Events
Climate, vegetation trends, big game topics 3/6: 2025 USGS webinar series
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 3/6/2025, USGS researchers, Matt Rigge, Martin Holdrege, and Shawn O'Neil shared research on vegetation trends and their relationships to climate, invasion, and disturbance, Gregor Siegmund, Alice…
Defend and Grow the Core: Implementing the Sagebrush Conservation Design
Webinar recording (1:00:34) The Sagebrush Conservation Design (SCD) is a tool to identify intact sagebrush areas and address the largest threats to the ecosystem. The SCD focuses on first protecting intact and functioning sagebrush ecosystems, called Core Sagebrush Areas, then works outward toward more degraded areas (i.e., “Defend the Core”). The premise behind the Defend…
Sage-grouse, carbon topics 1/30: 2025 USGS webinar series
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 1/30/2025, USGS researchers, Pete Coates, Cali Weise, Greg Wann, and Shawna Zimmerman shared their latest on sage-grouse research and tool, and Seren Bagcilar shared research findings…
IMAGINE 2025 virtual workshop
Register. Invasive annual grasses (IAG) - including cheatgrass, medusahead, ventanata, and others - continue to be a primary cause of rangeland degradation in the western US. In this workshop, we build upon concepts presented in previous events (see https://www.invasivegrasses.com/virtual-workshop) and focus specifically on turning strategies into action for managing IAG. Not only will we learn…
Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment in IFTDSS
Webinar recording (43:56) Join the LANDFIRE Office Hour as Nicole Vaillant (Fire Management Specialist, RMRS, Fire Lab, Wildland Fire Management RD&A) discusses how conducting a Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment (QWRA) can enhance land management by evaluating wildfire risk and benefits across a landscape. This information can help plan fuel treatments, suppression responses, and fire effects…
Westwide rangeland fuel assessment with Matt Reeves, USFS: Reading the tea leaves S6, E2
Webinar recording (7:49) The recent fires that swept the central and southern plains are catastrophic and exhibited extreme fire behavior. Fire behavior is a result of fuels, weather and topography and in this case the weather and fuels were extreme, and most importantly, the timing was just right. In this webcast, USFS, Research Ecologist Dr.…
Invasive species, restoration effectiveness, monitoring topics 2/6: 2025 USGS webinar series
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 2/6/2025, USGS researchers, Stephen Boyte and Morgan Roche shared their latest research on cheatgrass and fine fuels, Bryan Tarbox and Erica Christensen shared research on restoration…
Wildland Fire Peer-Learning Exchange
Event webpage. The ANREP National Extension Wildland Fire Initiative or "NEWFI" is pleased to announce that NEWFI and its partners will be hosting a peer-learning exchange on wildland fire this spring 2025 in Wawona, CA, Yosemite's Historic Town. This peer-learning exchange was initially piloted in 2023 through NEWFI's collaboration with NC State Extension Forestry, alongside…
National Resource Inventory (NRI) on-site grazing land study
Webinar join link. The NRI program collects and produces scientifically credible information on the status, condition, and trends of land, soil, water, and related natural resources on the nation’s non-federal lands. It is the largest field-based survey of natural resources in the world. Inventories of natural resources have been conducted for over 65 years on…
Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership annual conference
Registration opens in March. Please mark your calendars for the 2025 Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership Annual Conference. We will host the conference at the Barber Park Education and Event Center in Boise on the following dates: April 22, 2025. 10:00am-4:00pm MDT April 23, 2025. 8:00am-12pm MDT