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  • Fire-weather drivers of severity and spread: Learning from past fire patterns to inform future wildfire decision making

    Webinar recording. Fire is an essential component in restoring and maintaining a healthy forest. However, historic land use and decades of fire suppression has excluded fire from millions of forested hectares across much of the western United States, including the Grand Canyon National Park. Forest restoration at the Grand Canyon aims to reduce wildfire vulnerability…

  • 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 and Durability, Insurance Institute for Business & Home Safety Research Center. The session will focus on “home hardening,” defined as building or retrofitting homes to…

  • 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. Almost 25% of the region is in Exceptional Drought (D4), up from 3% just a month ago. Wildfires are raging, sending smoke throughout the rest…

  • 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 foster more resilient outcomes. Land use planning provides a variety of tools, such as growth management plans, subdivision regulations, or wildland-urban interface (WUI) codes that…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Putting LANDFIRE data and models to work in the scientific community

    Webinar recording. Members of the LANDFIRE Team will bring you a timely, relevant and succinct webinar describing three different applications of LANDFIRE data in published scientific literature from 2021. Our talk will start with a “30K foot view” of how LANDFIRE data is (generally) used by students, academics and agencies. We will then spotlight three…

  • Lessons from Evacuation Planning: Part 1

    Webinar recording. Part 1 of this webinar series will feature three practitioners in a combined presentation and panel format. Learn about the evacuation planning and preparedness work happening in Oregon (City of Ashland and Deschutes County) and Colorado (Boulder County). Featured Speakers: Chris Chambers (Ashland Fire), Nathan Garibay (Deschutes County OEM), and Mike Chard (Boulder…

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