Events and Webinars

Webinar registration. Description: Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburning. A potential outcome of the loss of resilience is the conversion of the prefire forest to a different forest type or nonforest vegetation. Conversion implies major, extensive, and enduring changes in dominant species, life forms, or functions, with impacts on ecosystem services. The webinar will synthesize…

Description: Quantification of wildfire severity in forests for northern spotted owls will be presented by Damon Lesmeister, Research Wildlife Biologist California spotted owl responses to fire and lessons for fire management will be presented by Gavin Jones, Research Ecologist Mexican spotted owls and wildfire will be presented by Joseph Ganey, Research Wildlife Biologist; Michael Lommler, Paul Beier, and Jamie Sanderlin, Vertebrate Ecologists Join: ZoomGov Meeting Meeting ID: 161 0453 0612 Password: 377845  

Webinar registration. Can understanding historical fire data provide insights for supporting today's desired ecological outcomes?

Webinar registration. Vegetation management in the shrub steppe is critical to protecting communities and meeting landscape management goals. Chris Schactschneider, OSU Extension, and Seth Hulett, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, will share examples of how grazing and mechanical treatments can be used to change fire behavior.

Webinar registration. A presentation on Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) from multiple perspectives including both scientists and managers. We will discuss how PODs were used in Northern New Mexico past fire seasons where PODS were utilized; with an emphasis on PODs as a fire planning tool, new developments in research and applications, and innovations within the planning framework.

Workshop registration. The California Range Management Advisory Committee, an advisory body to the California Natural Resources Agency under the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, is co-hosting a virtual workshop with the California Fire Science Consortium to discuss the use of prescribed livestock grazing as a sustainable fuel reduction and environmental management tool. Three separate workshops will be hosted on different topics as listed below. Each workshop will be followed by an optional virtual networking hour where participants can engage…

Description: Exploring pyrodiversity and biodiversity: effects of fire on bird and small mammal communities of the Southwest presented by Jamie Sanderlin, Research Vertebrate Ecologist Effects of fire on small mammal communities of the Pacific Northwest presented by Todd Wilson, Wildlife Biologist Threats to California fishers: Reconciling optimal and resilient habitat presented by Craig Thompson, Research Ecologist Join: ZoomGov Meeting Meeting ID: 161 0453 0612 Password: 377845

Webinar registration. Neil Lareau, an atmospheric scientist and assistant professor in the Department of Physics, will give a talk on radar and lidar observations of wildfire plume dynamics. It will include a discussion about how large, high-intensity wildfires can generate their own extreme weather, including fire-generated thunderstorms (i.e., pyrocumulonimbus) and rare fire-tornados.