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January 20, 2016: Biophysical Settings Review: What it is. How it works. Why it matters

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 22, 2016April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Date: Wednesday January 20, 2016 12pm Mountain Presenter: Randy Swaty, The Nature Conservancy LANDFIRE Team All ecosystems are dynamic, changing due to growth, succession and disturbances. Modeling large landscapes in the United States requires the collective knowledge of experienced and knowledgeable vegetation and fire experts. In collaboration with hundreds of colleagues, LANDFIRE produced more than 1,000 state-and-transitions …

December 10, 2014: Working Across Fence Lines: Multi-jurisdictional planning and prescribed fire

by swfscEvents, Webinars December 11, 2014May 17, 2023Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Eytan Krasilovsky, Forest Guild Fire cuts across administrative boundaries and our restoration work needs to as well. Whether it is multijurisdictional planning or multiagency prescribed burning, working across boundaries presents a unique set of challenges. In this webinar, Eytan Krasilovksy will discuss multijurisdictional NEPA planning in the Rio Trampas watershed and this year’s multiagency …

November 2014: Wildland Fire Smoke in the Air- What does it mean to me?

by swfscEvents, Workshops December 10, 2014May 17, 2023Comments are Disabled

Thank you to all those who attended, making it a successful workshop! Due to videographer limitations, we were not able to record all of the presentations during concurrent sessions. November 6-8, 2014 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Program available here Click here to watch the associated webinar: “Smoke Forecasting Tools: A Case Study in Air Quality” …

October 22, 2014: Smoke Forecasting Tools: A Case Study in Air Quality Response

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 25, 2014April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Ron Sherron, U.S. Forest Service This webinar was recommended for participants in the “Wildland fire smoke in the air- What does it mean to ME?” workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico November 6-8, 2014. Watch a recording of this webinar in various formats.

October 2014: Jemez Mountains

by swfscEvents, Field Trips November 14, 2014June 14, 2023Comments are Disabled

We put together a field trip for the JFSP governing board to tour the Jemez Mountains area with a focus on understanding/studying the fires that occurred there over several decades. The field trip materials below are listed in order of each place we stopped. We also have provided a virtual field trip with photos of …

August 27, 2014: A panel perspective on regeneration in Southwest pine forests after high severity wildfire

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 4, 2014April 3, 2024Comments are Disabled

Panelists: Pete Fulé – Northern Arizona University, Collin Haffey – USGS Jemez Field Station, José Iniguez and Suzanne Owen – USFS Rocky Mountain Research Station, Jim Youtz – USFS Southwestern Region, Joy Mast – Carthage College The Southwest Fire Science Consortium is hosting a panel discussion on regeneration of pine forests after high severity wildfires. …

June 11, 2014: People, fire, and insects: Three centuries of disturbance interactions along an ecological gradient of the Pinaleño Mountains, Arizona

by swfscEvents, Webinars June 16, 2014May 17, 2023Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Kit O’Connor, University of Arizona In the Pinaleño Mountains of Southeast Arizona, a series of high-severity insect outbreaks and fires in recent decades appear to be unprecedented in the historical record. These disturbances raise concerns about forest resilience and long-term sustainability of one of the most ecologically diverse landscapes in the southwest. We used …

April 16, 2014: The southwest fire season: 2013 overview and 2014 outlook

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 21, 2014April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenters: Zander Evans (Forest Guild) and Chuck Maxwell (Predictive Services) This webinar provided an overview of the eight largest fires in the Southwest during 2013 based on the recent report from ERI and SWFSC. The webinar included summaries of forest types and burn severities for each of the eight fires. In addition, Chuck Maxwell, meteorologist …

September 25, 2013: How will climate change and treatments affect future forests? Testing alternatives with the Climate-FVS model

by swfscEvents, Webinars October 10, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Pete Fulè, Professor, Northern Arizona University Under current conditions, large, severe wildfires are a fact of life in southwestern ponderosa pine forests. What will burned systems look like over the coming decades under warming climate? Do management treatments make a lasting difference or will climate override their effects? We applied the relatively new feature …

April 25, 2013: Impacts of fire hazard assessment and fuel reduction priorities on mega-fire outcomes: A hypothetical test using the Wallow Fire in Arizona

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 6, 2013April 5, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Amy Waltz, Program Director of Science Delivery, Ecological Restoration Institute Uncharacteristically large and severe wildfires, or mega-fires, are occurring with increasing frequency over the last decades in the western United States. The 2011 Wallow Fire, a 538,049-acre (217,740-hectare) fire in the conifer forests of eastern Arizona, provided the opportunity to compare the effectiveness of …