Events
Fire & Climate Change: Adaptation Planning for Tribes Workshop
The workshop will bring together up to 25 Tribal leaders, community members, environmental professionals, knowledge holders, academic partners, federal and state agency representatives, non-governmental organizations, and others. This course will provide an overview to planning for climate change impacts, with an emphasis on fire, highlighting the work of Tribes that have completed an adaptation plan…
Rising from ashes: A tribe’s nature-based approach to watershed restoration
Workshop webpage. Rising from Ashes: A Tribe’s Nature-based Approach to Watershed Restoration will highlight an innovative and iconic case study in public and private collaboration on sovereign tribal lands following a series of catastrophic wildfires. Given the increasing frequency of these fires, there is a vital need to mitigate destruction through preemptive nature-based restoration practices…
10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration
Conference website. SER2023 will held in person on 26-30 September 2023 in Darwin, Australia with additional virtual content delivery in the Western Hemisphere time zone during the week of 6 November 2023. The 10th World Conference on Ecological Restoration will focus on the important, and often neglected connection between culture and nature, including the role…
LANDFIRE Office Hours: How IFTDSS is changing the look of fuels planning
Webinar recording. In this LANDFIRE Office Hour, Kim Ernstrom, and Wendy Detwiler, Wildland Fire Management RD&A, Technical Leads IFTDSS (and Josh Hyde: Tech Transfer Specialist, University of Idaho) discuss the basics of using IFTDSS for fuels planning. We also discuss practical examples of how IFTDSS is being used in the field.
Colorado Wildfire Risk Assessment (CO-WRA)- Overview and technical discussion
Webinar recording. This webinar will provide an overview of the major changes in CO-WRA, including modification of Scott and Burgan (2005) standard fire behavior fuel models to better reflect fuel types in Colorado, incorporating LiDAR to produce higher spatial resolution data products, and advanced wildland-urban interface risk analysis. Presenters will explain how these datasets and…
Colorado wildfire risk assessment portal: Brief overview plus technical discussion
Webinar registration. This webinar will provide an overview of the major changes in CO-WRA, including modification of Scott and Burgan (2005) standard fire behavior fuel models to better reflect fuel types in Colorado, incorporating LiDAR to produce higher spatial resolution data products, and advanced wildland-urban interface risk analysis. Presenters will explain how these datasets and…
University of Idaho Rangeland Fall Forum 2023
Forum webpage. This year's forum will be held in Boise, ID with a symposium on October 5 and a field tour on October 6.
Mid-21st century shifts in fire regimes of PNW westside forests due to future climate change and impacts to communities
Webinar registration. Presenters: John Kim, USDA Forest Service Alex Dye, Oregon State University Description: Fire is an integral part of the disturbance regime of the Pacific Northwest’s moist temperate forests, but future fire patterns for this region remain uncertain. Using Energy Release Component (ERC) from 12 global climate models (GCM), we simulated thousands of plausible…
International Symposium on Conservation Impact
Symposium website. Event location: CSU Spur, Hydro Theater; Denver, Colorado Description: Nature-based solutions are increasingly being recognized as critical tools to making progress towards both climate and biodiversity goals, and countries around the world have committed to both measurable targets and funding to help reach them. The Symposium will connect the dots across existing efforts…
Prescribed burns as a tool to mitigate future wildfire smoke exposures
Webinar recording. Catastrophic wildfires in the western United States pose significant risks to public health, infrastructure, and ecosystems. As these wildfires become more frequent, there is a growing need for a common methodology to identify suitable locations for prescribed burning aimed at mitigating future wildfire impacts to affected populations and ecosystems. This presentation explores the…