Learn about the potential uses of biological soil crust sods (biocrust sods) for degraded soils restoration and as fire and fuel breaks in desert environments. Recorded on: Wednesday, August 27, 2025 Description: Biocrust sods (portable islands of lichens, mosses, cyanobacteria, and other organisms that form the cohesive soil communities known as biological soil crusts) are …
In a nutshell: Presenters from University of Arizona discuss how wildland fire managers use decision support tools and how those weather and climate tools can be revised or reinvented to better fit managers’ needs. Recorded on: Thursday, June 26, 2025 Description: Three short presentations about recent work from the University of Arizona on understanding how …
In a nutshell: Presenters discuss the reactions and resilience of two mesic and xeric species to climate variability in Saguaro National Park to consider what their adaptive patterns may look like under hotter and drier conditions in the near future. Recorded on: Tuesday, June 17, 2025 Description: At the upper elevations of Saguaro National Park, …
Recorded on: May 20, 2025 at 11:00-12:30 (fire analysts) and May 22, 2025 (prescribed fire planning) Description: These webinars are a two part series of trainings for the Behave Fire Modeling System. These webinars go over changes in version 7 from the RMRS Fire, Fuel, and Smoke Science Program, and look forward at future releases. …
In a nutshell: Learn about commonalities and unique events within the 10 largest Southwestern fires of 2024 and hear a meteorologist explore the fire season outlook and expectations for fire weather behavior in 2025. Recorded on: Thursday, May 1, 2025 Description: Most frequent-fire forests throughout the Intermountain West have been degraded during the last 150 …
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In a nutshell: Learn about the Treatment and Wildfire Interagency Geodatabase (TWIG), a geodatabase and viewer integrating nationwide federal—and soon state-level—fuel treatment and wildfire data, and how it differs from other decision support tools and explore its applications, through research examples, for both advanced statistical analysis and use in direct management decisions. Recorded on: Thursday, …
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In a nutshell: Presenters from the Southwest Jemez Mountains CFLRP offer lessons gleaned from 15 years of cooperative work about the impact of managed and prescribed fire, forest thinning, and a collaborative approach to land management on landscape resiliency. Recorded on: Tuesday, March 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM Mountain/11:00 AM Arizona Description: Multi-party monitoring is …
In a nutshell: In a landscape with increasingly frequent severe wildfires, freshwater ecosystems are emerging as an important part of wildfire management. This presentation touches on the role of beaver dams and their analogs in creating wetlands, the nexus between freshwater systems and fire, and how this information can be utilized to enact policy change …
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In a nutshell: This presentation provides valuable insights for managers seeking to reduce wildfire risk while maintaining or enhancing habitat for black bears or sympatric species in fire prone landscapes. Recorded on: Apr 9, 2025 at 10:00AM Pacific / 11:00 AM Mountain Description: An era of fire suppression, compounded by selective harvesting of large diameter trees …
In a nutshell: Three webinars over three days explore conditions that contribute to wildfire ignitions, how preparation and response need to be tailored to fit the affected community, and how red flag warnings help reduce fire ignitions. Interdisciplinary understanding and prediction of wildfires Presenters: Mojtaba Sadegh, Boise State University; Karen Short, USDA Forest Service Understanding …
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