Events
Collaborative spatial planning using the Great Basin LCC’s Conservation Planning Atlas
Access webinar recording. The GBLCC Conservation Planning Atlas (CPA) is an important aspect of our effort to engage a landscape focus and best available science toward improving collaboration and maximizing conservation efforts in the Great Basin. Incorporating over 1000 spatial data layers related to conservation of the Great Basin region’s many natural and cultural resources,…
2018 Webinar Series: Managing cheatgrass by putting what we know into practice
View flyer. Conversion of native rangelands to cheatgrass, and subsequent impacts on wildfire regimes, are one of the most challenging threats to sagebrush ecosystems today. The widespread and complex nature of the problem and lack of clarity on effective management actions are often barriers to implementing meaningful treatments and practices to reduce risks. Although there…
Cheatgrass control methods and their impacts on perennial grasses: A systematic review of 64 years
View recording. Read webinar brief. Reducing cheatgrass has been a primary research topic and goal of ecological restoration for over 50 years. Our work examined published studies between 1946 and 2012 to identify how a broad range of control methods influence cheatgrass and perennial grass abundance. Based on this assessment, we identify obstacles encountered in…
US National Fire Danger Rating System: Past, present, and future
View webinar recording. This seminar was presented by W. Matt Jolly and recorded by the USFS, RMRS, Missoula Fire Sciences Laboratory.
Best management practices for pollinators (talk 1) and Calculated floral resource withdrawal by managed honey bees (talk 2)
View recordings. Talk 1: Scott Hoffman Black, Executive Director, Xerces Society: Best Management Practices for Pollinators: Creating Practices that are Meaningful and Implementable for Rangelands Talk 2: Jim Cane, Research Entomologist, USDA-ARS Pollinating Insect Research Unit: Calculated Floral Resource Withdrawal by Managed Honey Bees in Light of Native Bee Reproduction
Native bees and large mammals (talk 1) and Prairie restoration to support diverse pollinating insects (talk 2)
View recording. Talk 1: Mary Rowland, Research Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Forest Service; and Sandy DeBano, Associate Professor - Invertebrate Ecology, Oregon State University: Native Bees and Large Mammals: Vertebrate - Invertebrate Interactions in Riparian Natural Areas Talk 2: Thomas Kaye, Executive Director and Senior Ecologist at the Institute for Applied Ecology: Partnering with Pollinators: Prairie…
Fuel treatment effectiveness in the southern Blue Mountains of Oregon
View webinar recording. While fuel treatments in the dry conifer forests of the inland western U.S. are effective at reducing wildfire spread and severity at the stand-level, how effective are they at changing wildfire activity at the landscape scale? And will current management practices be sufficient as forests and climate change over the next century?…
Quantifying post-fire recovery of rangeland productivity
View webinar recording. This seminar was presented by Matt Reeves at the Missoula, MT, Rocky Mountain Research Station Fire Lab.
IFTDSS webinars recordings
Access recordings. Developing Treatment Alternatives Treatment comparison is one of the more complex parts of the IFTDSS app. There's no doubt that comparing landscapes is tricky business. If you find yourself scratching your head or staring at the screen a lot, join us to help take some of the mystery out of landscape comparisons! Recorded 13…
Smoke tools and information for prescribed fire and wildfire
View webinar recording. The science of wildland fire smoke modeling and the tools and information available are dramatically different from what they were 10 years ago. Satellite systems, computing power, social media, and investments in basic research and research delivery such as made by the Joint Fire Sciences Program (JFSP) and NASA are some of…