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April 27-28, 2018: Arizona Wildland Urban Interface Summit

by swfscEvents, Workshops March 26, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

This two-day summit is designed for homeowners, community members and emergency response agencies to exchange information on various wildfire preparedness and mitigation actions, in an effort to reduce loss and increase safety within their community. Topics include the Firewise USA program, hazard fuel reduction grants, insurance issues, Fire Adapted Communities program, Ready-Set-Go!, emergency management, forest …

April 10-12, 2018: New Mexico Wildland Urban Fire Summit

by swfscEvents, Workshops March 26, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

The Wildland Urban Fire (WUF) Summit is one of New Mexico’s largest events designed to discuss and prepare the state for wildfires, including the impending 2018 wildfire season. The theme for this year’s WUF Summit is “Collaborative Community Action” and this topic will be highlighted throughout the two-day summit. There will be three concurrent track …

March 16, 2018: Diversity: Just gender and race…Or a diversity of perspectives?

by swfscEvents, Webinars March 1, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: March 16, 2018 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Sara Brown, USFS Human Performance & Organizational Learning Research, Development & Applications Let us unpack an “uncomfortable” question: Why don’t women in fire universally encourage more women to join fire? This discussion will be based on the following premise: “fitting in with the firefighter culture is essential for safety …

January 10, 2018: The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 5, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire Date: January 10, 2018 12pm Mountain Presenter: Rachel Reimer, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada This project utilized a feminist appreciative approach to Action Research to facilitate a conversation about gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS). The research question was, “How …

November 14, 2017: Where there’s smoke… there’s social science! Public perceptions of smoke & communication from multiple regions

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 2, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: November 14, 2017 12pm Mountain Presenters: Stacey Frederick, Coordinator, California Fire Science Consortium The importance of smoke has been well-observed by managers through frequent concerns expressed over smoke. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on using prescribed fire as a management tool, have been under study for almost a decade. However, research …

August 31, 2017: The East Jemez Landscape Futures Project

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 8, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: August 31, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Collin Haffey, USGS Jemez Mountains Field Station The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative process that aims to develop a holistic and forward-looking approach to managing areas of the eastern Jemez Mountains severely altered by drought, high severity fire, and post-fire flooding. To engage a diversity …

June 14, 2017: Recovery & adaptation after wildfire across the United States, 2009-2011

by swfscEvents, Webinars June 1, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: June 14, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Miranda H. Mockrin, USFS Northern Research Station Becoming a fire-adapted community that can live with wildfire is envisioned as a continuous, iterative process of adaptation. In eight case study sites across the United States we examined how destructive wildfire affected altered progress towards becoming fire-adapted, focusing on the …

May 17, 2017: Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: Linking operational fire response to landscape planning objectives

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 3, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Getting ahead of the wildfire problem: Linking operational fire response to landscape planning objectives Date: May 17, 2017 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Christopher O’Connor, US Forest Service RMRS Human Dimension Program, Wildfire Risk Management Team Part of the solution to dealing with the increasing complexity of wildfire management is to reduce uncertainties inherent within active fire …

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, …