Fuels & Fuel Treatments
This webinar, led by LANDFIRE Fire Ecologist Kori Blankenship, provides an introduction to LANDFIRE BpS models and invites your participation in the current BpS review opportunities. Intermountain Basin Big Sagebrush Shrubland and Intermountain Basin Big Sagebrush Steppe ecosystems cover over 90 million acres in the western U.S. and provide critical habitat for the greater sage-grouse. Improving the models for these ecosystems helps LANDFIRE more accurately map fire regimes and vegetation departure, and enables us to provide a more current and robust product for use in land management planning activities.
This webinar presents the Unmanned Aerial Systems (Drones) Resource Management Technologies – Fuel Load and Noxious Weeds Program, which can map, identify, treat, quantify and measure fuel loads and noxious weeds utilizing hyperspectral and LiDAR sensors combined with drone technologies. Chris Wilson of Wilson Herbicide, partnered with Maser Consulting, presents.
Disclaimer: Hosting this webinar does not constitute an endorsement by the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange of Wilson Herbicide or Maser Consulting and the Great Basin Fire Science Exchange has not investigated claims made by any advertiser.
The BLM Targeted Grazing Stakeholder Workshop took place on October 6, 2016 at the Nugget Hotel in Sparks, NV. The following videos and documents are available from the workshop:
Meeting presentations (pdfs)
- Elko District targeted grazing demonstration plots, Kathryn Dyer, BLM
- Targeted grazing demonstration areas, Mike Pellant, BLM
- Secretarial Order 3336: an integrated rangeland fire management strategy, Mike Haske, BLM
- Targeted grazing and SO 3336, Jeff Rose, BLM
- Grazing for fire management, Gregg Simonds, Open Range Consulting
- Livestock fuels reduction, Mike Pellant, BLM
- Standardized monitoring and assessment protocols, Patrick Clark, USDA ARS
In this webinar, Steve Bunting, University of Idaho, shares his research on changes in fuels across the western juniper/PJ woodland successional gradient and implications for effective use of fire treatments. There will be 20 minutes for discussion about management implications.
Effects of fire and mechanical treatments on plants and wildlife in western juniper and PJ woodlands
In this webinar, Rick Miller, Oregon State University, shares his research on how fire and mechanical treatments effect plant and wildlife communities in western juniper and pinyon-juniper woodlands. The last 20 minutes was reserved for a discussion about management implications. Definitions of terms used in this webinar.
In this webinar, Dr. Gene Schupp, Plant Ecologist, Utah State University, presents patterns of native and exotic understory growth during the first three years following prescribed fire, mechanical, Tebuthiuron, and Imazipic treatments.
In this webinar, Steve Knick, USGS Forest and Rangeland Ecosystem Science Center, shares his research on changes within bird communities living in ecotone regions where land management treatments have been conducted to reduce woodland expansion into sagebrush habitats.
In this webinar, April Hulet, Brigham Young University, discusses recent findings from her and Dr. Bruce Roundy’s latest research regarding digital imagery and land cover classifications for assessing rangeland health and fuel loads in Great Basin pinyon and juniper woodlands.
In this webinar, Dr. Bruce Roundy, Rangeland Ecologist, Brigham Young University, shares his latest research findings on the role of tree dominance in understory response to pinyon-juniper fuel control treatments.
In this webinar, Jason Williams, Hydrologist, USDA-ARS Northwest Watershed Research Center, presents his latest research findings on hydrologic response to fuels treatments on woodland encroached sagebrush steppe. This research is part of the Sagebrush Steppe Treatment Evaluation Project.