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Policy Change & Wildland Fire Management
Date: October 22, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDTPresenter: Jesse Young, Post-Doctoral Scholar, Northern Arizona University In 2009, new guidance for wildland fire management in the United States expanded the range of strategic options for managers working to reduce the threat of…
Resilience in National Forest Planning
Presenter: Jesse Abrams, University of Georgia Date: September 9, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Recent policies including the Cohesive Strategy and the 2012 NFMA planning rule emphasize restoration of landscape resilience as a way forward for living with fire on national…
Collaborative Planning for Fire-Adapted Communities
Presenter: Dr. Fermin Alcasena Date: August 26, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Despite the growing number of extreme fires occurring in wildland-urban interface areas of the western US, the development of wildfire risk reduction programs aimed at creating fire-adapted communities has…
COVID-19 and Wildfire Lessons Learned
Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 from 12-1:30pm MDT/11am-12:30pm AZ Presenters: Listed below As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the…
Evaluating Change in Bird Communities from Wildfire in the Arizona Sky Islands
Date: June 17, 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Jamie Sanderlin, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station The avifauna within the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona includes species found nowhere else in the United States, in part due to the availability of…
May 5, 2020: Adaptation strategies for climate and fire in the Southwest
Presenters: Martha Sample and Andi Thode, Northern Arizona UniversityDate: May 5, 2020 12pm AZ/1pm MDT We will be presenting recent work on a Fire-Climate Adaptation ‘menu’ of strategies and approaches that can be used to align fire-specific management goals with climate…
Southwest Fire Season 2019 Overview and 2020 Outlook
Date: April 29, 2020 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenters: Michael Lynch and Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Rich Naden, Fire Weather Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center The purpose of this webinar is to review 2019 fires and look ahead toward conditions…
March 4, 2020: Building a prescribed fire program on the Colorado Front Range: The role of landowner Engagement
Presenter: Katie McGrath, Colorado State University Date: March 4, 2020 12pm MST Despite recognition of the value of prescribed fire in scientific literature and policy, a number of factors impede its widespread implementation in the United States. Social acceptance of prescribed…
February 19, 2020: A spatial analysis of factors influencing structure loss and survival resulting from the 2018 Camp Fire in Paradise, California
Date: February 19, 12pm Mountain Time Presenter: Dr. Austin Troy, University of Colorado Denver This presentation summarizes recent research conducted on patterns of property loss during the Camp Fire in Paradise, CA. Using logistic regression of several inspection data sets,…
January 22, 2020: PODs in Strategic Wildfire Risk Planning: applications, lessons learned, and future directions
Presenter: C.D. O’Connor, Ecologist, Rocky Mountain Research Station Human Dimensions Program Date: January 22, 2020 12pm Mountain Time Wildfire is one of the most contentious subjects affecting land managers, land owners, and the public. As a contagious process, the social,…
Nov 13, 2019: Assessment of Community Wildfire Protection Plans in Arizona and the Western U.S.
Presenter: Melanie Colavito, Ecological Restoration Institute, Northern Arizona University Date: November 13, 2019 12pm MST One mechanism with which communities-at-risk from wildfire have addressed planning and adaptation to wildfire are Community Wildfire Protection Plans (CWPPs), which were created as part…
Oct 23, 2019: Large-scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change
Presenter: Lisa McCauley, The Nature Conservancy Date: October 23, 2019 11am AZ/12pm MDT Higher tree density, more fuels, and a warmer, drier climate have caused an increase in the frequency, size, and severity of wildfires in western U.S. forests. There is…
Oct 16, 2019: Contributions of fire refugia to resilient ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest landscapes
Presenter: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University Date: October 16, 2019 11am AZ/12pm MDT In western North America, ponderosa pine and dry mixed-conifer forest types appear increasingly vulnerable to wildfire-catalyzed conversion to alternate and non-forest vegetation types. However, unburned or only…
Oct 9, 2019: Southwest LANDFIRE update (LF GeoArea: NV, UT, AZ, NM, CO, CA)
Presenters: Jim Smith and Kori Blankenship, The Nature Conservancy Date: October 9, 2019 12pm This webinar will focus on LANDFIRE Remap products in LF’s Southwest GeoArea: Nevada, Utah, and Arizona, and sections of New Mexico, Colorado, and California. Presenters Jim Smith and Kori…
May 30, 2019: Sonoran FireAdapt Project
Presenter: Clare Aslan, Northern Arizona University Date: May 30, 2019 1-3pm AZ (2-4pm MDT) Arizona’s Sonoran Desert is home to unique species, sites of immense cultural and historical value, and more than 5 million people. This sensitive region is also threatened by a…