Post-Fire Archives - Southwest Fire Science Consortium

Post-Wildfire Recovery Through The Principles of Engineering with Nature

by swfscWebinars February 2, 2024February 22, 2024No Comments

In a nutshell: Following a severe wildfire, recovery efforts can benefit from using “Engineering With Nature” principles to utilize existing materials on the landscape for slope stabilization, erosion control, and stream restoration. Learn about the successes and lessons learned with these techniques in Santa Clara Canyon, NM after the destructive Las Conchas Fire. Recorded on: …

Post-Fire

by swfscLearn November 13, 2023November 13, 2023No Comments

A group of people stands at a lookout point gazing into the fire footprint. They see many burned trees and the vegetation greening up.

Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Fire: One Year Later

by swfscField Trips, Story Maps October 15, 2023February 12, 2024No Comments

The Hermit’s Peak Calf Canyon Fire was a devastating event for New Mexico. Many communities were affected, and while this fire was unique, it will not be for long. Climate change and the effects of a century of fire exclusion mean that fires like this one are increasingly likely. We must understand what happened in …

A man in a baseball cap sits in a burned forest planting plants.

Increasing Post-Wildfire Planted Seedling Survival

by swfscWebinars June 27, 2023February 8, 2024No Comments

In a nutshell: Tips for planting trees after severe fire in the Southwest, we learn how microclimates, nurse plants, and biochar impact survival of seedlings. We also learn how these techniques can be scaled-up to improve replanting efforts across an entire landscape. Description: Across the southwestern United States, high-severity wildfire is resulting in increasingly large …

A smoke plume coming up on the east side of a peak.

Public Experiences and Perceptions with Wildfire and Flooding, A Case Study of the 2019 Museum Fire

by swfscWebinars April 18, 2023February 8, 2024No Comments

IN A NUTSHELL: Gain insights into public perceptions on wildfire and post-fire flooding with suggestions on how to improve information exchange. Description: The greater Flagstaff area in northern Arizona has experienced multiple wildfires in recent years that have resulted in post-wildfire flooding. These events galvanized collaborative efforts to reduce hazardous fuels on steep slopes and …

Geomorphic Recovery and Post-Fire Flooding Implications from Museum Fire

by swfscWebinars December 22, 2022February 12, 2024Comments are Disabled

Research on post-fire debris flows and geomorphology of Museum Fire, Flagstaff, AZ with implications across the Southwest.

2021 SW Wildfire Season Overview

by swfscSouthwestern Wildfire Season Overview November 29, 2022February 12, 2024No Comments

This report is the 9th in a series of annual overviews available from the Southwest Fire Science Consortium and the Ecological Restoration Institute. The goal of this overview is to provide a concise summary of the fire season and to facilitate comparison with past fires and fire seasons.

Vegetation Type Conversion

by swfscWebinars August 19, 2022February 12, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Christopher H. Guiterman, Research Scientist at the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) at the University of Colorado Boulder and NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) Date: September 21, 2022 at 12:00pm AZ / 1:00pm MDT Ecosystems of the Western United States are experiencing vegetation type conversions (VTC) in response to …

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Post-Fire Logging

by swfscWebinars August 1, 2022February 12, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Camille Stevens-Rumann, Assistant Professor of Forest and Rangeland Stewardship at Colorado State University Date: August 31, 2022 at 12:00pm AZ / 1:00pm MDT Following a wildfire, successful tree regeneration is mediated by multiple factors, from the microsite to landscape scale. This presentation demonstrates the importance of microsite conditions such as soil moisture and temperature …

Telegraph Fire-10 months Post-Fire

by swfscField Trips June 15, 2022February 12, 2024No Comments

We hosted a single day field trip that made four stops within the 2021 Telegraph Fire perimeter. The Telegraph Fire, human caused and still under investigation, started 1.5 miles southeast of Superior, Arizona on June 4, 2021 and burned 180,757 acres before being fully contained approximately one month later. The fire was primarily carried by …