Events
Home hardening Q&A
Webinar recording. Living With Fire will host a question-and-answer workshop with Steve Quarles, who is both University of California Cooperative Extension Advisor Emeritus and the retired Chief Scientist for Wildfire…
What does it mean to be a good ally? Actions towards allyship
Webinar recording. Presenter: Ellen Bledsoe, PhD (she/her), Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Regina Description: Ellen will introduce some general terminology about inclusivity, privilege, allies, and allyship; explore the importance of coupling…
August drought and climate outlook and wildfire spotlight
Webinar recording. According to the August 10, 2021 U.S. Drought Monitor, 94% of the Pacific Northwest Drought Early Warning System (DEWS) is in drought. Additionally, drought conditions are rapidly intensifying.…
Land use planning as a strategy for fire adapted communities
Webinar recording. Description: As communities across the U.S. face increasing threats from wildfire, there is also a growing interest in land use planning as a strategy to reduce risk and…
Fire weather/Fire danger conditions which led to the Historic Peshtigo Wildfire of 1871
Webinar recording. Conflagrations like the 1871 Peshtigo have reemerged as important threats across North America and around the world. Understanding the factors and the phenomena that produced the fire environment…
Reseeding and flood after wildfire
Webinar recording. Forester Anna Higgins with the Nevada Division of Forestry, Ecologist Mark Freese with the Nevada Department of Wildlife, and Project Manager Danae Olson with the U.S. Army Corps…
Mitigation Best Practices Training
Training website. This national level training from Coalitions & Collaboratives, Inc. and the USDA Forest Service is designed for current or future mitigation specialists, wildfire program leads, and others who…
Fire in the Earth system: EarthTalk Series with Penn State
Fires burn in all terrestrial ecosystems on the globe, and wildfires are getting larger, more destructive and deadly. Both humans and climate are contributing to this trend. The Fall 2021…
Can landscape fuel treatments enhance both protection and resource management objective?
Webinar registration. Land management agencies in the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture can potentially accomplish ecological resource management objectives using unplanned wildfires, but only if such fires do not…
The buildup and the blowup
Webinar recording. Conflagrations like the 1871 Peshtigo have reemerged as important threats across North America and around the world. Understanding the factors and the phenomena that produced the fire environment of that day is possible because of weather observations collected and recorded at the time and studies of extreme fire behavior that continue to this…