Events
Science x post-disturbance restoration
Webinar recordings. The SCIENCEx 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. These webinars will be primarily management focused, but with applicability for participants from across sectors. SCIENCEx…
11th Northwest Climate Conference
Conference website. On April 6-8, 2021 the University of Washington’s Climate Impacts Group hosted the 11th Northwest Climate Conference (NWCC) as a fully virtual conference. This conference has provided a networking and learning community for practitioners, scientists, tribal members, and community organizers interested in climate change impacts and adaptation in the Northwest for over a…
Fieldwork from afar: Remote sensing tools to inventory fuels and fire behavior
Webinar recording. Description: The idea of using sensors to remotely measure things is not new. Aerial photos taken from hot air balloons were first proposed as a tool for mapping streets in the 1850s. In 1941, a US Forest Service ranger developed a technique for mapping fuels with aerial photos. Recent advances in remote sensing…
Frameworks for conservation action in the Great Plains and sagebrush biomes
Webinar recording. Working Lands for Wildlife - the Natural Resources Conservation Service’s premier approach for conserving America’s working lands to benefit people, wildlife and rural communities - is excited to share information on two, action-based frameworks for conservation. The frameworks are the result of a multi-state planning effort and lay the foundation for the first…
Science gaps, modeling, and efficacy of fuel breaks
Webinar recording. This is the third of six webinars in our Fuel Breaks in Sagebrush Country: A Multidisciplinary Webinar Series and Discussion. To learn about other webinars in the series, see the webinar series webpage. This webinar features: Science and data gaps: How we’re addressing them – Doug Shinneman, USGS Current use of fire and…
Salvage science webinar series
The Salvage Science Series presents recent research on the effects of post-fire salvage logging and new tools for helping to plan salvage treatments. The event topics and speakers included: Incorporating Woodpecker Habitat into Design of Post-Fire Salvage Logging- Recording Vicki Saab - Research Wildlife Biologist, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Bozeman Jonathan Dudley…
Incident management and COVID-19, lessons learned and remaining challenges
Webinar recording. A conversation with Bea Day, Incident Commander, USDA Forest Service, Sara Sweeney, Superintendent, Mormon Lake Hotshots, USDA Forest Service and Stuart (Stu) Rodeffer, Logistics Section Chief, Portland NIMO Team, USDA Forest Service
Targeted grazing for fuel breaks
Webinar recording. This is the fourth of six webinars in our Fuel Breaks in Sagebrush Country: A Multidisciplinary Webinar Series and Discussion. To learn about other webinars in the series, see the webinar series webpage. This webinar features: Targeted grazing: A large multiregional fuel breaks project – Pat Clark, ARS Sheep grazing success in the…
Effectiveness of restoration treatments for reducing fuels and increasing
Webinar recording. This webinar shares research on forest structure and understory vegetation responses to three restoration treatments (thin/burn, burn, and control) over 10 years on a mixed-conifer site in southwestern Colorado. Forest density, canopy cover, and crown fuel loads were consistently lower, and crown base height was higher, in thin/burn than burn or controls, but…
Adapting to the era of megafires- Summit on catastrophic fire in OR and beyond
Summit registration and recordings. Presentations will be April 14, 21, and 28 and May 5 and 12 at 10 am PDT. Wildfire ravaged much of the western United States in 2020. Towns were destroyed, homes and businesses evacuated, forests incinerated, and lives lost. In Oregon, vast swaths of rural communities like Talent and Detroit were…