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May 5, 2020: Adaptation strategies for climate and fire in the Southwest

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 22, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

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 impacts. The strategies that we have developed fit neatly into an existing climate adaptation framework …

Southwest Fire Season 2019 Overview and 2020 Outlook

by swfscWebinars April 8, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

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 for 2020. Dr. Zander Evans will present an overview of the largest fires in the …

January 22, 2020: PODs in Strategic Wildfire Risk Planning: applications, lessons learned, and future directions

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 6, 2020March 9, 2024No Comments

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, political, and ecological ramifications of wildfire response and eventual fire outcomes are not limited to …

Oct 9, 2019: Southwest LANDFIRE update (LF GeoArea: NV, UT, AZ, NM, CO, CA)

by swfscEvents, Webinars June 8, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

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 Blankenship of The Nature Conservancy’s LF team will review improvements to LF’s newest product offerings …

May 22, 2019: Do trends in climate influence the increase in high-severity wildfire in the southwestern US from 1984 to 2015?

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 6, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Stephanie Mueller, Northern Arizona University Date: May 22, 2019 12pm Mountain Daylight Time (11am AZ time) Over the last 30 years, in woodland and forested ecosystems across the southwestern US, there has been an increasing trend in fire activity. Altered land use practices and more recent changes in precipitation patterns and warmer temperatures are …

December 12, 2018: Use of small unmanned aircraft on wildfire incidents

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 25, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Mike Fontenot, Sky Fire Services & Fairmount Fire PD Date: December 12, 2018 12pm Mountain Unmanned Aircraft, commonly called “Drones,” are being used more and more for public safety, research, etc. Falling prices, rising capabilities, and a favorable regulatory framework are all fueling this growth. Let’s look at actual, real-world, Wildfire missions where these aircraft are …

October 10, 2018: Modeling and mapping the potential for high severity fire in the western U.S.

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 19, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Sean Parks, Research Ecologist, Aldo Leopold Wilderness Research Institute, Rocky Mountain Research Station, US Forest Service Date: October 10, 2018 11am AZ/12pm MDT The ecological effects of wildland fire – also termed the fire severity – are often highly heterogeneous in space and time. This heterogeneity is a result of spatial variability in factors …

September 26, 2018: Use and benefits of NASA’s RECOVER for post-fire decision support

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 18, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Wednesday, September 26, 2018 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenters: William Toombs and Keith Weber, GIS Training and Research Center, Idaho State University Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive …

Resources for predicting and mitigating smoke impacts of wildland fires

by swfscFactsheet August 28, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Resources for predicting and mitigating smoke impacts of wildland fires PDF. Working Paper 40, August 2018, by Caleb Stotts, Pete Lahm, and Claudia Standish Factsheet also available here. Fact Sheet, August 2018, by Caleb Stotts, Pete Lahm, and Claudia Standish Fire managers use prescribed fire and some wildfires to meet resource management objectives, like restoring and maintaining …

May 9, 2018: BehavePlus updates and changes

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 30, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenters: Faith Ann Heinsch, S&K Global Solutions, RMRS Missoula Fire Lab In the webinar, Faith Ann… briefly described major changes from version 5 to version 6 showed sample Runs demonstrating these changes provided suggestions for calculating surface fire behavior using BehavePlus v6 described how changes in BehavePlus affect …