Fuel treatments in sagebrush and other semiarid uplands: The FIREss approach to improving mapping, planning, and effectiveness

Webinar recording (51:43).

In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Matt Germino, Supervisory Research Ecologist, Jake Price, Ecologist, Chad Kluender, Ecologist, and Cara Applestein, Ecologist (U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center) discuss fuel treatments and management challenges in sagebrush and other semiarid uplands of the western US. The USGS FIREss team (Fires, Invasives, Restoration of Shrub Steppe) discuss their techniques for adapting new technologies to manage invasive annual grass and wildfire risks at landscape scales. They discuss new approaches to modeling and monitoring that are built on LANDFIRE, RAP and other digital tools.