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Repeat Photography and Post-Fire Ecosystem Change in SE Arizona
Date: October 26, 2021 1pm AZ/2pm MDTPresenters: Jim Malusa, University of Arizona, with an introduction by Don Falk, University of Arizona While making a vegetation map of the Chiricahua Mts in 2010, I took georeferenced photos and notes on the…
Tool for Understanding Human-Nature Relationships for Wildland Fire Management
Presenter: Chris Armatas, Research Social Scientist, Forest Service & Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research InstituteDate: September 23, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT Wildland fire is a phenomenon that impacts people and communities from the local to the national scale. These impacts are…
Can landscape fuel treatments enhance both protection and resource management objectives?
Date: September 14, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDTPresenter: Kevin Vogler, Pyrologix LLC, Missoula Montana Land management agencies in the U.S. Departments of Interior and Agriculture can potentially accomplish ecological resource management objectives using unplanned wildfires, but only if such fires do…
Land Use Planning as a Strategy for Fire Adapted Communities
Presenter: Molly Mowery, AICP, Executive Director, Community Wildfire Planning CenterDate: August 26, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT As communities across the U.S. face increasing threats from wildfire, there is also a growing interest in land use planning as a strategy to…
Fire-weather Drivers of Severity and Spread: Example from Grand Canyon
Presenter: Stephanie Mueller, Northern Arizona UniversityDate: July 29, 2021 11am AZ / 12pm MDT Fire is an essential component in restoring and maintaining a healthy forest. However, historic land use and decades of fire suppression has excluded fire from millions…
Transboundary Management & Fire Regimes of Bi-National Sky Islands
Presenter: Miguel Villarreal, Western Geographic Science Center, USGSDate: July 20, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT In this webinar I will share results of a recent study of contemporary fire regimes over a 32-year period (1985-2017) in the Madrean Sky Islands of…
Doing Work on the Land of Our Ancestors: Reserved Treaty Rights Lands Collaborations
Presenters: Greg Russell, Colorado State University; Mike Martinez, Pueblo of Tesuque; Alan Hatch, Santa Ana PuebloDate: May 6, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT This webinar considers the Reserved Treaty Rights Lands (RTRL) program and how it has been used to implement…
Restoration Treatments: Reducing Fuels and Increasing Understory Diversity
Presenters: Mike Stoddard, Ecological Restoration Institute and Matt Tuten, USDA Forest ServiceDate: Thursday April 15, 2021 11am AZ/12pm MDT This webinar will share research on forest structure and understory vegetation responses to three restoration treatments (thin/burn, burn, and control) over…
Indigenous Fire Management & the WUI
Date: March 4, 2021 12pm Mountain/1pm CentralPresenters: Chris Roos, Southern Methodist University; Chris Toya and John Galvan, Jemez Pueblo As residential development continues into flammable landscapes, wildfires increasingly threaten homes, lives, and livelihoods in the wildland–urban interface (WUI). Although this…
The Fire x Post-Fire Double Double Emergency
Date: Wednesday February 10, 2021 2:30-4pm Mountain Time This webinar brings together a panel of postfire response experts to reflect on their experiences in addressing community needs during recent large fires. The discussion highlighted important differences in fire and postfire…
Prescribed Fires & Fire Regimes
Presenter: Dr. Molly Hunter, USGS SW Climate Adaptation Science Center, Research Manager / Joint Fire Science Program, Science AdvisorDate: January 28, 2021 12pm MST Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat,…
East Jemez Landscape Futures
Date: December 15, 2020 12pm Mountain Time The East Jemez Landscape Futures (EJLF) project is a collaborative, landscape-scale approach to help guide future planning and research efforts in the severely altered landscapes of the eastern Jemez Mountains. EJLF seeks to address…
Risk Management Prioritization
Presenter: Dr Melanie Colavito, Ecological Restoration InstituteDate: December 8, 2020 12pm Mountain Time The Ecological Restoration Institute recently completed a project analyzing the use and adoption of wildfire risk assessment and fuels treatment prioritization methods and products—broadly referred to here…
Potential Operational Delineations (PODs)
Presenters: Jamie Long, Kit O’Connor, USDA Forest Service and Mike Caggiano, Colorado Forest Restoration InstituteDate: November 19, 2020 12pm Mountain Time This will be the first in our new series to feature “Science in Management Spotlight,” the goal of which…
Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American landscapes
Presenters: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University; Sean Parks, USDA Forest Service; Camille Stevens-Rumann, Colorado State UniversityDate: November 18, 2020 11am Mountain Time Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised…