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USGS Sagebrush Ecosystem and Rangeland Fire Science Webinar Series

The US Geological Survey Land Management Research Program and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange are teaming up to bring you updates in sagebrush, fire, and wildlife related research. Each 90-minute webinar will be 10-11:30 PST/11-12:30 MST, and presentations and published resources will be made available here after the conclusion of the series.

Register for all five webinars at once (you don’t have to attend all five).  Webinar flyer to share.

Dates, Topics, and Presentations:

1/30  – Greater sage-grouse

Greater sage-grouse hierarchical population monitoring framework: Range-wide application of an early warning systems for populations at risk – Pete Coates et al.

Evaluating the effectiveness of conservation actions directed for greater sage-grouse using hierarchical models and the conservation efforts database – Pete Coates et al.

Greater sage-grouse range-wide seasonal habitat maps: Identifying regional thresholds and relationships between trends and seasonal habitat use – Wann et al.

Characterizing the environmental drivers of range-wide gene flow for greater sage-grouse – Zimmerman et al.

Characterizing greater sage-grouse climate driven maladaptation – Zimmerman et al.

Quantifying carbon storage and greenhouse gas emissions in sagebrush rangelands to inform management for carbon resilience – Case et al.

2/6 – Invasive species, restoration effectiveness, and monitoring

Develop annual herbaceous percent cover maps in near-real time – Boyte et al.

Proliferation of fine fuels: Assessing under future climatic conditions – Heinrichs et al.

Optimizing sagebrush restoration and management actions to increase connectivity within the Sagebrush Conservation Design – Tarbox et al.

Assessing cheatgrass treatment efficacy across the sagebrush biome – Tarbox et al.

Simulating trends in land health components under treatment scenarios and Sagebrush Conservation Design – Monroe et al.
Biome-wide vegetation change monitoring and warning system – Aldridge

Vectors of annual grass invasion – Heinrichs et al.

Predicting reburn risk to restoration investments – Applestein and Germino

2/20 – Monitoring, pinyon-juniper, and fuels management

Planning for conservation delivery success: Linking biome-wide Sagebrush Conservation Design to local treatment planning by leveraging landscape restoration outcomes- Pilliod et al.

Technical transfer tools for the Nevada and Oregon rangeland monitoring project (NORMP) – Pilliod et al.

Rapid and Other Assessment and Monitoring Methods (ROAM) project – Pilliod et al.

Pinyon-juniper treatments for minimizing climate and fire vulnerability – Bradford

Synthesis and forecasts of pinyon-juniper woodland die-off – Wion

Synthesizing scientific information on treatment and natural disturbance effects on pinyon-juniper woodlands and associated wildlife habitat – Shinneman and Coates

Treatment and post-fire assessment tools for management of the sagebrush ecosystem – Duniway

2/27 – Fire, fuels management, invasive species

Effectiveness of layering treatments in the “multiple-intervention” response to wildfire in sagebrush steppe – Germino

A collaborative and iterative framework for delivering applied fuel break science: With a focus on sagebrush ecosystems and the Great Basin – Shinneman et al.

UAS survey of sagebrush fuel breaks – Shinneman and Kreitler

Invasive annual grass – Economic assessment – Meldrum et al.

Longevity of herbicides targeting exotic annual grasses in sagebrush-steppe soils – Germino and Lazarus

Synthesis of indaziflam outcomes for protecting sagebrush ecosystems – Roche et al.

Can ruderal components of biocrust be maintained under increasing threats of drought, grazing, and wild horses? Condon and Coates

3/6 – Climate, carbon, and more

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Aspen woodland

Building ecosystem resilience and adaptive capacity: A systematic review of aspen ecology and management in the SW

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Speaker: Connor Crouch, Forester, USDA Forest Service, Mark Twain National Forest.

Description: In this webinar from the Forest Stewards Guild and Southwest Fire Science Consortium, attendees will hear about insights from the recent paper. The speaker will highlight the threat to aspen ecosystems posed by climate change, chronic ungulate browse, and outbreaks of the invasive insect oystershell scale. He will make the case for three aspen management objectives to address these threats and increase aspen resilience and adaptive capacity: (1) promote diversity in age structure by enhancing regeneration and recruitment, (2) mitigate impacts of ungulate browse on recruitment, and (3) enhance structural, adaptive, and functional complexity. The webinar will detail how various management strategies could meet these objectives.

 

Burned WUI area

Spatial and temporal trends in causes of human-ignited wildfires

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Presenter: John Abatzoglou, University of California, Merced

Description: Red flag warnings (RFWs) are issued to alert management and emergency response agencies of weather conditions that are conducive to extreme wildfire behavior. Issuance of RFWs also can encourage the public to exercise extreme caution with activities that could ignite a wildfire. Among the ignition causes associated with human activity, some generally reflect short-term behavioral decisions, whereas others are linked to infrastructure and habitual behaviors. From 2006–2020, approximately 8% of wildfires across the western United States were discovered on days with RFWs. We discuss our discovery that although the number of human-caused fires was higher on RFW days than on similar days without RFWs, the warnings appeared to disproportionately reduce the number of ignitions associated with short-term behavioral choices.

 

Burned WUI area

Interdisciplinary understanding and prediction of wildfires

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Presenters: Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; Karen Short, USDA Forest Service
Description: Understanding of the conditions that contribute to wildfire ignitions and impacts increases capacity to mitigate wildfire risks. The Fire Program Analysis Fire-Occurrence Database (FPA FOD) contains information on the location, jurisdiction, discovery time, cause, and final size of more than 2 million wildfires from 1992 through 2020. To each of those wildfire records, we added information on 267 physical, biological, social, and administrative attributes. As we will demonstrate, these publicly available data can be used to answer numerous questions about the circumstances associated with human- and lightning-caused wildfires. We will share examples of how the enhanced FPA FOD data can support descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and prescriptive wildfire analytics, including the development of machine learning models.

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The fire suppression bias

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Presented by Mark Kreider, TNC

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Science for post-fire restoration

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The USDA Forest Service Research and Development is proud to host a series of SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on topics associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and beyond. The SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions will provide big picture and synthetic looks at the current state of knowledge and management considerations for each topic. Each panel is comprised of expert practitioners and researchers from the Forest Service, universities, other land management organizations, industry and non-governmental organizations. Pre-registration is required, and each recorded session will be 90-minutes in length.

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Chaparral fuels treatments – Including CA and SW ecosystems

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The USDA Forest Service Research and Development is proud to host a series of SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on topics associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and beyond. The SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions will provide big picture and synthetic looks at the current state of knowledge and management considerations for each topic. Each panel is comprised of expert practitioners and researchers from the Forest Service, universities, other land management organizations, industry and non-governmental organizations. Pre-registration is required, and each recorded session will be 90-minutes in length.

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Fuels treatments in non-forested systems: Rangelands, grasslands, shrublands, and more

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The USDA Forest Service Research and Development is proud to host a series of SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on topics associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and beyond. The SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions will provide big picture and synthetic looks at the current state of knowledge and management considerations for each topic. Each panel is comprised of expert practitioners and researchers from the Forest Service, universities, other land management organizations, industry and non-governmental organizations. Pre-registration is required, and each recorded session will be 90-minutes in length.

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Fuels management in mature and old-growth forests

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The USDA Forest Service Research and Development is proud to host a series of SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on topics associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and beyond. The SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions will provide big picture and synthetic looks at the current state of knowledge and management considerations for each topic. Each panel is comprised of expert practitioners and researchers from the Forest Service, universities, other land management organizations, industry and non-governmental organizations. Pre-registration is required, and each recorded session will be 90-minutes in length.

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Fuel break effectiveness: What have we learned so far?

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The USDA Forest Service Research and Development is proud to host a series of SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions intended for fire, fuels and land managers on topics associated with the Wildfire Crisis Strategy and beyond. The SCIENCEx Fire panel discussions will provide big picture and synthetic looks at the current state of knowledge and management considerations for each topic. Each panel is comprised of expert practitioners and researchers from the Forest Service, universities, other land management organizations, industry and non-governmental organizations. Pre-registration is required, and each recorded session will be 90-minutes in length.

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