Events
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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. This event is a three-stage process. First, watch…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
Fuel breaks in practice
Webinar recording. This is the fifth of six webinars in our Fuel Breaks in Sagebrush Country: A Multidisciplinary Webinar Series and Discussion. To learn about other webinars in the series,…