Events

Why do houses burn in wildfires and what can we do about it?

Webinar recording. Recent destructive wildfires in northern California provide an opportunity to investigate how different factors influence home survival. We conducted an analysis of the 2018 Camp Fire, obtaining measurements…

Monitoring and removal of invasive grasses for restoration of dry desert systems

Webinar recording. In this webinar, a panel of scientists and practitioners will discuss a number of management techniques and research questions being utilized or tested in an effort to reduce the presence of introduced grasses and restore the historic fire regime. These include: Researching whether fire historically maintained the clumpy pattern of native vegetation in…

Nevada SRM Summer Meeting

Meeting webpage. Brad Schultz and colleagues will guide us on a tour to several locations where they have located and re-taken photos that were originally taken decades earlier. Topics for discussion will include, but not be limited to, aspen dynamics (is it disappearing or expanding?), expansion/increase of mountain browse species, and responses of higher elevation/higher…

Native seed: Supplying restoration

Webinar recording. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), in collaboration with the Society of Ecological Restoration’s International Network for Seed-based Restoration (SER-INSR), The Nature Conservancy (TNC), and Holden Films, produced…

Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices: A Virtual Class

Application required. The Community Wildfire Mitigation Best Practices training is designed to increase the skills of the professional mitigation practitioner and individuals who run mitigation programs. Participation in the 9-week…

Facing Fire: Aesthetics, Environment, and Policy in the West

Facing Fire: Aesthetics, Environment, and Policy in the West The panel discussion was livestreamed and recorded by Utah Public Radio. View the recording here. A cross-disciplinary panel with artists, policy makers, and a fire fighter to explore how we experience, perceive, respond, and research fire in the West. Following the discussion we will have a…