Events
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…
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…
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…
Climate, megafires, and conservation financing
Access webinar recording. Join Climate Science for a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed…
Climate change assessment of vegetation, fire, and ecosystem services for tribal lands in the PNW
View recorded webinar. Researchers from the USFS PNW Research Station and Case Research synthesized model projections of changes in vegetation and fire across tribal lands in the PNW. They will demonstrate how these changes will impact economically and culturally important ecosystem services and how this information can be used for adaptation planning.
Lessons in creating and maintaining prescribed burn associations
View webinar recording. A Southern Fire Exchange webinar with John Weir of Oklahoma State University and the Oklahoma Prescribed Burn Association. Are you involved in creating, developing, guiding, or supporting…
Examining the role of human dimensions thinking in landscape conservation planning
View webinar recording. One of the greatest challenges facing landscape conservation is how to ensure ecosystem-wide conservation goals, such as those articulated in Landscape Conservation Designs, can effectively inform local…