Events
Fires of unusual size: Does it mean what you think it means
Webinar recording. Fires of Unusual Size (FOUS) are large fires that exhibit at least one rapid growth event, and keep growing after that. While "megafire" is widely used and has no specific definition, FOUS are defined by specific characteristics. We can count how many happen each year, and we can ask scientific questions about how…
Native seed: Supplying restoration
Webinar recording. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in collaboration with the Society of Ecological Restoration’s International Network for Seed-based Restoration (SER-INSR), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Holden Films, produced…
Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices: A Virtual Class
Application required. The Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices training is designed to increase the skills of the professional mitigation practitioner and individuals who run mitigation programs. Participation in the 9-week…
Grassification and fast-evolving fire connectivity and risk in the Sonoran Desert
Webinar recording In the southwestern United States, non-native grass invasions have increased wildfire occurrence in deserts and the likelihood of fire spread to and from other biomes. Wildfires were historically…
Facing Fire: Aesthetics, Environment, and Policy in the West
Facing Fire: Aesthetics, Environment, and Policy in the West The panel discussion was livestreamed and recorded by Utah Public Radio. View the recording here. A cross-disciplinary panel with artists, policy…
8th Annual SageCon Summit
Summit webpage. The summit will be in Lakeview, OR on Sept. 26-27, 2023. There will be in-person and virtual options.
Rising from ashes: A tribe’s nature-based approach to watershed restoration
Workshop webpage. Rising from Ashes: A Tribe’s Nature-based Approach to Watershed Restoration will highlight an innovative and iconic case study in public and private collaboration on sovereign tribal lands following…
10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration
Conference website. SER2023 will held in person on 26-30 September 2023 in Darwin, Australia with additional virtual content delivery in the Western Hemisphere time zone during the week of 6…
LANDFIRE Office Hours: How IFTDSS is changing the look of fuels planning
Webinar recording. In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Kim Ernstrom, and Wendy Detwiler, Wildland Fire Management RD&A, Technical Leads IFTDSS (and Josh Hyde: Tech Transfer Specialist, University of Idaho) discuss the…
Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA)- Overview and technical discussion
Webinar recording. This webinar will provide an overview of the major changes in CO-WRA, including modification of Scott and Burgan (2005) standard fire behavior fuel models to better reflect fuel…