Events
Society for Range Management – 2025 Annual Meeting
Meeting website. Save the date for the 2025 SRM Annual Meeting in Spokane, WA. February 9-13, 2025
Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, fuels management topics 2/20: 2025 USGS webinar series
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…
National Native Seed Conference 2025
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…
Treatment tracking events with LANDFIRE
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…
Fire, fuels management, invasive species topics 2/27: 2025 USGS webinar series
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…
Climate, vegetation trends, big game topics 3/6: 2025 USGS webinar series
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…
Defend and Grow the Core: Implementing the Sagebrush Conservation Design
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…
Sage-grouse, carbon topics 1/30: 2025 USGS webinar series
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…
IMAGINE 2025 virtual workshop
Register. 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…
Quantitative Wildfire Risk Assessment in IFTDSS
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…