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Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American landscapes

by swfscWebinars October 23, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Presenters: Jonathan Coop, Western Colorado University; Sean Parks, USDA Forest Service; Camille Stevens-Rumann, Colorado State UniversityDate: November 18, 2020 11am Mountain Time Changing disturbance regimes and climate can overcome forest ecosystem resilience. Following high-severity fire, forest recovery may be compromised by lack of tree seed sources, warmer and drier postfire climate, or short-interval reburning. A …

Good Fire

by swfscPodcasts September 10, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

EPISODE SUMMARY Living with fire means different things to different people. In this episode Cally and Collin talk with Jeremy Bailey and Pepe Iniguez about how prescribed fire and managed fire might help us create a pathway that leads us living with fire. We talk about some of the barriers and some interesting marketing strategies. …

Resilience in National Forest Planning

by swfscWebinars August 19, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

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 forestlands. But what does resilience mean, what does it take to plan for resilient landscapes, …

Watersheds and Waterfunds

by swfscPodcasts July 28, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Hot and Dry Podcast Series EPISODE SUMMARY Cally and Collin talk with Laura McCarthy and Bill Armstrong about how folks pulled together to restore the forest in the municipal watershed of Santa Fe, NM. From there Laura went on to start the Rio Grande Water Fund which covers 7 million acres in New Mexico. In …

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After the Fire: Learning from Burned Areas in the Southwest

by swfscStory Maps June 10, 2020October 16, 2023No Comments

In the spring of 2019, several partners teamed up with the Burned Area Learning Network to visit coordinate a series of three field trips across the Southwest. Scientists, researchers, and land managers came together to visit burned areas of the Boundary Fire (2017) and Pumpkin Fire (2000) in Arizona, the Las Conchas Fire (2011) in …

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 …

Fire Moss: Natural colonization and post-fire rehabilitation trials

by swfscFactsheet April 14, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Fire Moss: Natural colonization and post-fire rehabilitation trials by Henry Grover, Northern Arizona University

Oct 23, 2019: Large-scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change

by swfscEvents, Webinars September 28, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

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 an urgent need to restore forests across the western United States. To address this need, …

Burning in the Black Range- Using prescribed fire on the Gila National Forest

by swfscVideos August 14, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

A brief look at how the Black Range of the Gila National Forest goes about putting down thousands of acres of prescribed fire. See how the District works in a collaborative and productive manner while working within the multiple-use framework to include grazing, wildlife, recreation, and community outreach. Supported by science, the agency looks to keep fire on the landscape. View the YouTube video here.

A game changer: Prescribed fire and Mexican spotted owls

by swfscVideos June 10, 2019March 9, 2024No Comments

In the fall of 2018, the Coconino National Forest, in partnership with the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, conducted prescribed fires in Mexican spotted owl protected activity centers (PACs). This video describes this project. View the YouTube video here.

Tag: Restoration

Wildfire-Driven Forest Conversion in Western North American landscapes

Good Fire

Resilience in National Forest Planning

Watersheds and Waterfunds

After the Fire: Learning from Burned Areas in the Southwest

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

Fire Moss: Natural colonization and post-fire rehabilitation trials

Oct 23, 2019: Large-scale forest restoration stabilizes carbon under climate change

Burning in the Black Range- Using prescribed fire on the Gila National Forest

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