Events
“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
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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.
Recreating and relating to the land after fire
Webinar recording. Wildfires reshape recreation access and experiences over the short and long term. A researcher shares emerging science that is revealing how people return to and perceive wildfire-affected landscapes, and a manager shares how they navigate decisions about supporting recreation in these contexts.
The fire problem
Webinar recording. Join us for a watch party for a new documentary "The Fire Problem." Released by the University of Montana, the video features interviews with several Forest Service researchers.