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2017 TWS Conference Symposium- Wildfire and spotted owls: It’s a burning issue (co-host)

by swfscConference, Events August 28, 2017November 14, 2024Comments are Disabled

Symposium September 25th: “Wildfire and spotted owls: It’s a burning issue” Study results suggest that wildfires in the western U.S. have increased in size and severity over the past several decades. This increase has raised concern over the effects of fire, particularly high-severity fire, on threatened and endangered species, including the spotted owl (Strix occidentalis). These …

December 2, 2016: Altar Valley

by swfscField Trips July 17, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Altar Valley Field Trip In November and December 2016, we co-hosted a conference in Tucson, Arizona with the Association for Fire Ecology (Beyond hazardous fuels: Managing fire for social, economic, and ecological benefits). During the conference, we arranged three separate field trips. The link below provides information from each stop on the Altar Valley Field …

April 12, 2017: Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in N. Arizona

by swfscEvents, Webinars March 17, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Efficacy of resource objective wildfires for restoring ponderosa pine ecosystems in northern Arizona Date: April 12, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: David Huffman, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University Historical interruption of frequent surface fire regimes and decades of fire exclusion have resulted in degraded ecological conditions in ponderosa pine (Pinus ponderosa) forests of the American …

March 30-April 1, 2017: New Mexico WUI Summit- Albuquerque, NM

by swfscEvents, Workshops February 13, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: March 30-April 1, 2017 Location: Sheraton Airport Hotel The Wildland Urban Interface (WUI) Summit is a statewide traveling conference that is organized by representatives from state and federal agencies and local non-profits. The WUI Summit focuses on topics that teach local leaders, emergency responders, businesses, and citizens the science behind forest fires and what each player’s …

March 29-30, 2017: Arizona WUI & Firewise Summit- Flagstaff, AZ

by swfscEvents, Workshops February 12, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: March 29-30, 2017 Location: Doubletree by Hilton Flagstaff This 2-day summit will equip the homeowner as well as fire departments and wildland firefighters with information and actions they can take to reduce loss and increase safety in their community. Topics include fire ecology, hazard fuel reduction grants, insurance issues, risk assessments, Fire Adapted Communities, Ready, Set, …

March 1, 2017: Fuels treatments and ecological values in piñon-juniper woodlands: Vegetation, birds, and modeled fire behavior

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 11, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: March 1, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Jonathan Coop and Pat Magee Mastication and hand-thinning treatments are increasingly utilized by land managers as a means of reducing tree cover for fire hazard mitigation and other habitat objectives in piñon-juniper (P-J) woodlands. However, the effects of these treatments on ecological processes including fire, and on a wide …

November 16, 2016: Forest density preferences of homebuyers in the WUI

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 1, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: November 16, 2016 12pm MST Presenter: Evan Hjerpe, Conservation Economics Institute and Yeon-Su Kim, Northern Arizona University In the fire-prone Western U.S., the scale of surrounding forest density can be realized by homebuyers as an amenity for aesthetics and cooling effects, or as a disamenity in terms of wildfire risk. There has been a lack of …

Forest Treatments Impacts to Water Quantity

by swfscScience Synthesis November 1, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Working Paper 37 by Dan Binkley Read The influence of restoration treatments on hydrologic output in fire-adapted forests of the Southwest PDF.

October 5, 2016: Developing & maintaining trust in collaborative forest projects

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 21, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Kimberly Coleman, University of Vermont Date: October 5, 2016 This webinar will describe qualitative, case study research that investigated four projects in the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program (CFLRP) to understand how varying organizational structures impacted collaboration. I selected the four case studies to represent the range of organizational structure present through the CFLRP. …

May 18, 2016: Finding the Best Available Science on Fire Effects and Fire Regimes in Southwestern and Southern Rocky Mountains Ecosystems

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 31, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Robin Innes, Ecologist Fire Effects Information System (FEIS, www.feis-crs.org/feis/) staff will introduce new two fire regime products-Fire Regime Reports and Fire Regime Syntheses-and demonstrate FEIS’s new search functions to inform fire management planning and decision-making in the Southwest and Southern Rockies regions. Fire Regime Reports summarize information from thousands of LANDFIRE Biophysical Settings models, which …