Events

Wildfire and climate change for teachers (grades 6-12)

Check back for upcoming virtual workshop opportunities and curriculum materials. Engage your students in hands-on activities to explore climate change and wildfire in the Southwest! This standards-aligned curriculum unit developed in coordination with the USDA Southwest Climate Hub uses experiments, games, demonstrations, and a group project to introduce students to how increased temperature and changes…

FlamMap 6.2: An introduction and overview of new capabilities

Webinar recording. Description: This webinar will provide an introduction and overview of the FlamMap modeling system and its new capabilities with focus on several new additions: Landscape Utility for the creation and extraction of LANDFIRE based landscape files Spatial version of the First Order Fire Effects Model (FOFEM) Additional support for raster formats GeoTIFFs now…

An Indigenous framework to guide research and restoration in fire-adapted landscapes

Webinar recording. Description: Worldwide, Indigenous peoples are leading the revitalization of their/our cultures through the restoration of ecosystems in which they are embedded, including in response to increasing “megafires.” Yet, despite growing recognition that just and effective conservation is only possible through partnerships with, or led by, Indigenous peoples, decolonizing approaches to restoration have received…

Western Governors’ Association Annual Meeting

Meeting website. The two-day event, hosted by Idaho Governor and WGA Chair Brad Little, featured the Western Governors and their specials guests in public conversations about western drought, cross-boundary land management, cybersecurity, clean energy, broadband deployment and telehealth expansion.

Wildfire impacts on water infrastructure

Webinar recording. Join presenter Erica Fisher for a summary of what we know so far about how structures in wildfires influence our water infrastructure and what can be done to…

PNW August 2022 Drought and Climate Outlook

Webinar recording. According to the August 2, 2022 U.S. Drought Monitor, 39.5% of the Pacific Northwest Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) is in drought. A very wet spring and early…

Climate conversations: Wildfire

Webinar recording. Climate change is increasing the frequency, severity, and extent of area burned by wildfires in the U.S., putting more people at risk of exposure to fire itself and…