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SUMMARY:Smoke ready Oregon: Preparing for wildfire smoke
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nSmoke from wildfires is becoming a reality that individuals and communities face each fire season. Want to learn how you can protect yourself and those you care about from wildfire smoke? In this webinar\, we talk about smoke impacts to human health\, how to access important air quality information and how to differentiate between the levels of air quality. We also cover things you can do right now to prepare.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/smoke-ready-oregon-preparing-for-wildfire-smoke/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T100000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220411T182235Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220505T154842Z
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SUMMARY:Invasive annual grasses management
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nInvasive annual grasses pose ecological and economic challenges for invasive species managers and agricultural producers across the West. On this Working Lands\, Working Communities Initiative webinar\, speakers will examine management tools and strategies to effectively manage cheatgrass\, medusahead\, and ventenata.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/invasive-annual-grasses-management/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T130000
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CREATED:20220411T181857Z
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SUMMARY:Fire and humans in resilient ecosystems of the American SW
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nDescription: In the southwestern US humans and ecosystems share a history of fire. Here\, contemporary ecological patterns and processes that are thought to be natural may be highly influenced by past human land use legacies\, at millennial time scales. The Jemez Mountains of central New Mexico provide a landscape laboratory rich in archaeological\, ethnographic\, and ecological data sets\, within which to study the reciprocal\, long-term interactions of humans and fire. Evidence from tree-rings\, fire scars\, and charcoal sediments suggests that prior to the 20th century\, southwestern pine forests sustained frequent\, low-severity surface fires. During a period of dense occupation in the 13th and 14th centuries\, land and resource use may have significantly influenced forest structure\, fuel properties\, ignitions\, and landscape fire dynamics. We developed complex spatial models\, informed by rich archaeological\, ethnographic\, and dendroarchaeological data sets\, to examine how plausible scenarios of human activities influenced forests and fire regimes ca. 1200-1900 CE. We found that prehistoric populations influenced forest and fire patterns at broad spatial scales\, with feedbacks that maintained ecological resilience. Our results highlight the complexity and extent of long-term human-environment interactions and can be used as a comparative framework within which to evaluate the significance of contemporary and predicted anthropogenic impacts on landscapes and ecosystems. \nPresenter: Rachel Loehman is a landscape and fire ecologist with the US Geological Survey. Her research focuses on the role of natural and anthropogenic disturbances in shaping ecological patterns and processes. Her current research projects include developing strategies for enhancing ecosystem and forest resilience to changing climate and disturbance regimes (western U.S.) and monitoring and modeling fire impacts to archaeological resources (southwestern U.S.).
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/fire-and-humans-in-resilient-ecosystems-of-the-american-sw/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220420T100000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220411T181449Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T174102Z
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SUMMARY:Effective communication about wildfire management:  Observations from 20 years of fire social science research
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nPresenter: Sarah McCaffrey \nDescription: Fire management in the United States is currently facing numerous challenges. While many of these challenges involve questions about how to increase pace and scale of fuels treatments and adapt to longer\, sometimes year-round\, fire seasons and more frequent extreme fires\, there is also a need to adapt wildfire communication efforts to changing fire management needs and practices. This presentation will discuss insights from two decades of fire social science research about a range of topics to consider in improving wildfire communication including issues with conflation of language (prevention is not mitigation)\, when more rather than less complex explanations may be merited\, and the need to account for how fire fits in everyday lives. The presentation will draw from general Communication\, Natural Hazards\, and Risk Communication theory\, as well as specific fire social science research findings\, about topics and approaches that are more or less likely to resonate with the public.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/effective-communication-about-wildfire-management-observations-from-20-years-of-fire-social-science-research/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220419T120000
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CREATED:20220411T181011Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220817T154238Z
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SUMMARY:Collective action for wildfire risk reduction across land ownerships in the West
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nOver the past decade\, government policies and programs to incentivize “all-lands approaches” to reducing wildfire risk have emerged that call for collective action among diverse public\, private\, and Tribal landowners who share fire-prone landscapes. This presentation draws on research from Oregon and California to offer insights into what collective action looks like\, when it is desirable\, and how to promote it to increase the resilience of fire-prone forests.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/collective-action-for-wildfire-risk-reduction-across-land-ownerships-in-the-west/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220413T080000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220328T173718Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T212819Z
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SUMMARY:Farming native seed for the future: Considering evolutionary potential and ecological function
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nDescription: Agricultural seed production is needed to meet ambitious restoration goals\, which will require more seeds than can be harvested from wild populations. However\, there may be direct conflicts between traits that are favorable in conventional agriculture and those that are adaptive in restoration settings\, which could have long-lasting impacts on restored communities. Here\, we review some of these evolutionary and ecological conflicts and suggest research directions needed to meld the needs of agriculturalists and restoration practitioners. Partnerships between ecologists\, engineers\, breeders\, and growers are essential to develop best practices for providing seeds for successful native species restoration. \nPresenters:\nAlison Agneray has ten years of experience executing long-range research and monitoring programs across the Western United States. She is currently a PhD candidate working with Dr. Beth Leger at the University of Nevada Reno to optimize seed mixes used to restore degraded habitats in North America’s Great Basin Desert. \nOwen Baughman is a Restoration Scientist with The Nature Conservancy of Oregon\, USA\, and has worked to understand\, test\, and/or demonstrate new and innovative approaches to native plant restoration in North America’s sagebrush steppe. He earned an MS in Plant Ecology in 2014 from the University of Nevada Reno\, and a BS in Ecology and Conservation Biology in 2010 from the University of Idaho.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/farming-native-seed-for-the-future-considering-evolutionary-potential-and-ecological-function/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220412
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220414
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SUMMARY:Investing in Forest Infrastructure Virtual Conference
DESCRIPTION:Conference recordings. \nThe Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership and Montana Forest Collaboration Network will cohost the 2022 virtual conference Investing in Forest Infrastructure. The Infrastructure Investments and Jobs Act was signed into law on November 15\, 2021. Title VIII of the Act includes appropriations for legacy roads and trails\, wildfire risk reduction\, ecosystem restoration\, and Joint Chiefs Landscape Restoration Partnership. The conference explores priorities stipulated by Congress\, the role of collaborative groups in implementation\, and expectations for the outcomes of the investments.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/investing-in-forest-infrastructure-virtual-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220406T100000
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CREATED:20220209T212616Z
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SUMMARY:Accounting for the benefits of public lands
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nPresented by: Travis Warziniack \nThough National Forests are required to address ecosystem services and human benefits in planning and management decisions\, most have limited capacity to meet those requirements. New tools are helping forests more easily identify impacts to ecosystem services and communicate their role in providing benefits to stakeholders. Moving toward nationally consistent methods will allow forests to more easily assess their ecosystem services\, with the flexibility of adding local knowledge when needed.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/accounting-for-the-benefits-of-public-lands/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220330T110000
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CREATED:20220209T204943Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T192913Z
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SUMMARY:Recent megafires provide a tipping point for desertification of conifer ecosystems
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nPresented by: Dan Neary \nWildfires can produce significant hydrological and ecological impacts on forest\, woodland\, and grassland ecosystems depending on fire size\, severity\, duration\, timing\, fuel loads\, and weather conditions. In the past several decades\, wildfire conditions have changed from previous  ones in the 20th Century. Wildfires are now burning larger areas in hotter\, windier\, and drier weather. In addition\, the timeframe for these fires has expanded by four months in some regions to 12 months in fire-prone states like California. These large fires\, known as megafires (greater than 40\,000 acres) are burning more wildland areas every year. Some reach the giga-fire classification (405\,000+ acres) with increasing frequency. These trends are contributing to increased desertification of forest lands. This presentation examines the role of these large fires in producing desertification of wildland ecosystems.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/recent-megafires-provide-a-tipping-point-for-desertification-of-conifer-ecosystems/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220329T120000
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CREATED:20220209T212252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T190813Z
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SUMMARY:Practical applications of soil moisture information
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording.\n\nThe National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the National Weather Service (NWS) are pleased to host two webinars on soil moisture data and applications. The webinars are intended to help NWS operational forecasters\, and other weather and climate service providers\, to better understand soil moisture monitoring and its practical applications. This second webinar in the series will include the following presentations on the use of soil moisture to inform drought monitoring and decision making: \n“Using Soil Moisture to Develop the U.S. Drought Monitor Map” – Richard Heim NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information\n “How Soil Moisture Informs the U.S. Drought Outlooks” – Brad Pugh\, NOAA Climate Prediction Center \n“Using Soil Moisture for State-Level Drought Monitoring” – Laura Edwards\, South Dakota State Climatologist
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/practical-applications-of-soil-moisture-information/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220323T170000
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CREATED:20220304T165636Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220415T212440Z
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SUMMARY:6th Annual Nevada Native Seed Forum
DESCRIPTION:Forum presentations. \nSessions include a variety of native seed topics including permits\, collection\, production\, testing\, certification\, storage\, marketing and restoration.  \n“The goal of the forum was to bring growers and stakeholders together to discuss cultivation and native seed availability to help facilitate the success and expansion of native seed suppliers in Nevada\,” said Meghan Brown\, deputy administrator for the Division of Plant Health and Compliance at the Nevada Department of Agriculture\, a member of the NNSP. \nNative seeds refer to plant seeds native to Nevada landscapes\, cultivated in this climate. These seeds can acclimate to Nevada’s unique environment\, increasing the plant’s chances of survival. The NDA supports the industry by providing wildland seed certification services and ensuring Nevada native seeds maintain purity for use in land restoration efforts. These rehabilitation projects are completed by land management agencies or landowners in response to devastating land impacts from wildfires\, invasive species\, land development\, among other activities that result in surface disturbance. Restoration efforts are critical to protecting wildlife habitat\, supporting diverse land use\, and mitigating future wildfire impacts. \n“NNSP has worked to increase availability of native grown seed for restoration projects\,” said Brown. “We’re excited to announce new resources to better connect growers with native seeds and assistance.” \n 
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/6th-annual-nevada-native-seed-forum/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220321T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220325T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220121T182728Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T171045Z
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SUMMARY:Science X Water webinar series
DESCRIPTION:Webinar join links and recordings. \nThe SCIENCE X webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across the country.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/science-x-water-webinar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220315T110000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220328T175550Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T175647Z
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SUMMARY:Influence of grazing and weather on sagebrush birds
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nDescription: Effects of juniper encroachment and removal on multiple wildlife species in the Steens Mountains area and quantifying effects of grazing on sagebrush ecosystems and associated wildlife. \nPresenter: Vanessa Schroeder is a faculty research assistant at Eastern Oregon Agricultural Research Center-Burns\, which is in the heart of Oregons’s sagebrush country. She holds a master’s degree in Wildlife Science from OSU.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/influence-of-grazing-and-weather-on-sagebrush-birds/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220309T100000
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CREATED:20220209T204520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T170942Z
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SUMMARY:OBIWAN app: Estimating property-level carbon storage using NASA's GEDI Lidar
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nPresented by: Sean Healey and Zhiqiang Yang \nForest managers increasingly require statistically grounded estimates of forest carbon storage at the resolution of individual ownerships (a few thousand acres). Carbon offset markets and general recognition of climate change mitigation as an ecosystem service provide incentive for monitoring carbon\, but stand exams are costly\, and varying methods may reduce comparability across ownerships. NASA’s GEDI mission provides high-quality lidar data across the country\, and the Forest Service’s OBIWAN tool (Online Biomass Inference using Waveforms and iNventory) allows owners to generate and document GEDI-based estimates of mean carbon storage for their own land.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/obiwan-app-estimating-property-level-carbon-storage-using-nasas-gedi-lidar/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220309
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220312
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220113T182002Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T170757Z
UID:76283-1646784000-1647043199@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:NASA System-Wide Safety Wildland Firefighting Operations Virtual Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Workshop recordings. \nThe aim of this workshop is to better understand how NASA and community expertise can be leveraged in the development of systems that monitor\, assess\, mitigate\, and assure safety concerns of dynamic operations in challenging work environments. The primary goals are to: \n\nIdentify and prioritize top safety-oriented risks\, gaps in capabilities\, and emerging technologies to enhance wildland firefighting for both near-term and mid-term operational concepts\nEngage the stakeholder community in defining emergent safety-oriented roles\, responsibilities\, and procedures for agents undergoing increasingly complex wildland firefighting operations in information-rich but uncertain environments
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/nasa-system-wide-safety-wildland-firefighting-operations-virtual-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220308T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220210T195948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241209T182305Z
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SUMMARY:Native Seed in Restoration Virtual Workshop- Recordings Available
DESCRIPTION:Workshop recordings. \nDescription: The workshop aims to bring together experts working in seed-based restoration around the world to discuss key elements of the native seed supply chain. This event is organized in conjunction with INSR\, BLM\, SER\, TNC\, and with assistance from the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange. \nThis workshop has been approved for continuing education credits through the Society for Ecological Restoration. \nWorkshop agenda
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/native-seed-in-restoration-virtual-workshop/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T100000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220209T204150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T170554Z
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SUMMARY:Modern approach to quantifying ungulate carrying capacity
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nPresented by: Matt Reeves \nEstimating the number of animals that can be sustainably supported depends on numerous factors such as forage quantities\, terrain\, distance from water\, and the type of vegetation being considered. Historically most approaches to conducting capacity estimates were limited by a paucity of spatially explicit data describing these factors. However\, recent advances in remotely sensed data products and modelling ideas have improved our ability to refine these estimates and do it consistently across all lands which has significant implications for future land management plans such as Allotment Management Plans and Annual Operating Instructions (AOI) for federally managed grazing allotments. In this presentation we demonstrate application of our modernized modelling approach and present results of our recent assessment of wild horse and burro capacity in California.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/modern-approach-to-quantifying-ungulate-carrying-capacity/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220121T183655Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T170044Z
UID:76751-1646121600-1646222400@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Forest Health in Oregon 2022: State of the State
DESCRIPTION:Virtual conference proceedings. \nThe Forest Health in Oregon: State of the State conference occurs every-other-year and is meant to summarize forest health issues in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest. The focus is on major forest insect and pathogen activity and emerging issues\, as well as weather phenomena such as drought and heat waves\, and of course fire. We seek to inform foresters\, forest industry\, agency forest managers\, small woodland owners\, forestry and natural resources extension volunteers and agents\, and anyone interested in forest health in Oregon\, about these important issues that influence forest health. In 2022 we are also focused on tree decline issues regarding western redcedar\, big leaf maple\, and Douglas-fir.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/forest-health-in-oregon-2022-state-of-the-state/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220223T100000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220209T202205Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T201647Z
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SUMMARY:Aviation Use Summary (AUS): Analytics to inform decisions and manage wildfire risk
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nPresented by: Crystal Stonesifer \nAircraft are important fire management tools\, but their use can bring substantial costs and associated risks. We developed the Aviation Use Summary (AUS)\, which is a decision support framework to help track the location\, timing\, and amount of aircraft use in fire suppression; this information is presented in a way that helps guide decision makers through a structured risk assessment and a repeatable check-in process. Extensive use in large fire support has demonstrated the effectiveness of the framework\, related limitations\, and potential for future improvements and broad adoption in fire management. \n 
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/aviation-use-summary-aus-analytics-to-inform-decisions-and-manage-wildfire-risk/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T120000
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CREATED:20220209T190100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220411T190330Z
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SUMMARY:Soil moisture 101: What it means\, how it's measured
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nThe National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) and the National Weather Service (NWS) are pleased to host two webinars on soil moisture data and applications. The webinars are intended to help NWS operational forecasters\, and other weather and climate service providers\, to better understand soil moisture monitoring and its practical applications. \nThis first webinar will provide an overview of soil moisture monitoring and interpretation. It will include a series of brief recorded presentations\, followed by live Q&A with the presenters: \n“Overview of Soil Moisture Monitoring” – Mike Cosh\, USDA Agricultural Research Service\n“In situ Soil Moisture Data and Products” – Chris Fiebrich\, Oklahoma Mesonet\n“Satellite-based Remote Sensing of Soil Moisture” – John Bolten\, NASA Goddard\n“Model-output Soil Moisture Data and Products” – Marina Skumanich\, NIDIS
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/soil-moisture-101-what-it-means-how-its-measured/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220216T110000
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CREATED:20220209T185758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T171609Z
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SUMMARY:Exploring the Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS)
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nFTDSS is becoming a go-to tool for fuels planning across interagency partners. With its all-access web-based approach\, IFTDSS makes fuels management planning accessible to fire practitioners at all levels. From viewing project areas on a user-friendly map interface to completing a full blown Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment\, IFTDSS has something for everyone. IFTDSS contains fire behavior models\, reference data sets\, mapping tools\, comparison workflows\, and summary reports useful for prescribed fire planning\, treatment prioritization\, and NEPA analysis and reports. With upwards of 2800 user accounts\, IFTDSS is being used across all federal agencies as well as state and private partners\, NGOs\, and Universities. This webinar will provide an overview of what the application can do as well as some examples of how it is being used in the field.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/exploring-the-interagency-fuel-treatment-decision-support-system-iftdss/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220215T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220209T185406Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T171451Z
UID:77116-1644922800-1644926400@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Science and management of wildfire\, fish\, and water resources in the western US
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \n\n\nWildfire has increased 20-fold in the last 30 years in the Western U.S.\, partly due to climate change and partly due to forest and fire management practices. At the same time\, many water resources are drying up. And fish populations throughout the western US are struggling due to water diversions\, instream barriers\, invasive species\, and dwindling flows. This talk will integrate across these three big\, converging problems\, reframing the role of wildfire in western ecosystems\, discussing how wildfire\, fish\, and water resource problems are interrelated\, and proposing solutions that match the scale of the problem.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/science-management-of-wildfire-fish-and-water-resources-in-the-western-us/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220209T140000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220209T190715Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T171236Z
UID:77132-1644411600-1644415200@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Invasion\, fire\, and the future of NW wildlands: Ventenata dubia in the Blue Mtns Ecoregion
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nIn this deep dive webinar\, Dr. Becky Kerns and collaborating scientists will present and synthesize results from a Joint Fire Science funded project aimed at understanding the current and future Ventenata dubia (ventenata) invasion in the Blue Mountains Ecoregion. Wildfires in 2014 and 2015 in the ecoregion reportedly spread in an unusual fashion owing to this invasive annual grass. Concern was raised that ventenata might be a “game-changer” for wildfire. Results from our studies show that ventenata has ecosystem transformation potential and influences landscape-scale fire across the ecoregion. In this webinar we report these findings and the management implications\, as well as place our results in the context of other plant invasion research. The webinar includes 90 minutes of scientific presentations with short Q&A\, and ends with a 30-minute wrap up and panel discussion. Talks will adhere to the following agenda to allow attendees to join and leave the meeting for specific talks\, if desired. \n 
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/invasion-fire-and-the-future-of-nw-wildlands-ventenata-dubia-in-the-blue-mtns-ecoregion/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220206
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220211
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
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UID:64133-1644105600-1644537599@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:2022 Society for Range Management (SRM)'s 75th Annual Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Meeting website. \nJoin us in the heart of New Mexico for the 75th Annual SRM Meeting. The beautiful high desert rangelands\, diverse cultures\, authentic art\, and painted skies of Albuquerque will make for a great meeting.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/2022-society-for-range-management-srms-75th-annual-meeting/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220131T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220131T133000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220121T182410Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220628T153011Z
UID:76744-1643630400-1643635800@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Bipartisan Infrastructure Bill: What does it mean for forest collaboratives?
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nThis webinar will include presentations and interactive breakout sessions to explore implications and opportunities for forest collaboratives: \nLarry Chambers\, Change Management and Communication Lead\, U.S. Forest Service \nJake Donnay\, Director\, Legislative Affairs\, U.S. Forest Service \nSteve Moyer\, Vice President of Government Affairs\, Trout Unlimited \nBill Imbergamo\, Executive Director\, Federal Forest Resource Coalition
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/bipartisan-infrastructure-bill-what-does-it-mean-for-forest-collaboratives/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220124T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220121T181535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220209T183920Z
UID:76736-1643022000-1643025600@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:CA-NV Winter Status Update Webinar (Jan 2022)
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nAccording to the January 18 U.S. Drought Monitor\, 99.6% of CA/NV is in drought\, with 9.8% in Extreme (D3) or Exceptional (D4) Drought. The area in D3/D4 is down from 69.9% just one month ago\, reflecting the barrage of storms that have brought rain and snow to the region since mid-fall. These storms have improved conditions but have not ended the drought. The current drought developed over many months to years and left huge water deficits.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/ca-nv-winter-status-update-webinar-jan-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220121T170000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220121T183140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T183140Z
UID:76749-1642752000-1642784400@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Exploring innovation in a public land grazing system (7:17)
DESCRIPTION:View short video. \nIn small communities like Plush\, Oregon\, where “The Need for Flexibility: Exploring Innovation in a Public Land Grazing System” was filmed\, agriculture is a major economic contributor. Benefits extend far beyond the actual animal unit months provided to the producer. The creation of local jobs\, community investments\, and the stability provided by a balanced and documented approach to resource management all help foster resiliency in communities across the West. The Bureau of Land Management’s Outcome-based Grazing program offers a more collaborative approach between the BLM and its partners within the livestock grazing community when issuing grazing authorizations permits. The program allows for necessary\, timely grazing adjustments that benefit the health of the rangeland for wildlife as well as its availability of forage for livestock.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/exploring-innovation-in-a-public-land-grazing-system-717/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220120T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220120T130000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20220110T225945Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220328T172010Z
UID:75959-1642680000-1642683600@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Developing divergent\, plausible\, and relevant climate futures for near- and long-term resource planning
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nIt seems the effects of climate change were all too clear in 2021. Yet\, we know more change is expected. When trying to adapt to a changing climate\, with all the inherent uncertainties about how the future may play out\, resource managers often turn to scenario planning as a tool. Managers use scenario planning to explore plausible ways the climate may change\, allowing them to work with climate change uncertainty rather than being paralyzed by it. Once identified\, scenarios of the future are used to develop proactive measures to prepare for and adapt to scenarios of change. \nA key part of scenario planning is generating a list of potential future climates we may deal with. These ‘climate futures’ serve as the foundation of each scenario explored in the planning process. For example\, managers consider how they would respond to a warm\, wet versus a hot\, dry future. This webinar will describe and compare three approaches to generate the climate futures that feed into the scenario planning process. In doing so\, this work identifies an approach to developing climate futures that captures a broad range of climate conditions (a key ingredient to developing scenarios) across both near and long-term planning horizons.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/developing-divergent-plausible-and-relevant-climate-futures-for-near-and-long-term-resource-planning/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T120000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20211221T165526Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220404T191824Z
UID:73671-1642590000-1642593600@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern US
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nThe increasing incidence of large wildfires with extensive stand-replacing effects across the southwestern United States is altering the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests. While management of fire-excluded forests continues to be a priority for land managers\, an increasing fraction of western conifer forests have recently burned. Many of these burned landscapes contain complex mosaics of surviving forest and severely-burned patches without surviving or regenerating conifer trees. In such complex landscapes\, postfire management decisions may be more effective when based on a spatially-explicit assessment of the mosaic of surviving forest and severely burned patches. Such a decision-making framework includes detailed considerations both for postfire fuels management\, e.g.\, edge hardening of surviving forest patches and repeat burning\, and for postfire reforestation\, e.g.\, nucleation planting strategies to establish “islands” of seed trees\, spatial planning to optimize reforestation success\, tradeoffs between intensive and extensive tree planting\, and improving nursery capacity. The decision-making framework developed here can be integrated with existing postfire management infrastructure to optimize allocation of limited resources while not abandoning recently burned landscapes\, which will continue to expand in a future of increasing fire activity.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/postfire-landscape-management-in-frequent-fire-conifer-forests-of-the-southwestern-us/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220119T103000
DTSTAMP:20260409T120327
CREATED:20211221T165224Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T173524Z
UID:73669-1642584600-1642588200@greatbasinfirescience.org
SUMMARY:Residents’ perspectives on Colorado’s 2020 Cameron Peak Fire
DESCRIPTION:Webinar recording. \nThe 2020 Cameron Peak Fire burned more than 200\,000 acres of public and private land in northern Colorado making it the largest fire recorded in Colorado’s history. Extreme fire behavior driven by dense and dry fuels\, steep terrain\, and weather and climatic factors greatly affected the range of potential management strategies. Many different communities were affected by the fire from smoke\, repeated and long-term evacuations\, emotional distress\, and property impacts. Social science researchers at Colorado State University\, in conjunction with the USDA Rocky Mountain Research Station\, interviewed more than 50 landowners and residents in communities directly impacted by the Cameron Peak Fire to understand and share their experiences and perspectives. Join this webinar to learn about people’s attitudes on the communication and fire management strategies\, their perceptions of post-fire landscape recovery and forest health\, and their support for future forest and fire management.
URL:https://greatbasinfirescience.org/event/residents-perspectives-on-colorados-2020-cameron-peak-fire/
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