Native mycorrhizal fungi and whitebark pine restoration
2019-05-14 11:00 - 12:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
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Whitebark pine is an iconic, five-needle, high-elevation pine whose existence is threatened by an exotic rust, mountain pine beetles, fire suppression, and climate change. Its distribution is limited to western North America and populations have declined 90% in recent decades. Whitebark pine is shade intolerant and depends on wildfire to reset the “successional clock”. Regeneration occurs mainly through germination of un-retrieved seeds planted by Clark’s Nutcrackers on burns following wildfires, however natural regeneration does not always follow wildfires or prescribed burning. Thousands of nursery seedlings are being planted across the landscape to compensate for losses, however survival rates are often low. This webinar will examine the potential use of native ectomycorrhizal fungi to improve seedling survival by describing the methods and results of greenhouse and field studies from Montana.

Fire history paradigms in North America: Controversy and consensus
2019-05-15 08:00 - 09:00
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There is wide agreement that prescribed fire is essential and under-utilized for restoring and maintaining natural ecosystem function, sustaining native wildlife populations, and mitigating wildfire hazard. There is less agreement on the history of fire, specifically the degree to which historic fire regimes and the natural communities that depend on them are essentially anthropogenic as opposed lightning-initiated as a function of climate and topography. This presentation provides an over-simplified summary of the two positions and present examples of more comprehensive research approaches that embrace data over dogma.

Rx Fire on Private Lands Workshop 2019
2019-05-17 - 2019-05-18
More information and to register.
A two day workshop May 17-18 at Blodgett Forest Research Station, Georgetown, CA – designed for landowners and managers looking to gain skills in prescribed fire planning and implementation.
Day One:
Local fire history and current fire research
Prescribed fire permitting and legal considerations
Cal Fire’s Vegetation Management Program
Fire weather forecasting and online tools
Air quality and smoke management
Prescribed burn associations
Fire terms and fire behavior
Burn plan development
Burn unit preparation
Tools and equipment
Day Two:
Day two will consist of morning training followed by on the ground prescribed fire demonstration (pending weather and permits). Participants must attend both days to partake in burning. If unable to perform burn for any reason day two will include a tour of recent prescribed fire activity and research at Blodgett Forest Research Station.

Unraveling the complexity of mixed severity fire regimes: New insights from three Rocky Mountain ecosystems
2019-05-21 10:00 - 11:00
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In this webinar, Dr. Cameron Naficy presents findings from a synthesis of multiple projects conducted in 3 unique mixed-severity ecosystems from the Rocky Mountains of the U.S. and Canada. He briefly reviews a new reconstruction method his research group developed that combines extensive dendroecological plot networks and detailed forest structure mapping from high-resolution historical aerial imagery. Using these data, he describes the spatial and temporal patterns of fire frequency and severity for each study ecosystem, the fire-mediated stand dynamics and vegetation conditions that characterized each ecosystem, and some novel resilience mechanisms and ecological surprises associated with the mixed-severity fire regime model. This project demonstrates how historical data can be used to move beyond simple summaries of historical fire regime attributes and landscape condition by using historical data to reveal fundamental fire regime processes, drivers, and ecological outcomes.

Do trends in climate influence the increase in high-severity wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015?
2019-05-22 11:00 - 12:00
Webinar recording.
Over the last 30 years, in woodland and forested ecosystems across the southwestern US, there has been an increasing trend in fire activity. Altered land use practices and more recent changes in precipitation patterns and warmer temperatures are widely thought to contribute to departures in fire regimes toward more frequent and larger fires with more extreme fire behavior that threatens the persistence of the various forested ecosystems. We examined climate-fire relationships in these vegetation types in Arizona and New Mexico using an expanded satellite-derived burn severity dataset that incorporates over one million additional burned hectares analyzed as extended assessments to the MTBS project’s data and five climate variables from PRISM. Climate-fire relationships were identified by comparing annual total area burned, area burned at high/low severity, and percent high severity regionally with fire season (May-August) and water year (October-September) temperature, precipitation, and vapor pressure deficit (VPD) variables. The high severity indicators were also derived for each fire individually to see if climate-fire relationships persist at the scale of the individual fire. Increasing trends toward more arid conditions were observed in all but two of the climate variables. Furthermore, VPD-fire correlations were consistently as strong or more correlated compared to temperature or precipitation indicators alone, both regionally and at the scale of the individual fire. Thus, our results support the use of VPD as a more comprehensive climate metric than temperature or other water-balance measures to predict future fire activity. Managers will have to face the implications of increasing high severity fire as trends in climate toward warmer and drier conditions become an increasingly dominant factor in driving fire regimes towards longer and more intense fire seasons across the Southwest.

Art of range and fire podcasts
2019-05-31 08:00 - 17:00
Access podcasts from Washington State University
The Art of Range podcast provides education through conversation with some of the brightest minds in rangeland management. We interview researchers, ranchers, and resource professionals to bring you extended discussion on topics that are of interest to all. A new episode will be released every two weeks, with several episodes on a general topic area. This podcasting project is funded by a grant from the Western Center for Risk Management and has specific learning objectives which will drive the topics list.
If you are a Certified Professional in Range Management through the SRM, you may claim continuing education units for these episodes (.5 or 1 CEU per episode) by following the instructions at the conclusion of the survey.

Assessing wildland firefighter sleep and fatigue while on fire assignment
2019-06-04 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
With increases in the severity and duration of fire seasons, wildland firefighters are working longer shifts all across the west and are experiencing increased fatigue. In this webinar, Randy Brooks will present results from a survey of more than 400 wildland firefighters and a pilot study assessing sleep, fatigue, and body composition of nine wildland firefighters.
Dr. Brooks and environmental science doctoral student Callie Collins outfitted firefighters with Readibands – motion monitors that keep detailed data on sleep and activity. They report firefighters working in impaired conditions more than 42 percent of one month, and a slight gain in body fat and slight loss of muscle mass over the course of the season. Brooks will discuss the implications of these data and their application to helping make the wildland firefighting profession safer.

Dealing with the triple threat invasion - Cheatgrass, medusahead, and ventenata
2019-06-25 12:00 - 16:00
Webinar recording.
This 4-hour webinar focuses on invasive annual grasses such as cheatgrass (Bromus tectorum), medusahead (Taeniatherum caput-medusae), and ventenata (Ventenata dubia), which are devastating western natural areas and rangeland at a landscape scale. These grass invasions favor further invasions while eliminating desirable vegetation and wildlife habitat. Further impacts include:

A continuous bed of fine fuel associated with an increase in frequency and intensity of rangeland wildfire
Significant reduction or elimination of desirable perennial species
Reduced forage quality for wildlife and livestock
Increased risks for wildlife and pollinator species
Resulting wildfires that are a threat to humans, wildlife, property and infrastructure

Speakers address all of these points, including current management tools for the “triple threat”, highlighting recent research conducted in multiple western states.

Management applications for the Science Framework for conserving and restoring sagebrush ecosystems
2019-06-26 11:00 - 12:00
Webinar recording.
The Science Framework for Conservation and Restoration of the Sagebrush Biome is a two-part volume on managing sagebrush ecosystems in the West that was developed by an extensive interagency team of scientists and managers. An overview of using the concepts of resilience to disturbance (ability to recover) and resistance to invasive annual grasses across three geographic scales (sagebrush biome, ecoregions, and local sites) to prioritize conservation and restoration actions is provided.
The webinar discusses how to use the Science Framework in management planning efforts, focusing on considerations like monitoring and adaptive management, climate adaptation, wildfire and vegetation management, nonnative invasive plant management, application of National Seed Strategy concepts, livestock grazing management, and wild horse and burro considerations.
Michele Crist, BLM National Interagency Fire Center, and Jeanne Chambers, USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, present.

Land use, land cover, and forests in a changing climate: Findings from 4th National Climate Assessment
2019-07-02 09:00 - 10:00
Webinar recording.
The Nation’s authoritative assessment of climate impacts, the Fourth National Climate Assessment Vol. II: Impacts, Risks, and Adaptation in the United States (NCA4 Vol. II) was released in November 2018. This presentation will address the impacts of climate change on land cover and land-use change and forests in the United States. Presenters will discuss the assessment’s findings, including adaptation actions, what we’ve learned since the previous assessment, and what we hope to understand better in the future.

Ecosystems, Agriculture, and Rural Communities in a Changing Climate: Findings from the 4th National Climate Assessment
2019-07-09 09:00 - 10:00
View webinar series recordings from 4th National Climate Assessment.
Shawn Carter, Acting Chief, USGS National Climate Adaptation Center, USGS and
Prasanna Gowda, Research Leader, Grazinglands Research Laboratory, USDA – ARS

Webinar for applicants interested in submitting CFLRP proposals
2019-08-01 07:00 - 08:30
Webinar recording from Aug. 1, 2019.
For those interested in submitting a proposal for Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program funding, there are Upcoming Webinars for Interested Applicants.
The proposal process for new CFLRP projects and extensions for existing ten-year projects will involve two tiers of review. This process applies to new projects as well as projects that have received funding for 10 years and are applying for a one-time extension for the shortest time practicable to complete implementation.
Tier 1 (Pre-Proposal): Applicants provide a brief and high-level description of the proposed CFLRP project or project extension. The Regional Office will evaluate Tier 1 proposals using a common set of criteria and the Regional Forester will decide which projects should proceed with full Tier 2 proposal development.
Tier 2 (Full Proposal): Project extension and new project proposals selected in Tier 1 will proceed with detailed proposal development. These proposals will be reviewed for completeness by the Regional Office, and if they meet all of the CFLRP eligibility criteria, they will be submitted to the CFLRP Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) Committee for evaluation.

Incorporating drought information into wildland fire management applications: Recent research and tool development in CA and NV
2019-08-12 12:00 - 13:00
Webinar recording.
Despite a clear link between drought and wildfire, there is currently a lack of information for stakeholders at the regional and local levels for improved wildfire risk management using drought early warning information. Fire managers and other specialized fire professionals, such as Incident Meteorologists, will increasingly need to effectively use drought information in forecasts of fire behavior at fire incidents, and in long-term planning (i.e., seasonal fire potential outlooks) as the climate continues to warm along with shifts in the timing and duration of fire seasons.
This webinar highlights recent efforts to incorporate drought-wildfire linkages into the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) California-Nevada Drought Early Warning System. Research has shown that drought indices which are both multi-scalar and incorporate evaporative demand are most strongly correlated to fuel moisture. Testing of the Evaporative Demand Drought Index (EDDI) was conducted by Predictive Services in Northern California during the 2018 fire season. Web tools have been developed (and some that are still in development) to access EDDI, other drought indices, and remote sensing data (often with global coverage) that can potentially benefit wildland fire management in Alaska. Focus will be on EDDI tools developed at NOAA’s Physical Science Division and Climate Engine (app.climateengine.org) developed jointly between the Desert Research Institute and University of Idaho.
Presented by Dan McEvoy, Desert Research Institute and Western Regional Climate Center, Reno, NV.

An in-depth look at the national mitigation investment strategy: Aligning mitigation investment for the whole community
2019-08-13 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
This webinar will explore the goals and recommendations presented in the National Mitigation Investment Strategy, which provides a national approach to investing in mitigation and risk management across the United States.
The strategy will:

Provide stakeholders with a foundational understanding of how mitigation investments protect what their communities value
Foster a better understanding of risks in order to support investment decisions, align risk reduction goals with programs and incentives, and simplify access to investment funds
Assure that national stakeholders are participating in mitigation activities, especially decisions to enhance building codes and infrastructure standards and the use of financial products that link to mitigation.

Angela R. Gladwell, Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Risk Management Directorate within the Federal Insurance and Mitigation Administration, Federal Emergency Management Agency presents.

Management responses to mountain pine beetle infestations on National Forestland in the western US
2019-09-04 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
Researchers present results from a National Science Foundation-funded project studying management responses to Mountain Pine Beetle infestations in the western U.S. This research includes case studies of national forests and surrounding communities that were heavily affected by impacts from the beetle in Colorado, Montana, South Dakota, and Washington. The scale, scope, and public visibility of the beetle outbreak resulted in different responses in the four case study areas, including the use of different management approaches and policies. The rapid pace at which the epidemic spread also created challenges around managers’ inability to respond quickly enough. In this presentation, the scientists share findings on differences and similarities between how the different case studies responded to mountain pine beetle impacts and what policies, authorities, and approaches managers used to address beetle issues in their national forests.

Ethical and efficient infrastructure resilience: Battle for better building codes
2019-09-10 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
This webinar explores the social challenges to implementing codes that support a resilient building stock. A public survey by University of Colorado Boulder researchers found that the public is willing to pay for more-resilient buildings, yet several social forces beyond cost pose obstacles to enhancing building-code performance objectives. Many builders, for instance, oppose any code changes that increase construction cost. Engineers might sometimes favor private interests over code changes, which can hinder consensus and support. For legislators, the future benefits of code changes aren’t immediate enough to be politically expedient. In short, even while the technical case for creating resilient building stock is strong, there are factors that must be overcome to implement it. This webinar will use several recent scholarly studies to examine the ethics and economics behind those factors and how we can address challenges head on.
Keith Porter, Research Professor, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering, University of Colorado Boulder presents.

New LANDFIRE products for the southwestern US: Remap 2016
2019-09-26 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
The webinar informs participants about the new LANDFIRE Remap products, what has changed from previous product offerings, and what remains the same or has been updated. It offers application examples taken from the SW region, and will save time to answer questions and listen to comments at the webinar’s conclusion. The presentation is directed those who are or might be considering using LANDFIRE products to inform fire and vegetation management decisions, e.g. researchers, land and project managers, fire and fuel professionals, GIS specialists, scientists, and students.
Kori Blankenship, Fire Ecologist and Jim Smith, Program Lead, of The Nature Conservancy’s LANDFIRE Team, present.

Presentation Recordings from Working Lands for Wildlife Symposium: Joint Wildlife and American Fisheries Society Conference
2019-09-29 - 2019-10-03
The following links are recordings of the presentations made by Working Lands for Wildlife researchers at The Wildlife Society’s 26th Annual Conference. This conference was in Reno, Nevada in October 2019. These videos are courtesy of The Wildlife Society and the USDA-NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife and Conservation Effect Assessment Project.
Cut a tree, grow a grouse: Implications of juniper removal for sage-grouse population growth
Conifers in context: A community-based evaluation of conifer removal for sagebrush and woodland obligates
Sage-grouse: Microhabitat specialist or sagebrush generalist
Ground-dwelling arthropod community response to livestock grazing: Implications for avian conservation
Revolutionizing rangeland monitoring
Motivating large-scale resilience management on working lands: Outcomes for wildlife, water, and wildfire

Sage-Grouse Conservation Partnership 2019 Summit
2019-10-03 - 2019-10-04
The 2019 Summit took place in Burns, OR. To learn more about the Partnership, visit the SageCon webpage.

Moving mitigation forward: The past, present, and future of hazard mitigation assistance
2019-10-08 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
This webinar will take a close look at FEMA’s burgeoning Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) program and what the next steps in the effort will be. BRIC, which was recently funded as part of the Disaster Recovery Reform Act of 2018, focuses on public infrastructure projects that can lower risk and increase community resilience. As a disaster mitigation program, BRIC allows the agency to invest grant money in infrastructure projects before a disaster. To date, FEMA has collected more than 4,000 comments from members of the public, local and regional partners, and representatives of other federal agencies to ensure the program meets the needs of the entire community.
Eric Letvin, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Mitigation, Federal Emergency Management Agency presents.

Southwest LANDFIRE update
2019-10-09 11:00 - 12:00
Webinar recording.
This webinar focuses on LANDFIRE Remap products in LF’s Southwest GeoArea: Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, and sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and California. Presenters Jim Smith and Kori Blankenship of The Nature Conservancy’s LF team review improvements to LF’s newest product offerings and also look at what remains the same as in previous versions. The Southwest is the second of nine Remap regional product releases that are scheduled through mid-2020.

Contributions of fire refugia to resilient ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forests
2019-10-16 11:00
Webinar recording.
This presentation describes recent research on the important roles of fire refugia, highlighting in particular the capacity for refugia to support forest landscape recovery. We sampled tree regeneration in twelve different burns across the West, analyzed relationships between tree regeneration and refugia pattern, and developed a landscape simulation model of forest recovery. We found that regeneration by ponderosa pine and obligate-seeding mixed-conifer tree species assemblages was strongly and positively predicted by refugia proximity and density. Simulation models revealed that for any given proportion of the landscape occupied by refugia, small patches produced greater landscape recovery than large patches. These results highlight the disproportionate importance of small, isolated islands of surviving trees, which may not be detectable with coarse-scale satellite imagery. Implications and applications for land managers and conservation practitioners include strategies for the promotion and maintenance of fire refugia as components of resilient forest landscapes.
Presenter: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University

Predictive services comparison tools; Predicting fire behavior in AK; Smoke tools
2019-10-17 11:00 - 12:00
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The Advanced Fire Environment Learning Unit (AFELU) hosts three speakers to talk about Predictive Services comparison tools, predicting fire behavior in Alaska, and smoke tools. The target audience is anyone interested in fire behavior, fire weather, or fire prediction.

Large-scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change
2019-10-23 11:00 - 12:00
Webinar recording.
Higher tree density, more fuels, and a warmer, drier climate have caused an increase in the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests. There is an urgent need to restore forests across the western United States. To address this need, the U.S. Forest Service began the Four Forest Restoration Initiative (4FRI) to restore four national forests in Arizona. The objective of this study was to evaluate how restoration of ~400,000 ha under the 4FRI program and projected climate change would influence carbon dynamics and wildfire severity from 2010 to 2099. We found that the fast‐4FRI scenario showed early decreases in ecosystem carbon due to initial thinning/prescribed fire treatments, but total ecosystem carbon increased by 9–18% over no harvest by the end of the simulation. This increased carbon storage by 6.3–12.7 million metric tons, depending on the climate model, equating to removal of carbon emissions from 55,000 to 110,000 passenger vehicles per year until the end of the century. Nearly half of the additional carbon was stored in more stable soil pools. However, climate models with the largest predicted temperature increases showed declines by late century in ecosystem carbon despite restoration. Our study uses data from a real‐world, large‐scale restoration project and indicates that restoration is likely to stabilize carbon and the benefits are greater when the pace of restoration is faster.
Presenter: Dr McCauley

Answering questions about the appropriateness of woody vegetation treatments
2019-10-29 11:00 - 12:00
Webinar recording and additional Q and A.
Federal and state agencies across Utah and the Great Basin have been actively treating pinyon and juniper woodlands to improve wildlife habitat, reduce fuel loads, and achieve watershed objectives. Increasingly these activities have been questioned by stakeholder groups and citizens who are concerned about the unintended consequences of such treatments. This webinar addresses some of the recent criticisms of pinyon-juniper treatment, sharing results of research on woody vegetation removal as well as identifying questions that still need to be answered through research and monitoring.
Speakers: Eric Thacker, Mark Brunson

LANDFIRE Remap products in California
2019-11-04 12:00 - 13:00
Webinar recording.
This webinar focuses on LANDFIRE Remap products in the Southwest U.S., with specific emphasis on California applications. Presenters Jim Smith and Kori Blankenship will review improvements to LF’s newest product offering and look at what remains the same as previous versions. LF Remap products are being released through 2019-2020, as determined by LF GeoArea.

Disaster spending and mitigation: A state-by-state story
2019-11-12 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
This webinar will provide an overview of The Pew Charitable Trust’s recent work on natural disaster spending. Remarks will focus on how all levels of government—and states in particular—can manage rising disaster costs by improving how they track spending and by investing in mitigation. Research by Pew has found that disaster assistance is spread across many federal and state agencies and that comprehensive data, especially on what states spend, is missing. Better data could allow both federal and state policymakers to make more strategic decisions about how they spend on disasters, including mitigation measures that reduce the impact of future events—which a recent Pew analysis found saves money in every state and across disaster types.
Colin Foard, Associate Manager, Fiscal Federalism, The Pew Charitable Trusts, presents.

Assessment of community wildfire protection plans in AZ and the western US
2019-11-13 11:00 - 12:00
Webinar recording.
One mechanism with which communities-at-risk from wildfire have addressed planning and adaptation to wildfire are Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), which were created as part of the Healthy Forest Restoration Act in 2003. CWPPs are required to include measures to reduce hazardous fuels, reduce structural ignitability, and increase collaboration and outreach. Communities across the Western U.S. have used a wide range of approaches for developing CWPPs with varying outcomes. This webinar will provide results from a study that assessed CWPPs in Arizona and other western states. It will include results from an assessment of CWPP effectiveness in Arizona, results from a survey of CWPP program strategies in other western states, as well as lessons learned and recommendations for effective CWPP development, implementation, and management.

Right Seed in the Right Place at the Right Time: Tools for Sustainable Restoration Webinar Series 2015-16
2020-01-01
The Great Basin Native Plant Project, Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, BLM Plant Conservation Program, the US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, and the Society for Ecological Restoration Great Basin Chapter co-hosted this webinar series on seeding and restoration in 2015 and 2016. The series provides an opportunity to highlight and discuss current research, case-studies, and tools that help inform applied restoration opportunities throughout the Great Basin.
Seed Zones –
Seed zones: Development and use, procurement and deployment, and provisional zones for native plants, presented by Brad St. Clair, Research Geneticist, USFS Pacific Northwest Research Station, Vicky Erikson, Geneticist, USFS Pacific Northwest Region, and Andy Bower, Geneticist, USFS Olympic National Forest
Seed Collection, Seed Increase, and Purchasing Tools –
Wildland seed collection and extraction, presented by Kayla Herriman and Sarah Garvin, USFS Region 6 Bend Seed Extractory, OR
Procurement and application of native plant material in the BLM, presented by Paul Krabacher, BLM
Restoration Equipment and Seeding Strategies –
Post-fire seeding methods for establishing diverse native communities in the Great Basin, presented by Jeff Ott, Research Geneticist and Steve Monsen, Botanist with the USFS- RMRS
Vegetation restoration in response to pinyon and juniper control treatments, presented by Bruce Roundy, Plant Ecologist at Brigham Young University
Assisted succession – Context and tools, presented by Jerry Benson, President, BFI Native Seeds
Restoration of biological soil crusts in the Great Basin, presented by Jayne Belnap, Research Ecologist, USGS
Evaluating strategies for increasing native plant diversity in crested wheatgrass seedings, presented by Kent McAdoo, Rangeland Resources Specialist, University of Nevada Cooperative Extension
Increasing Diversity in Seed Mixes –
Increasing integration of pollinator-friendly forbs in wildland restoration, presented by Byron Love, Ph.D. candidate at Utah State University and technician with the USDA ARS Pollinating Insects Research Unit
The NRCS’s role in developing native plant material for federal land, presented by Derek Tilley, Agronomist and Manager, USDA NRCS Aberdeen Plant Materials Center, ID
Using field studies to find the most promising seed sources for restoration, presented by Beth Leger, Associate Professor of Plant Ecology, University of Nevada, Reno
Weather Variability and Proactive Planning for Restoration –
Weather variability and forecasting tools for short and long term restoration planning, presented by Stuart Hardegree, Plant Physiologist, USDA ARS Northwest Watershed Research Center, Boise, ID
Climate, weather, and sagebrush seed sources: Experimental insights on challenges and opportunities, presented by Matt Germino, Research Ecologist, USGS Snake River Field Station
Seed zones and climate change, presented by Francis Kilkenny, Research Biologist, USFS-RMRS
Sagebrush Seedlings and Plantings –
Sagebrush seed processing and production for restoration in the Great Basin, presented by Clark Fleege, Nursery Manager, USFS Lucky Peak Nursery
An introduction to the Target Plant Concept, presented by Anthony Davis, Director, Center for Forest Nursery and Seedling Research, University of Idaho and Jeremy Pinto, Research Plant Physiologist, USFS RMRS
Southwest Idaho native seed collection, use, and plant material development, presented by Ben Dyer, Fire Ecologist, Upper Snake Field Office BLM, and Danelle Nance, Natural Resource Specialist, Shoshone Field Office BLM
Selecting and Maintaining Genetic Diversity –
Selection of genetically appropriate plant materials for increase, presented by Holly Prendeville, Research Geneticist, USFS PNW
Producing native plant materials for restoration: 10 rules to collect and maintain genetic diversity, presented by Andrea Kramer, Conservation Scientist, Chicago Botanic Garden
Verification of sagebrush subspecies from seed samples and finding the right place for successful restoration, presented by Bryce Richardson, Research Geneticist, USFS RMRS
The incredible diversity of sagebrush chemistry and its potential value in restoration, presented by Justin Runyon, Research Entomologist, USFS RMRS
Pollinators and Insect Predators –
Pollinator-friendly forbs to seed for the sagebrush-steppe, presented by Jim Cane, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research Unit, Utah State University
Restoring shrub-steppe after wildfire: Shrub planting as a viable tool in rehabilitation, presented by Heidi Newsome, Wildlife Biologist, USFWS, Hanford Reach National Monument
Seed Production, Purchase, and Contracting –
Insects affecting native seed production, presented by Bob Hammon, Entomology/Agronomy Extension Agent, Tri River Extension Area
Wildland seed collection: Responding to a changing market, presented by Ed Kleiner, Comstock Seed, Gardnerville, NV
Using native plants in fuel breaks, presented by Mark Williams, BLM, Salt Lake City, UT
Sagebrush Habitat Types and Restoration/Resistance & Resilience –
Sage-grouse forb preference by 12 plant categories, presented by Roger Rosentreter, BLM Idaho Retired State Botanist
Engaging communities in sagebrush restoration: Idaho Fish and Game Southwest Region Volunteer Program, presented by Michael Young, Idaho Fish and Game’s Southwest Region Volunteer Program
Sage-grouse habitat conservation through prisons, presented by Stacy Moore, Ecological Education Program, Institute for Applied Ecology

Winter Isn’t Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene.
2020-01-09 12:00 - 13:00
Webinar recording.
Humanity’s fire practices are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Our shift from burning living landscapes to burning lithic ones is affecting all aspects of Earth. Presenter is Stephen Pyne.
