Events
Answering questions about the appropriateness of woody vegetation treatments
Webinar recording and additional Q and A. Federal and state agencies across Utah and the Great Basin have been actively treating pinyon and juniper woodlands to improve wildlife habitat, reduce…
LANDFIRE Remap products in California
Webinar recording. This webinar focuses on LANDFIRE Remap products in the Southwest U.S., with specific emphasis on California applications. Presenters Jim Smith and Kori Blankenship will review improvements to LF’s…
Disaster spending and mitigation: A state-by-state story
Webinar recording. This webinar will provide an overview of The Pew Charitable Trust’s recent work on natural disaster spending. Remarks will focus on how all levels of government—and states in…
Assessment of community wildfire protection plans in AZ and the western US
Webinar recording. One mechanism with which communities-at-risk from wildfire have addressed planning and adaptation to wildfire are Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), which were created as part of the Healthy…
Right Seed in the Right Place at the Right Time: Tools for Sustainable Restoration Webinar Series 2015-16
The Great Basin Native Plant Project, Great Basin Fire Science Exchange, BLM Plant Conservation Program, the US Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station, and the Society for Ecological Restoration Great…
Winter Isn’t Coming. Prepare for the Pyrocene.
Webinar recording. Humanity’s fire practices are creating the fire equivalent of an ice age. Our shift from burning living landscapes to burning lithic ones is affecting all aspects of Earth.…
Rural Voices for Conservation Coalition (RVCC): 16th Annual Meeting
Meeting notes available from the RVCC meeting webpage. The RVCC Annual Meeting connects practitioners in land stewardship from across the West, facilitates peer to peer learning, and helps participants identify…
FlamMap 6.0 Fire Modeling System
Webinar recording. This webinar provides an introduction and overview of the FlamMap modeling system and its capabilities. FlamMap is a fire analysis desktop application that describes potential fire behavior (spread…
Potential Operational Delineations (PODs) in Strategic Wildfire Risk Planning
Webinar recording. Wildfire is one of the most contentious subjects affecting land managers, land owners, and the public. As a contagious process, the social, political, and ecological ramifications of wildfire…
New findings on policy barriers and opportunities: Strategies for increasing prescribed fire application on federal lands from case studies in the US West
Webinar recording. Prescribed fire is an important management tool on federal lands that is not being applied at the necessary or desired levels. Since 2017, we have been investigating policy…