Webinars Archives - Southwest Fire Science Consortium

A Western Apache farm site in ponderosa pine forests in eastern Arizona in 1940. Farm sites such as this were the focus of Western Apache land-use and fire management for centuries. Lee Russell/Library of Congress

Tree-rings reveal the legacy of Indigenous cultural burning in the Southwest USA

by swfscUpcoming Webinars, Webinars October 8, 2025October 8, 2025No Comments

In a nutshell: In this webinar, Dr. Christopher Roos and colleagues explore how Indigenous peoples across the Southwest shaped fire regimes through diverse cultural practices and land uses. Using extensive tree-ring fire records, they demonstrate that Indigenous influence on fire was widespread and consistent across foraging, pastoral, and farming societies—offering new perspectives for research and …

2023 Overview and 2024 Outlook Webinar Cover Photo

A Science-Management Partnership to Reduce Human-Caused Large Wildfires in the Southwest: Lessons Learned and Pathways Forward

by swfscUpcoming Webinars, Webinars September 19, 2025September 19, 2025No Comments

In a nutshell: This webinar will offer lessons learned from an assortment of Southwest-based studies on the social and ecological factors that drive human-caused wildfires and offer pathways forward for research findings to be implemented to reduce human ignitions in the future. Date and Time: Wednesday, October 15, 2025 at 11:00AM AZ / 12:00PM MT …

Image for SWFSC webinar on biocrusts in Sonoran and Mojave Deserts

Stop, Drop, and Roll Out the Biocrust Sods: Targeting the Grass-Fire Cycle Through Soil-Surface Rehabilitation

by swfscUpcoming Webinars, Webinars July 8, 2025September 4, 2025No Comments

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 …

How do Fire Managers use Information?: Developing Practical and Usable Weather and Climate Information for Southwest Wildfire Management

by swfscWebinars June 10, 2025July 4, 2025No Comments

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 …

On the Edge: Tree Growth and Resilience of Aspen and Chihuahua Pine in Saguaro National Park

by swfscWebinars May 23, 2025July 1, 2025No Comments

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, …

Webinar announcement on Behave7 training

The Behave7 Fire Modeling System is here!

by swfscUpcoming Webinars, Webinars May 6, 2025May 28, 2025No Comments

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. …

Fire in the Southwest: Fire season 2024 overview and 2025 outlook

by swfscUpcoming Webinars, Webinars April 1, 2025May 23, 2025No Comments

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 …

Dark green forest with ReSHAPE and SWERI logos in print on top.

ReSHAPE: Reshaping wildfire and fuels reduction information

by swfscWebinars March 19, 2025May 26, 2025No Comments

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, …

Two photos of the same forest, one prior to treatment and one after thinning treatment

A Long-Term View of Collaborative Forest Management: The 15-Year Southwest Jemez CFLRP Report

by swfscWebinars March 3, 2025May 5, 2025No Comments

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 …

Pre- and Post-Fire Impacts of Beaver Dams and Beaver Dam Analogs

by swfscWebinars February 21, 2025April 30, 2025No Comments

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 …