Great Basin Fire Science Exchange

Ecological drought: Future of aquatic flows
2024-11-04 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
Webinar recording.
This webinar will explore how climate change is altering aquatic flows in streams and rivers across the country. Implications of how the nexus of climate and aquatic flows may impact aquatic ecosystem management will also be discussed. Research findings from the 2022–2024 Climate Adaptation Postdoctoral (CAP) Fellows cohort will be shared.

Recreating and relating to the land after fire
2024-11-06 12:00 - 13:00
Webinar recording.
Wildfires reshape recreation access and experiences over the short and long term. A researcher shares emerging science that is revealing how people return to and perceive wildfire-affected landscapes, and a manager shares how they navigate decisions about supporting recreation in these contexts.

The fire problem
2024-11-21 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
Join us for a watch party for a new documentary “The Fire Problem.” Released by the University of Montana, the video features interviews with several Forest Service researchers.

How will future climate change impact prescribed fire across the contiguous US?
2024-12-04 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
The use of prescribed fire to manage ecosystems is increasing across the United States, but climate change threatens to impact future opportunities for prescribed fire as a result of changes in meteorological conditions and fuels. I will discuss the results of a recent study which combined prescription information from 80 sites across the US with LANDFIRE fuels data and downscaled future climate projections to evaluate how climate change will impact future availability of burn days. Our results indicate that rising maximum temperatures may lead to decreases in burn days across the eastern US, while rising minimum temperatures and decreasing wind speeds may lead to increased opportunities for prescribed fire in the northern and northwestern US.

Fire eruption: First results from the California Canyon fire experiment
2024-12-05 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
The California Canyon Fire Experiment is the first large-scale field experiment that observed fire eruption. The experiment was conducted in a steep canyon near Salinas, CA on 24 October 2022. A large suite of in situ and remote sensing instruments were deployed including micrometeorological towers, Doppler radar and lidar and airborne infrared imaging systems. The experiment was designed to allow a head fire to spread freely up a canyon under weak ambient winds to investigate the mechanisms of fire eruption. Preliminary results indicate that fire eruption occurred after the fire front reached the upper region of the canyon and fire spread was dominated by fire-induced in-drafts measured by Doppler lidar. This presentation will describe the goals of the experiment, experimental design, the phenomena sampled, the instruments used, and preliminary results.

The fire suppression bias
2024-12-12 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
Fire suppression is the primary management response to wildfires in many areas globally. By removing less-extreme wildfires, this approach ensures that remaining wildfires burn under more extreme conditions. This is termed the “suppression bias”, and it fundamentally impacts wildfire activity, independent of fuel accumulation and climate change. Attempting to suppress all wildfires necessarily means that fires will burn with more severe and less diverse ecological impacts, with burned area increasing at faster rates than expected from fuel accumulation or climate change. Over a human lifespan, the modeled impacts of the suppression bias exceed those from fuel accumulation or climate change alone, suggesting that suppression may exert a significant and underappreciated influence on patterns of fire globally. Managing wildfires to safely burn under low and moderate conditions is thus a critical tool to address the growing wildfire crisis. Presented by Mark Kreider, TNC

Expanding the fuels planning toolkit: Terrestrial laser scanning and 3D fuels characterization for improved wildland fire decision support
2025-01-16 09:00 - 10:30
Webinar recording.
Wildland fire managers require an expanded toolbox for decision support in the context of an increasingly novel fuel and fire environment complicated by a changing climate, invasive species encroachment, and rapid increase in wildland-urban interface in many areas within the U.S. Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) offers an efficient, cost-effective, and powerful tool for characterizing high resolution, sub-canopy forest and fuel structural conditions with the simple press of a button. In this panel discussion, TLS subject matter experts from both research and operations will share their efforts and practical applications of TLS and other 3D wildland fuels characterization tools for improved wildland fire planning, fire effects monitoring, and decision support.

Building ecosystem resilience and adaptive capacity: A systematic review of aspen ecology and management in the SW
2025-01-22 11:00 - 12:00
Webinar recording.
Speaker: Connor Crouch, Forester, USDA Forest Service, Mark Twain National Forest.
Description: In this webinar from the Forest Stewards Guild and Southwest Fire Science Consortium, attendees will hear about insights from the recent paper. The speaker will highlight the threat to aspen ecosystems posed by climate change, chronic ungulate browse, and outbreaks of the invasive insect oystershell scale. He will make the case for three aspen management objectives to address these threats and increase aspen resilience and adaptive capacity: (1) promote diversity in age structure by enhancing regeneration and recruitment, (2) mitigate impacts of ungulate browse on recruitment, and (3) enhance structural, adaptive, and functional complexity. The webinar will detail how various management strategies could meet these objectives.

Interdisciplinary understanding and prediction of wildfires
2025-01-28 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
Presenters: Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; Karen Short, USDA Forest Service
Description: Understanding of the conditions that contribute to wildfire ignitions and impacts increases capacity to mitigate wildfire risks. The Fire Program Analysis Fire-Occurrence Database (FPA FOD) contains information on the location, jurisdiction, discovery time, cause, and final size of more than 2 million wildfires from 1992 through 2020. To each of those wildfire records, we added information on 267 physical, biological, social, and administrative attributes. As we will demonstrate, these publicly available data can be used to answer numerous questions about the circumstances associated with human- and lightning-caused wildfires. We will share examples of how the enhanced FPA FOD data can support descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive wildfire analytics, including the development of machine learning models.

Spatial and temporal trends in causes of human-ignited wildfires
2025-01-30 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
Presenter: John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced
Description: Red flag warnings (RFWs) are issued to alert management and emergency response agencies of weather conditions that are conducive to extreme wildfire behavior. Issuance of RFWs also can encourage the public to exercise extreme caution with activities that could ignite a wildfire. Among the ignition causes associated with human activity, some generally reflect short-term behavioral decisions, whereas others are linked to infrastructure and habitual behaviors. From 2006–2020, approximately 8% of wildfires across the western United States were discovered on days with RFWs. We discuss our discovery that although the number of human-caused fires was higher on RFW days than on similar days without RFWs, the warnings appeared to disproportionately reduce the number of ignitions associated with short-term behavioral choices.

USGS Sagebrush Ecosystem and Fire Science 2025 Webinar Series
2025-01-30 10:00 - 2025-03-06 11:30
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. Read about this cooperative Success Story or continue reading below to access recorded presentations and summaries of sagebrush ecosystem and fire science findings.
Dates, Topics, and Presentations: 1/30 – Sage-grouse, carbon topicsWebinar recording Summary webpage Program with speakers, talks, and resources

Greater sage-grouse hierarchical population monitoring framework: Range-wide application of an early warning systems for populations at-risk – Coates, Weise et al.
Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation actions directed for greater sage-grouse using hierarchical models and the Conservation Efforts Database – Coates et al.
Greater sage-grouse range-wide seasonal habitat maps: Identifying regional thresholds and relationships between trends and seasonal habitat use – Wann et al.
Characterizing the environmental drivers of range-wide gene flow for greater sage-grouse – Zimmerman et al.
Characterizing greater sage-grouse climate driven maladaptation – Zimmerman et al.
Quantifying carbon storage and greenhouse gas emissions in sagebrush rangelands to inform management for carbon resilience – Bagcilar et al.

2/6 – Invasive species, restoration effectiveness, and monitoringWebinar recording Summary webpage Program with speakers, talks, and resources

Develop annual herbaceous percent cover maps in near-real time – Boyte et al.
Proliferation of fine fuels: Assessing under future climatic conditions – Roche et al.
Optimizing sagebrush restoration and management actions to increase connectivity within the Sagebrush Conservation Design – Tarbox et al.
Assessing cheatgrass treatment efficacy across the sagebrush biome – Tarbox et al.
Simulating trends in land health components under treatment scenarios and Sagebrush Conservation Design – Christensen et al.
Biome-wide vegetation change monitoring and warning system – Aldridge et al.
Vectors of annual grass invasion – Roche et al.
Predicting reburn risk to restoration investments – Applestein et al.

2/20 – Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, and fuels managementWebinar recording Summary webpage Program with speakers, talks, and resources

Planning for conservation delivery success: Linking biome-wide Sagebrush Conservation Design to local treatment planning by leveraging landscape restoration outcomes- Arkle et al.
Technical transfer tools for the Nevada and Oregon rangeland monitoring project (NORMP) – Pilliod et al.
Rapid and Other Assessment and Monitoring Methods (ROAM) project – Jeffries et al.
Pinyon-juniper treatments for minimizing climate and fire vulnerability – Noel et al.
Synthesis and forecasts of pinyon-juniper woodland die-off – Wion (No recording)
Synthesizing scientific information on treatment and natural disturbance effects on pinyon-juniper woodlands and associated wildlife habitat – Halperin et al.

2/27 – Fire, fuels management, invasive species – Webinar recording Summary webpageProgram with speakers, talks, and resources

Effectiveness of layering treatments in the “multiple-intervention” response to wildfire in sagebrush steppe – Germino et al.
A collaborative and iterative framework for delivering applied fuel break science: With a focus on sagebrush ecosystems and the Great Basin – Shinneman et al.
UAS survey of sagebrush fuel breaks – Shinneman et al.
Invasive annual grass – Economic assessment – Orning et al.
Longevity of herbicides targeting exotic annual grasses in sagebrush-steppe soils – Germino et al.
Synthesis of indaziflam outcomes for protecting sagebrush ecosystems – Roche et al.
Can ruderal components of biocrust be maintained under increasing threats of drought, grazing, and wild horses? Condon et al.

3/6 – Climate, vegetation trends, and big gameWebinar recording Summary webpage Program with speakers, talks, and resources

Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) vegetation trend summaries – Rigge
Integrating climate, sagebrush ecological integrity, and grazing – Holdrege et al.
Influence of future climate scenarios on habitat and population dynamics of greater sage-grouse – O’Neil et al.
Understanding and forecasting environmental controls over plant establishment in sagebrush ecosystems to enhance restoration success – Siegmund, Stears et al.
Treatment and post-fire assessment tools for management of the sagebrush ecosystem – Duniway, Tyree et al.
Science to support elk management efforts to reduce CWD risk – Janousek et al.

Society for Range Management - 2025 Annual Meeting
2025-02-09 - 2025-02-13
Meeting website.
Save the date for the 2025 SRM Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA.
February 9-13, 2025

California Community Wildfire Protection Plan Toolkit Introductory Webinar
2025-02-20 10:00 - 11:00
View webinar recording (1:00:02).
Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs) are collaboratively developed by local, state, federal and tribal partners. CWPPs focus on reducing wildfire risk to people, homes, businesses, watersheds, cultural resources, infrastructure, natural ecosystems, and other values or resources within a defined planning area. The California CWPP Toolkit provides important guidance and resources for communities to develop and implement these plans across the State.

Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, fuels management topics 2/20: 2025 USGS webinar series
2025-02-20 10:00 - 11:30
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 2/20/2025, USGS researchers, Rob Arkle, Doug Shinneman, and Michelle Jeffries, shared research on monitoring and planning, Adam Noel and Sarah Halperin shared their latest research on pinyon-juniper treatments and decision support. Below are the webinar recording and resources associated with each presentation.
To view a complete list of resources (completed and planned), please view the program for this slate of presentations.
2/20 – Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, and fuels management Webinar recording
Planning for conservation delivery success: Linking biome-wide Sagebrush Conservation Design to local treatment planning by leveraging landscape restoration outcomes Land Treatment Exploration Tool (LTET)
Technical transfer tools for the Nevada and Oregon rangeland monitoring project (NORMP) Oregon rangeland monitoring program: SageCon
Rapid and Other Assessment and Monitoring Methods (ROAM) project ROAM project website
Pinyon-juniper treatments for minimizing climate and fire vulnerability Project website Most PJ woodland species distributions projected to shrink under climate change Data of estimated environmental suitability of PJ species under various climate scenarios Earth Engine App with PJ projected distributions
Synthesizing scientific information on treatment and natural disturbance effects on pinyon-juniper woodlands and associated wildlife habitat Project website Ecological effects of PJ removal in the western US: A synthesis (2014-2021)

National Native Seed Conference 2025
2025-02-24 - 2025-02-27
Conference website.
February 24-27, 2025 | Tucson, AZ
Seeds for Change: Seeding the Future Together
The National Native Seed Conference connects Research, Industry, Land Management, and Restoration professionals, providing the premier opportunity to develop relationships and share information about the collection, research and development, production, and use of native plant materials.
The 2025 National Native Seed Conference is dedicated to the science, practice, and policy of producing and effectively using native seed. The conference supports the America the Beautiful Executive Order, National Seed Strategy for Rehabilitation and Restoration, and the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration.

Treatment tracking events with LANDFIRE
2025-02-27 09:00 - 10:00
Webinar recording.
LANDFIRE is one of several programs that tracks treatment events on the landscape. Join TNC Fire Ecologist, Kori Blankenship as she discusses the importance of knowing when and where these treatments occur – having this knowledge available allows land managers to track progress towards land management objectives. Kori provides a brief summary of treatment tracking events and their effort to demonstrates how The Nature Conservancy is using LANDFIRE’s Events data to assess the extent of treatments in dry forests in the 11 western states.

Fire, fuels management, invasive species topics 2/27: 2025 USGS webinar series
2025-02-27 10:00 - 11:30
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 2/27/2025, USGS researchers, Matt Germino, Doug Shinneman, and Beth Horning shared research on fuels, fuel breaks, and economics useful to decision making, Matt Germino and Morgan Roche shared research on herbicide treatments for invasive annual grasses, and Lea Condon shared research on the threats to biocrust in sagebrush ecosystems. Below are the webinar recording and resources associated with each presentation.
To view a complete list of resources (completed and planned), please view the program for this slate of presentations.
2/27 – Fire, fuels management, and invasive species
Webinar recording
Longevity of herbicides targeting exotic annual grassed in sagebrush-steppe soils
Project webpage
Patchy response of cheatgrass and nontarget vegetation to indaziflam and imazapic applied after wildfire in sagebrush steppe
A collaborative and iterative framework for delivering applied fuel break science: With a focus on sagebrush ecosystems and the Great Basin
Project webpage
Future direction of fuels management in sagebrush rangelands
UAS survey of sagebrush fuel breaks
Project webpage
Invasive annual grass – An economic assessment
Project webpage
Longevity of herbicides targeting exotic annual grasses in sagebrush-steppe soils
Project webpage
Intra-site sources of restoration variability in severely invaded rangeland: Strong temporal effects of herbicide–weather interactions; weak spatial effects of plant community patch type and litter
Synthesis of indaziflam outcomes for protecting sagebrush ecosystems
Project webpage
Can ruderal components of biocrust be maintained under increasing threats of drought, grazing, and wild horses?
Project webpage
Season of grazing interacts with soil texture, selecting for associations of biocrust morphogroups
Biological soil crusts are more prevalent in warmer and drier environments within the Great Basin ecoregion: Implications for managing annual grass invasion

Climate, vegetation trends, big game topics 3/6: 2025 USGS webinar series
2025-03-06 10:00 - 11:30
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 3/6/2025, USGS researchers, Matt Rigge, Martin Holdrege, and Shawn O’Neil shared research on vegetation trends and their relationships to climate, invasion, and disturbance, Gregor Siegmund, Alice Stears, Mike Duniway, and Gayle Tyree shared their latest research on planning and predicting succss of restoration treatments, and Will Janousek shared science on elk management. Below are the webinar recording and resources associated with each presentation.
To view a complete list of resources (completed and planned), please view the program for this slate of presentations.
3/6 – Climate, vegetation trends, and big game
Rangeland Condition Monitoring Assessment and Projection (RCMAP) vegetation trend summaries
Project webpage
Multi-Resolution Land Characteristics Consortium
RCMAP fractional component time-series data across western North America (1985-2023)
Integrating climate, sagebrush ecological integrity, and grazing
Project webpage
Observed wildfire frequency, modelled wildfire probability, climate, and fine fuels across the big sagebrush region in the western US
Influence of future climate scenarios on habitat and population dynamics of greater sage-grouse
Project webpage
Understanding and forecasting environmental controls over plant establishment in sagebrush ecosystems to enhance restoration success
Project webpage
Treatment and post-fire assessment tools for management of the sagebrush ecosystem
Project webpage
Science to support elk management efforts to reduce chronic wasting disease (CWD) risk
Project webpage

Defend and Grow the Core: Implementing the Sagebrush Conservation Design
2025-03-13 08:00 - 09:30
Webinar recording (1:00:34)
The Sagebrush Conservation Design (SCD) is a tool to identify intact sagebrush areas and address the largest threats to the ecosystem. The SCD focuses on first protecting intact and functioning sagebrush ecosystems, called Core Sagebrush Areas, then works outward toward more degraded areas (i.e., “Defend the Core”). The premise behind the Defend the Core approach is simple: focus resources first on preventative actions that retain ecosystem services in Core Sagebrush Areas because they are more cost-effective and more likely to be successful. The November 2024 special issue of Rangeland Ecology and Management is dedicated to applying the SCD to improve conservation outcomes across the sagebrush biome in the face of pervasive ecosystem threats. This special issue provides new science and real-world examples of how we can implement the SCD to save a biome. The overarching themes are: 1) Business-As-Usual Won’t Save the Sagebrush Sea, 2) Better Spatial Targeting Can Improve Outcomes, 3) Conservation Planning is Needed to Develop Realistic Business Plans, 4) Targeted Ecosystem Management: Monitoring Shows Managing for Sagebrush Ecological Integrity is Working, 5) Maintaining Sagebrush Ecological Integrity is Ecologically Relevant, and 6) There is Only Hope if We Manage Change. The collective articles show that there is no shared plan to save the biome, yet a business plan for the biome could ensure realistic goals. The sagebrush biome still has vast expanses of open spaces with high ecological integrity at a scale that is rare in other ecological systems within the lower 48 states. If we focus on the common ground of the main drivers of ecosystem change, implementing the SCD and Defending the Core are viable strategies to help save a biome.

Sage-grouse, carbon topics 1/30: 2025 USGS webinar series
2025-03-24 08:00 - 17:00
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 1/30/2025, USGS researchers, Pete Coates, Cali Weise, Greg Wann, and Shawna Zimmerman shared their latest on sage-grouse research and tool, and Seren Bagcilar shared research findings and plans on rangeland soil organic carbon. Below are the webinar recording and resources associated with each presentation. To view a complete list of resources (completed and planned), please view the program for this slate of presentations.
Webinar recording
Individual presentations and associated resources, within the project webpage with links to data and publications:
Sage-grouse Population Monitoring Framework
Project webpage
Contact Cali Weise (croth@usgs.gov) if interested in attending a workshop on the Population Monitoring Framework
How to use the Targeted Annual Warning System software
Project webpage Targeted Annual Warning System (TWAS) for greater sage-grouse in the western US The TWAS tool is live with a limited number of accounts, contact Cali Weise (croth@usgs.gov) for potential access
Evaluating effectiveness of sage-grouse conservation actions Project webpage Postfire growth of seeded and planted big sagebrush—strategic designs for restoring greater sage-grouse nesting habitatInterested in methods? Read: Cooperative conservation actions improve sage-grouse population performance within the bi-state distinct population segment
Sage-grouse range-wide seasonal maps Project webpage
Environmental drivers of sage-grouse gene flow Project webpage
Sage-grouse climate-driven maladaptation Project webpage
Treatment effects on rangeland soil organic carbon Project webpage

IMAGINE 2025 virtual workshop
2025-04-02 09:00 - 17:00
Workshop resources, recordings.
Invasive annual grasses (IAG) – including cheatgrass, medusahead, ventanata, and others – continue to be a primary cause of rangeland degradation in the western US. In this workshop, we build upon concepts presented in previous events (see https://www.invasivegrasses.com/virtual-workshop) and focus specifically on turning strategies into action for managing IAG. Not only will we learn about the most current science around managing IAG, we will also hear success stories from ongoing projects and partnerships around the West.
You asked for it, you get it! A major component of this year’s virtual workshop will focus on answering questions submitted by you, the participants. We have compiled a list of questions submitted by previous workshop participants and will combine them with questions you can submit when you register to provide specific responses to those questions. Together, we will explore uniting landscape-scale strategic conservation concepts with targeted, on-the-ground management techniques specifically designed to meet vegetation management goals.

Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment in IFTDSS
2025-04-03 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording (43:56)
Join the LANDFIRE Office Hour as Nicole Vaillant (Fire Management Specialist, RMRS, Fire Lab, Wildland Fire Management RD&A) discusses how conducting a Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment (QWRA) can enhance land management by evaluating wildfire risk and benefits across a landscape. This information can help plan fuel treatments, suppression responses, and fire effects monitoring. QWRA uses LANDFIRE data to model fire behavior, including fire likelihood, intensity, and impacts efficiently. The Interagency Fuel Treatment Decision Support System (IFTDSS) includes a workflow to make the QWRA process manageable and time efficient.

Westwide rangeland fuel assessment with Matt Reeves, USFS: Reading the tea leaves S6, E2
2025-04-09 08:00 - 08:30
Webinar recording (7:49)
The recent fires that swept the central and southern plains are catastrophic and exhibited extreme fire behavior. Fire behavior is a result of fuels, weather and topography and in this case the weather and fuels were extreme, and most importantly, the timing was just right. In this webcast, USFS, Research Ecologist Dr. Matt Reeves analyzes rangeland fuel conditions in the southern plains and keys in on the critical aspect of growing season position that is so influential to fire hazard. The conditions have to be just right to produce the type of outcomes witnessed in March and the high amount of standing dead grass (the minimum loading of herbaceous material in the fires we have seen to date was about 1200 pounds per acre on average), with no growth yet of green herbaceous material in the 2025 growing season permitted the extreme fire behavior across the region. All previous recordings are located on the Reading the Tea Leaves page.

Invasive species, restoration effectiveness, monitoring topics 2/6: 2025 USGS webinar series
2025-04-10 00:00
The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange teamed up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. On 2/6/2025, USGS researchers, Stephen Boyte and Morgan Roche shared their latest research on cheatgrass and fine fuels, Bryan Tarbox and Erica Christensen shared research on restoration treatment effectiveness, and Cam Aldridge and Cara Applestein shared research on monitoring and predictions to help restoration. Below are the webinar recording and resources associated with each presentation.
To view a complete list of resources (completed and planned), please view the program for this slate of presentations.
Webinar recording
Individual presentations and associated resources, within the project webpage with links to data and publications:
Develop annual herbaceous percent cover maps in near-real time Project webpage Exotic annual data
Proliferation of fine fuels: Assessing under future climatic conditionsOptimizing Sagebrush Restoration project webpage Proliferations project webpage
Optimizing sagebrush restoration and management actions to increase connectivity within the Sagebrush Conservation DesignProject webpagePrioritizing Restoration of Sagebrush Ecosystems Tool (PreSET) decision-support toolLeveraging soil, vegetation, fire, and land treatment data to inform restoration across the sagebrush biomeThe Sagebrush Conservation Design
Assessing cheatgrass treatment efficacy across the sagebrush biomeProject webpageSagebrush recovery modeling website and associated projectsSagebrush recovery projections layersLeveraging soil, vegetation, fire, and land treatment data to inform sagebrush restoration
Simulating trends in land health components under treatment scenarios and Sagebrush Conservation DesignProject webpage
Sagebrush biome-wide vegetation change monitoring and warning systemProject webpage
Vectors of annual grass invasion – Roche et al. Predicting reburn risk to restoration investmentsProjects webpage

Wildland Fire Peer-Learning Exchange
2025-04-15 - 2025-04-17
Event webpage.
The ANREP National Extension Wildland Fire Initiative or “NEWFI” is pleased to announce that NEWFI and its partners will be hosting a peer-learning exchange on wildland fire this spring 2025 in Wawona, CA, Yosemite’s Historic Town.
This peer-learning exchange was initially piloted in 2023 through NEWFI’s collaboration with NC State Extension Forestry, alongside other partners. It featured a multi-day, hands-on workshop that showcased effective strategies and activities for education and engagement in prescribed fire and fire science.
Back by popular demand, NEWFI along with the University of California’s Agriculture and Natural Resources Fire Network and the California Fire Science Consortium will host another peer-learning workshop on prescribed fire, cultural burning, home hardening, defensible space, and post-fire topics.

National Resource Inventory (NRI) on-site grazing land study
2025-04-17 16:00 - 17:00
Webinar join link.
The NRI program collects and produces scientifically credible information on the status, condition, and trends of land, soil, water, and related natural resources on the nation’s non-federal lands. It is the largest field-based survey of natural resources in the world. Inventories of natural resources have been conducted for over 65 years on non-Federal lands. For rangelands, the 12 current inventory and assessment protocols were developed in a collaboration of federal agencies, were tested for several years across the continental United States, and were set in 2004. The same set of protocols was applied to Federal rangelands beginning in 2009. This presentation describes the protocols and some of the new relevant information being generated by this longitudinal statistical study of on-site rangeland inventory.

Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership annual conference
2025-04-22 - 2025-04-23
Registration opens in March.
Please mark your calendars for the 2025 Idaho Forest Restoration Partnership Annual Conference. We will host the conference at the Barber Park Education and Event Center in Boise on the following dates:
April 22, 2025. 10:00am-4:00pm MDT
April 23, 2025. 8:00am-12pm MDT

Characterizing Ecosystems at Different Spatial Scales with LANDFIRE Data
2025-04-28 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar registration
Presenter: Sarah Anderson, Ecologist, Terrestrial Condition Assessment Coordinator
Partner Organization: US Forest Service, Terrestrial Condition Assessment Program, Natural Resources Staff Area, Washington DC Office

Fire and Fish Conference 2025
2025-04-30
Conference webpage. 42nd Annual Salmonid Restoration Conference: Fish & Fire 2025: Where There Are Fish, There is Fire 30 April 2025 Workshop Coordinator: Lenya N Quinn-Davidson, University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources

Use of LANDFIRE data in the Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS)
2025-04-30 10:00 - 11:00
Webinar recording.
Presenter: Sam Amato, Fire Application Specialist, Forest Service, Wildland Fire Management RD&A
