Fire Regimes & Fire History Archives - Page 6 of 6 - Southwest Fire Science Consortium

March 18, 2012: Fire Regime Condition Class Mapping Tool

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenters: Steve Barrett & Jeff Jones (NIFTT University of Idaho) The FRCC Mapping Tool quantifies the departure of vegetation conditions and fire regimes from a set of reference conditions representing the historical range of variation. The tool, which operates from an ArcGIS platform, derives several metrics of departure (e.g., vegetation composition and structure, fire severity, …

March 2010: Ecological Impact of Mastication

by swfscEvents, Webinars July 5, 2012February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Mike Battaglia (USFS RMRS) presented results from the Joint Fire Science Project on the Ecological Impact of Mastication. Mike reported on the impact of mastication on the chemical and physical conditions of the forest floor, vegetation regrowth, and fuel development. The study included 18 sites across four ecosystems of the southern Rocky Mountains and the …

June 2011: Santa Fe Watershed Forum and Field Trip

by swfscEvents, Field Trips July 1, 2011February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

A large and diverse group of collaborators has successfully initiated restoration of ponderosa pine forests in the Santa Fe municipal watershed, which provides up to 50% of Santa Fe’s water. Follow-up prescribed fire treatments within sight of the state capital building have been successful in part due to continuing outreach to maintain high levels of …

May 18, 2011: Fuels Treatment Practices for Mixed Conifer Forests in the Southwest

by swfscEvents, Webinars May 14, 2011April 8, 2024Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Alexander Evans (Forest Guild) The webinar covered the guide’s definition of mixed conifer, past land use and management activities, fire regimes and historic conditions, and impact of altered fire regimes in mixed conifer forests of the southwest. Since Euro-American settlement, many mixed conifer forests have become more homogeneous and can therefore facilitate larger, higher-severity …

April 20, 2011: Southwest Climate Change Initiative

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 1, 2011February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Marcos Robles of the The Nature Conservancy presented information from the Southwest Climate Change Initiative. The Initiative is a collaborative effort started by The Nature Conservancy in 2008 to provide climate science information to natural resource managers in Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Utah so that they can begin responding to climate change. First, Marcos …

March 2011: Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop

by swfscEvents, Workshops March 31, 2011February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Facilitated discussions, presentations, and workshops on restoration and fuels treatments in southwestern vegetation types. Download Agenda/Schedule here Download presentations here: Near Misses… – Alex Viktora Fuels Management… – Robin Wills

Protecting Old Trees from Prescribed Burning

by swfscScience Synthesis February 1, 2011April 8, 2024No Comments

View working paper. Working Paper 24, February 2011, Written by Dave Egan