Events
Fire and wildlife
Webinar registration. The good, bad, and ugly of fire and wildlife - roasty toasty critters or promoting sustainable habitat for expanding and healthy wildlife populations? Let’s discuss the pros and cons of fire on wildlife. How is the lack of fire at the necessary scale, frequency, intensity/severity, and seasonality one of the greatest threats to…
Forest-assisted migration in the context of climate change adaptation: Examples from the eastern US
Webinar registration. Presenter: Brian Palik Description: There is increasing momentum to implement conservation and management approaches that adapt forests to climate change so as to sustain ecosystem functions. These range from actions designed to increase the resistance of current composition and structure to negative impacts to those designed to transition forests to substantially different characteristics.…
Leveraging LANDFIRE to understand ecological conditions across National Forests and Grasslands
Webinar recording. US Forest Service Ecologist, Sarah M. Anderson explains the Terrestrial Condition Assessment and how LANDFIRE products have informed the TCA. Sarah fields questions ranging from using the TCA to monitor ecological conditions, wildfire severity/fire deficits, KPIs in the USFS, and what it might take to move the needle on forest restoration.
An assessment of native seed needs and their capacity for their supply
Webinar recording. An Assessment of Native Seed Needs and the Capacity for Their Supply: Final Report will be released on Thursday, January 26, 2023. The report was authored by a committee appointed by the National Academies of Science, Medicine, and Engineering and will be available at 8 am Pacific/9 am Mtn on the National Academies…
Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) Conference and Tradeshow
Conference website. The Wildfire Resilient Structures (WiReS) conference addresses the WUI fire risk problems inherent to the built environment to support resilient and equitable communities. With a shared goal of implementation through education, the WiReS conference will make local, regional, and state impact through the presentation and promotion of applied science, knowledge, and technology advancements…
Historical context of Canada wildfire and climate change
Webinar registration.
Society for Range Management 2023 Meeting
Visit conference website. This year's annual conference will be in Boise, ID.
Fire history and ecology
Webinar recordings of the Forest Service's Research and Development SCIENCEx FIRE week. Fire History and Ecology Introduction to SCIENCEx Fire Week | Jens Stevens Indigenous Fire Stewardship and Cultural Burning | Frank Lake Fire Exclusion and Western Forest Change | Eric Knapp A History of Fire in the Eastern US: How Humans Modified Fire Regimes…
Fire weather and smoke
Webinar recording. The second webinar of the Forest Service's Research and Development SCIENCEx FIRE week. Fire Weather and Smoke Fire Weather Forecasting | Brian Potter New Technology for Monitoring Smoke Impacts | Shawn Urbanski Smoke Plume Dynamics | Yong Liu
Imagining and designing coherent, adaptation-oriented laws about wildfire
Webinar recording. Since 2010, Australian national and state governments have commissioned at least 101 post-emergency inquiries and reviews, each of which makes recommendations to improve the way we prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from wildfires. Many of these reviews recommend specific changes to laws and policies, for example, to simplify permitting processes for…