Events
Events
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First comes fire – Then comes flood
Webinar registration. The cascading effects of post wildfire can bring more devastation to an already battered community. Utah’s Post Wildfire Mitigation Team, established in 2019, is led by the Utah Division of Emergency Management. It brings together Federal, State, private and local partners to meet with communities throughout Utah affected by wildfires. The team discusses…
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How do fire managers use information? Developing practical weather and climate information
Webinar recording. Description: Three short presentations about recent work from the University of Arizona on understanding how wildland fire managers in the Southwest value and use weather and climate information…
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Tree growth and resilience of aspen and Chihuahua pine in Saguaro National Park
Webinar recording. Presenters: Gabrielle Ayres, Erin Todd, and Peter Fulé with Northern Arizona University School of Forestry, Alicia Azpeleta Tarancón - Mediterranean Ecogeomorphological and Hydrological Connectivity Research Team with University…
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Targeted grazing S6 E4 of Reading the Tea Leaves
View presentation (23:42). Targeted grazing presents a great opportunity for managing fuels in rangeland environments. However, there numerous considerations that must be thought through and discussed prior to implementation. Issues…
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How LANDFIRE uses image-based modeling to map vegetation and update fuels
Webinar recording. Speaker: Daryn Dockter, LANDFIRE Technical Lead, TSSC, EROS
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Building for Wildfire Resilience in Hawai’i
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FUEL + (LAND)FIRE = SMOKE
Webinar recording (50:02). In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Paul Corrigan (Smoke and RAWS Coordinator, US Forest Service, Intermountain Region) walks viewers through the work required to conduct smoke modeling at…
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Targeting the grass-fire cycle through soil-surface rehabilitation
Webinar recording. Biocrust sods (portable islands of lichens, mosses, cyanobacteria, and other organisms that form the cohesive soil communities known as biological soil crusts) are a novel technique for restoring…
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Fire Management Considerations in the Urban Interface
Webinar recording. Large loss wildfires are a growing concern in much of the central and western US, where wildfires originating or moving into the wildland-urban interface continue to impact high value residential and commercial infrastructure. As such, fire managers continue to face challenges in terms of reining in suppression costs and allocation of resources on…
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Fuel treatments in sagebrush and other semiarid uplands: The FIREss approach to improving mapping, planning, and effectiveness
Webinar recording (51:43). In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Matt Germino, Supervisory Research Ecologist, Jake Price, Ecologist, Chad Kluender, Ecologist, and Cara Applestein, Ecologist (U.S. Geological Survey Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem…
