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Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American landscapes

by swfscWebinars October 23, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Presenters: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University; Sean Parks, USDA Forest Service; Camille Stevens-Rumann, Colorado State UniversityDate: November 18, 2020 11am Mountain Time Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburning. A …

Policy Change & Wildland Fire Management

by swfscWebinars October 13, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Date: October 22, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDTPresenter: Jesse Young, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Northern Arizona University In 2009, new guidance for wildland fire management in the United States expanded the range of strategic options for managers working to reduce the threat of high-severity wildland fire, improve forest health and respond to a changing climate. Markedly, the new …

Good Fire

by swfscPodcasts September 10, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

EPISODE SUMMARY Living with fire means different things to different people. In this episode Cally and Collin talk with Jeremy Bailey and Pepe Iniguez about how prescribed fire and managed fire might help us create a pathway that leads us living with fire. We talk about some of the barriers and some interesting marketing strategies. …

Resilience in National Forest Planning

by swfscWebinars August 19, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Jesse Abrams, University of Georgia Date: September 9, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national forestlands. But what does resilience mean, what does it take to plan for resilient landscapes, …

Southwest Vegetation Type Conversion: A workshop summary

by swfscField Trips, Workshops August 17, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

by Rachel M. Gregg, EcoAdapt, and Laura A. Marshall, University of Arizona Increasingly common large and severe fires in the Southwest are now often followed by vegetation type conversions (VTC) where once-dominant vegetation fails to return to its pre-fire state. Case studies have documented abrupt transitions from forests to shrublands or from shrublands to grasslands. …

Watersheds and Waterfunds

by swfscPodcasts July 28, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY Cally and Collin talk with Laura McCarthy and Bill Armstrong about how folks pulled together to restore the forest in the municipal watershed of Santa Fe, NM. From there Laura went on to start the Rio Grande Water Fund which covers 7 million acres in New Mexico. In …

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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 …

Oct 23, 2019: Large-scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 28, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Lisa McCauley, The Nature Conservancy Date: October 23, 2019 11am AZ/12pm MDT Higher tree density, more fuels, and a warmer, drier climate have caused an increase in the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests. There is an urgent need to restore forests across the western United States. To address this need, …

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

Tag: Fuels Reduction/Restoration

Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American landscapes

Policy Change & Wildland Fire Management

Good Fire

Resilience in National Forest Planning

Southwest Vegetation Type Conversion: A workshop summary

Watersheds and Waterfunds

After the Fire: Learning from Burned Areas in the Southwest

Oct 23, 2019: Large-scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change

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

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