Events
Salvage Science Summit II
Salvage Science Summit Fall 2021 - Panel Discussion Day 1 Salvage Science Summit Fall 2021 - Panel Discussion Day 2
PJ woodlands in a changing climate webinar series- Recordings available
Webinar recording for Day 1. Webinar recording for Day 2. Climate change in the Great Basin poses many challenges to land management. This webinar series will discuss recent research and observations of climate and drought-driven changes in pinyon-juniper woodland dynamics. Tune in to better understand what changes may be in store. These one-hour webinars will…
Prescribed fire
Fire Aware. Fire Prepared- Wildfire Wednesday's webinar series presented by Oregon State University Extension. Webinar recordings are available at the Fire Program website.
Boundary spanning features for collective action to reduce wildfire risk
Webinar recording. Overview: This presentation will share key findings from a recent Joint Fire Science Project, specifically on: 1) the multiple types of boundaries in managing wildfire risk, and the boundary spanning features that can help cross them; 2) what strategies actors utilized for wildfire risk reduction across five case studies in the West; and…
AGU 2021 Fall Meeting
Conference website. AGU Fall Meeting 2021 will be held in-person in New Orleans, Louisiana as well as online everywhere from 13-17 December.
Bi-state sage-grouse science symposium
Symposium recording. Full symposium agenda. USGS will hold a Bi-State Sage-Grouse Science Symposium. This virtual symposium will highlight the research, science, and management tools that support sage-grouse monitoring and conservation efforts in the Bi-State area of California and Nevada. Pete Coates and Western Ecological Research Center staff members will present information on: Population trends for…
Rangeland economics 101
View recorded sessions. NV Section of the Society for Rangeland Management is hosting an all-day webinar.
Residents’ perspectives on Colorado’s 2020 Cameron Peak Fire
Webinar recording. The 2020 Cameron Peak Fire burned more than 200,000 acres of public and private land in northern Colorado making it the largest fire recorded in Colorado’s history. Extreme fire behavior driven by dense and dry fuels, steep terrain, and weather and climatic factors greatly affected the range of potential management strategies. Many different…
Postfire landscape management in frequent-fire conifer forests of the southwestern US
Webinar recording. The increasing incidence of large wildfires with extensive stand-replacing effects across the southwestern United States is altering the contemporary forest management template within historically frequent-fire conifer forests. While management of fire-excluded forests continues to be a priority for land managers, an increasing fraction of western conifer forests have recently burned. Many of these…
Developing divergent, plausible, and relevant climate futures for near- and long-term resource planning
Webinar recording. It seems the effects of climate change were all too clear in 2021. Yet, we know more change is expected. When trying to adapt to a changing climate, with all the inherent uncertainties about how the future may play out, resource managers often turn to scenario planning as a tool. Managers use scenario…