Events
Events
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First comes fire – Then comes flood
Webinar registration. The cascading effects of post wildfire can bring more devastation to an already battered community. Utah’s Post Wildfire Mitigation Team, established in 2019, is led by the Utah…
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How do fire managers use information? Developing practical weather and climate information
Webinar recording. Description: Three short presentations about recent work from the University of Arizona on understanding how wildland fire managers in the Southwest value and use weather and climate information and decision support tools, and developing experimental weather and climate tools that are easy to use and fulfill a direct need for wildland fire managers.…
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Tree growth and resilience of aspen and Chihuahua pine in Saguaro National Park
Webinar recording. Presenters: Gabrielle Ayres, Erin Todd, and Peter Fulé with Northern Arizona University School of Forestry, Alicia Azpeleta Tarancón - Mediterranean Ecogeomorphological and Hydrological Connectivity Research Team with University of the Balearic Islands, and Will Flatley - Department of Geography with the University of Central Arkansas. Description: At the upper elevations of Saguaro National…
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Targeted grazing S6 E4 of Reading the Tea Leaves
View presentation (23:42). Targeted grazing presents a great opportunity for managing fuels in rangeland environments. However, there numerous considerations that must be thought through and discussed prior to implementation. Issues such as poisonous plants, livestock acclimation, phenology, and nutritional concerns are among the list discussed in this episode. In this webcast, Research Ecologist, Matt Reeves…
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How LANDFIRE uses image-based modeling to map vegetation and update fuels
Webinar recording. Speaker: Daryn Dockter, LANDFIRE Technical Lead, TSSC, EROS
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Building for Wildfire Resilience in Hawai’i
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FUEL + (LAND)FIRE = SMOKE
Webinar recording (50:02). In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Paul Corrigan (Smoke and RAWS Coordinator, US Forest Service, Intermountain Region) walks viewers through the work required to conduct smoke modeling at scale. He describes the steps required to make informed smoke predictions on wildland fires. LANDFIRE is an input in the well-known BlueSky (https://tools.airfire.org/playground/...) Playground, which…
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Targeting the grass-fire cycle through soil-surface rehabilitation
Webinar recording. Biocrust sods (portable islands of lichens, mosses, cyanobacteria, and other organisms that form the cohesive soil communities known as biological soil crusts) are a novel technique for restoring critical soil systems in degraded landscapes. Because biocrusts can suppress the emergence of exotic plants, biocrust sods may also serve as living, ecologically beneficial fuel…
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Fire Management Considerations in the Urban Interface
Webinar recording. Large loss wildfires are a growing concern in much of the central and western US, where wildfires originating or moving into the wildland-urban interface continue to impact high value residential and commercial infrastructure. As such, fire managers continue to face challenges in terms of reining in suppression costs and allocation of resources on…
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Fuel treatments in sagebrush and other semiarid uplands: The FIREss approach to improving mapping, planning, and effectiveness
Webinar recording (51:43). In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Matt Germino, Supervisory Research Ecologist, Jake Price, Ecologist, Chad Kluender, Ecologist, and Cara Applestein, Ecologist (U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center) discuss fuel treatments and management challenges in sagebrush and other semiarid uplands of the western US. The USGS FIREss team (Fires, Invasives, Restoration…
