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Presenters: Savannah D’Evelyn, Postdoctoral Fellow with the University of Washington, Department of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences and Ed Smith, Terrestrial forest Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy’s California Program. Date: July 19, 2022 11am AZ / 12pm MDT Increasing wildfire size and severity across the western United States has created an environmental and social crisis …
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Date: Wednesday, August 19, 2020 from 12-1:30pm MDT/11am-12:30pm AZ Presenters: Listed below As COVID-19 cases and wildland fire activity increase across the country, wildland fire personnel are looking for ways to quickly identify cases and prevent the spread of the disease on the fireline. The Southwest Fire Consortium hosted a webinar sharing information about the …
Released May 26, 2020 as part of the Hot and Dry Podcast Series by Cally Carswell and Collin Haffey, supported by the Southwest Fire Science Consortium. Cally and Collin talk with experts on how COVID-19 is changing the way we respond to fires across the Southwest and the US. The virus has umm… infected… every …
In the Southwest, most ecosystems are adapted to some form of wildland fire. Smoke, the major byproduct of fire, is a real health issue, and finding ways to deal with this reality is discussed by several federal employees who work in land management.
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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 …
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Air Resource Advisors provide a vast array of tools and products to predict and communicate smoke impacts during wildfires. Having a resource solely dedicated to smoke management and effective messaging improves both internal and external communication. View the video here.
Date: November 14, 2017 12pm Mountain Presenters: Stacey Frederick, Coordinator, California Fire Science Consortium The importance of smoke has been well-observed by managers through frequent concerns expressed over smoke. Public perceptions of fuel reduction techniques, with a particular emphasis on using prescribed fire as a management tool, have been under study for almost a decade. However, research …
Presenter: Mary Lata, USFS Fire Ecologist The Ecology of Smoke is something that has been considered by very few in the United States, despite extensive and intensive interest and research into frequent fire systems. This presentation will review some of the existing science; present some recent data on smoke and seedling emergence in species native to …
