe’s water. Follow-up prescribed fire treatments within sight of the state capital building have been successful in part due to continuing outreach to maintain high levels of …

May 18, 2011: Fuels Treatment Practices for Mixed Conifer Forests in the Southwest

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 14, 2011April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Alexander Evans (Forest Guild) The webinar covered the guide’s definition of mixed conifer, past land use and management activities, fire regimes and historic conditions, and impact of altered fire regimes in mixed conifer forests of the southwest. Since Euro-American settlement, many mixed conifer forests have become more homogeneous and can therefore facilitate larger, higher-severity …

March 2011: Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop

by swfscEvents, Workshops March 31, 2011February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Facilitated discussions, presentations, and workshops on restoration and fuels treatments in southwestern vegetation types. Download Agenda/Schedule here Download presentations here: Near Misses… – Alex Viktora Fuels Management… – Robin Wills

Protecting Old Trees from Prescribed Burning

by swfscScience Synthesis February 1, 2011October 21, 2024No Comments

One of the real problems land managers encounter when they work in areas with old-growth trees is the possibility that prescribed burns—a recommended and useful restoration technique, especially when proceeded by mechanical thinning—may kill or seriously injure these biologically and socially important trees. This tricky situation developed in part because decades of fire suppression have …

Estimating Surface Live Fuel Loading

by swfscFactsheet February 1, 2011April 8, 2024No Comments

View fact sheet. Written by Dr. Molly Hunter, February 2011