Events
The science behind strategic community wildfire risk reduction: Development of Oregon’s draft statewide wildfire hazard and WUI maps
View video (15:11). Development of Oregon's draft statewide wildfire hazard and wildland-urban interface maps, by Andy McEvoy, Faculty Research Assistant at the Oregon State University College of Forestry.vid
Science-Management Discussion on the Current Knowledge of Fuel Breaks – Recording Ready
Discussion Recording. An informal discussion on current fuel break knowledge from science and management. Brief presentations on the latest in fuel break science and practice, and discussions around your fuel break questions. Presenters: Doug Shinneman, Research Fire Ecologist with USGS, and Lance Okeson, Fire Management Officer with Boise District BLM
“Mann Gulch, Norman Maclean, and Young Men and Fire” with Stephen Pyne
View webinar recording. On August 5, 1949, a fire was spotted at Mann Gulch, near Helena, Montana. The U.S. Forest Service dispatched a team of 15 smokejumpers, who were met by a fire guard from a nearby campground. When the fire blew up, thirteen firefighters were killed, three escaped. While the Forest Service studied what…
Virtual fence 101: Exploring the boundaries of virtual fence
View webinar recording.
Increasing the success of invasive annual grass restoration projects
View webinar recording. This webinar for land management practitioners goes deep on subjects like wildfire prevention, rangeland restoration, and invasive vegetation treatments.
Colorado Wildland Fire Conference
Conference webpage. The 2024 Meeting the Moment Conference will be October 1-4, 2024 at Viewline Resort Snowmass, 100 Elbert Ln, Snowmass Village, CO 81615.
Federal wildland firefighter health and wellbeing webinar series
Webinar recordings.
Natural Areas Conference 2024
Conference website. 2024 Natural Areas Conference (NAC24) October 7-10, 2024 Manhattan, Kansas For the past 50 years, NAA’s Natural Areas Conference has gathered federal, state, tribal, regional, and local natural areas practitioners from national nonprofit organizations, private industry, and academic institutions in order to foster communication and collaboration that can lead to progress in connection…
Post-fire restoration infrastructure: Adjusting our systems to new patterns of runoff
Webinar recording. We reengineer and rebuild after wildfire through a range of treatments, trying to match our built infrastructure to new, amplified patterns of runoff. A national wildfire practitioner speaks to how leaders and policy makers are increasingly recognizing the need to manage the built environment to accommodate these changes, and an environmental engineer shares…
Ecological drought: Future of aquatic flows
Webinar recording. This webinar will explore how climate change is altering aquatic flows in streams and rivers across the country. Implications of how the nexus of climate and aquatic flows may impact aquatic ecosystem management will also be discussed. Research findings from the 2022–2024 Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral (CAP) Fellows cohort will be shared.