Events
Managing drought on targeted grazing landscapes
Webinar recording. Description: This webinar features a rancher and land manager panel discussing drought on targeted grazing landscapes. Panelists: Andrée Soares, President – Star Creek Land Stewards LLC (Los Banos) and member of RMAC; Brad Fowler, Owner – The Goat Works (Grass Valley); Nathan Medlar, Owner – NM Ranch Services (Auburn) Questions? Please contact Dan…
Low-tech, process-based riverscape restoration: Virtual workshop
Virtual workshop resources. This virtual workshop will introduce conservationists to ‘low-tech’ process-based approaches for restoring streams and their associated riparian areas (riverscapes) to benefit fish, wildlife, and working lands. Participants will learn principles guiding low-tech process-based restoration and become familiar with simple, hand-built tools, including Beaver Dam Analogues (BDAs) and Post-Assisted Log Structures (PALS), intended…
Grazing for fire prevention
Webinar recording. Panel discussion on grazing for fire prevention with Tracy Schohr, UCCE Livestock and Natural Resources Advisor for Plumas, Sierra & Butte Counties.
Sharing Science and Lessons Learned: COVID-19 and Wildfire
Webinar recording. Description: As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the…
International seed standards launch: Introductory webinar and panel discussion
Webinar recording Description: To ensure as many of you, the suppliers, end-users, industry, government and NGO’s have an opportunity to learn and speak first hand with some of the authors…
Resilience in national forest planning
Webinar recording. Description: Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national…
From parallel play to co-management: Conserving landscapes at risk of wildfire in the West
Webinar recording Description: Wildfire has fundamentally shaped the western landscapes we seek to conserve. It is a source of renewal and central to the functioning of many ecosystems; as well…
Collaborative forest landscape restoration program monitoring: A peer learning session
Webinar recording Description: During this session, USDA Forest Service and collaborative members will explore lessons learned in the first 10 years of CFLRP monitoring - what worked well and what challenges we continue to encounter in the multi-party monitoring of ecological, social, and economic effects. Given those lessons, we will then discuss where we go…
Southwest FireCLIME: Collaborative tools and science developed through JFSP
View short video (6:30) Southwest FireCLIME is a multi-year research partnership between scientists and resource managers to synthesize current knowledge of regional climate-fire-ecosystem dynamics. Our project has addressed this goal…
Developing long-term viable stream restoration: Main steps, considerations and lessons learned from Australia, Mexico, and US
Webinar recording. Over the past decade, Mark Briggs and co-editor, W.R. Osterkamp (retired, USGS), along with 55 stream restoration experts have collaborated on a stream restoration guidebook entitled Renewing Our Rivers: Stream Corridor Restoration in Dryland Regions. The guidebook highlights the main steps in developing a restoration response for damaged stream ecosystems that will have…