Events
An all lands approach to grazing management
View webinar recording. The webinar "An All Lands Approach to Grazing Management" examined cross-boundary strategies for cooperative grazing management between a variety of federal and state agencies in Idaho. These…
Decision support tools for natural resource managers in sagebrush communities and across the Pacific Northwest
Bend, OR Bend, United StatesView workshop resources. The Conservation Biology Institute, the Great Basin LCC, Oregon State University, and EcoAdapt hosted a workshop to present a series of decision support tools for land managers…
Effect of fuels management, previous wildfire, and fire weather on Rim Fire severity
View webinar recording. Large wildfire incidence has increased in forests throughout the western U.S. following changes in vegetation structure and pattern, along with a changing climate. Given this increase there…
Where there’s smoke . . . there’s social science! Public perceptions of smoke & communication from multiple regions
View webinar recording. This Joint Fire Science Program project used a case-study approach to examine what influenced smoke perceptions and to experiment with possible communication strategies. Key findings regarding smoke…
Integrating natural hazard mitigation plans into local planning
View webinar recording. Local plans, such as the comprehensive plan, economic development plan, and transportation plan, establish policies that are intended to guide a community’s day-to-day land use decisions and capital facilities expenditures. These policies have a major impact on whether people and property are exposed to natural hazards as well as the extent to…
Fuel control treatments in the sagebrush steppe: Recognizing and dealing with climate-related differences among sites
View webinar recording. Bruce Roundy, Brigham Young University, discusses indicators of resilience and resistance of sagebrush steppe communities associated with soil temperature and water availability as learned from SageSTEP.
Returning fire to the land: Celebrating traditional knowledge and fire
View webinar recording. In this webinar, Frank Lake, Research Ecologist with the Pacific Southwest Research Station will present findings from workshops held in 2012 and 2014 to investigate how traditional…
Federal fire managers’ perceptions of the importance, scarcity, and substitutability of suppression resources
View webinar recording. In the United States, multi-jurisdictional fire suppression demand is met by a national-scale pool of suppression resources that come from a variety of jurisdictions and provide a…
Using narrative stories to understand Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the Great Basin
View webinar recording. This pilot project used a method of naïve interviewing with tribal youths to gather narrative “micro stories” from elders and key tribal members and then answering a series of carefully constructed questions that allow participants to apply context and meaning to their stories. These questions were then analyzed quantitatively using correlational statistics…
Informing recovery through mitigation planning
View webinar recording. A key goal of both hazard mitigation and recovery is increasing resilience. Although these two activities differ in many respects, this shared objective of increased resilience allows mitigation and recovery planning to reinforce one another and leverage greater benefits within the development of plans, and programs or projects. Because both mitigation and…