Events
Empowering private landowner conservation
View webinar recording. This webinar highlighted the importance of private land in species conservation efforts, innovative ways to address conservation finance, and the incentives that work for private landowners. Moderator: Chris…
Multi-species management and desert landscapes
View webinar recording. This webinar illuminated the challenges and opportunities posed by landscape-level species management in the desert southwest. Moderator: Matt McKinney, Director of the Center for Natural Resources and…
Critical habitat and invasive species
View webinar recording. This webinar examined how critical habitat designations are influenced by invasive species. Moderator: Chuck Bonham, Director of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Panelists: Dr. David…
Species conservation funding
View webinar recording. This webinar examined current methods of funding species conservation efforts, as well as challenges and opportunities to leveraging additional funding for conservation of at-risk and endangered species.…
8th Annual Sage-Grouse Initiative Workshop – Lessons and photos
Access resources. More than 135 conservation partners recently met in Boise, Idaho during the Sage Grouse Initiative’s 8th annual workshop. This year’s workshop focused on wildfire, weeds and rangeland restoration.…
Home and landscape wildfire defense lessons learned from the 2017 California wildfire season
View webinar recording. How could have so many homes and businesses burned so quickly in the Wine Country Fires? While the landscape can be the fuse, the homes really can…
Rangeland Analysis Platform: A tool to help manage, monitor western rangelands
Access webinar recording. The Rangeland Analysis Platform (RAP) is a free, online tool that helps landowners and natural resource managers track vegetation through time and plan actions to improve America's…
Full community costs of wildfire
View webinar recording. This webinar was originally presented August 29, 2018 11am AZ/12pm MDT by Kimiko Barrett of Headwaters Economics. As wildfires increase in size and severity, the costs to…
Fire and archaeology: Working together to protect cultural resources during wildfire and prescribed fire
View video. Land managers are challenged to protect cultural resources within the context of reintroducing fire on the landscape. Positive relationships and partnerships are essential to effective management.
Modeling and mapping the potential for high-severity fire in the West
View recording. The ecological effects of wildland fire – also termed the fire severity – are often highly heterogeneous in space and time. This heterogeneity is a result of spatial…