Events
Events
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Diversity is magic: Emerging issues in selecting appropriate native plant materials for ecosystem restoration
Access webinar recording. Selecting species and seed from appropriate sources to maximize project success faces many challenges. This presentation will review plant selection for ecosystem diversity that supports economically and…
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Ecology, history, ecohydrology, and management of PJ woodlands in the Great Basin
Webinar recording. Rick Miller, Professor Emeritus, OSU, discusses the intent and goals of his latest publication, The Ecology, History, Ecohydrology, and Management of Pinyon and Juniper Woodlands in the Great…
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The west-wide fuelcasting system
Webinar recording. Description: Fuelcasting is a new program that provides projections of expected fuel conditions this grazing season. It is an important component of the Rangeland Production Monitoring System. he…
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Woodland and tallgrass prairie restoration case studies
Webinar recording. Two speakers present restoration ecology research published in the January 2020 issue of the Natural Areas Journal: Leighton Reid shares understory plant community outcomes based on twelve years…
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Listening to the flow: Discoveries from wildland fire acoustics
Webinar recording. Sound is a fundamental part of our experience when interacting with the world around us. So fundamental in fact, that we often forget to question what it is…
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Assessing the Nation’s Native Seed Supply
Webinar recording. The first goal of the National Seed Strategy (developed by the Plant Conservation Alliance and through an MOU of 12 federal agencies) is to assess the national public…
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Southwest fire season review for 2019 and outlook for 2020
Webinar recording. The purpose of this webinar is to review 2019 fires and look ahead toward conditions for 2020. Dr. Zander Evans presented an overview of the largest fires in…
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A framework for climate-smart restoration
Access webinar recording. Description: Ecological restoration efforts are being implemented in the context of a rapidly changing climate, which poses a new set of challenges and uncertainty. Climate-smart restoration is…
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A public engagement protocol: Social science support of planning efforts
USFS webinar recording. Description: Forest planning and management efforts, including both forest plan revision and comprehensive river management planning, require extensive public engagement. Social science approaches that are practically applied by practitioners within the public engagement process are limited. Armatas and colleagues have developed a "social vulnerability" protocol focused on peoples’ human-nature relationships that can…
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Wildfire preparedness and prevention
Webinar recording. Description: Oregon State University’s Forestry & Natural Resources Extension Fire Program and its partners present a webinar series on Wildfire Preparedness and Prevention in Oregon. The first of three webinars focuses on wildfire awareness. What is the wildfire problem? What are the current conditions? How could the COVID-19 pandemic affect wildfire response? How…
