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Resources for predicting and mitigating smoke impacts of wildland fires

by swfscFactsheet August 28, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

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 …

Smoke impacts, air resource advisors and you!

by swfscVideos August 20, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

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.

August 29, 2018: The full community costs of wildfire

by swfscEvents, Webinars August 2, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: August 29, 2018 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Kimiko Barrett, Headwaters Economics As wildfires increase in size and severity, the costs to protect homes and lives similarly rise. Yet protecting communities represents a relatively small portion of the total costs of a wildfire—other short- and long-term impacts yield a variety of costs that often go …

November 27-29, 2018: Working together- Fire managers & archaeologists

by swfscEvents, Workshops June 26, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Thank you to all who attended for helping us make this workshop a success! November 27th consisted of a one-day workshop on fire effects to archaeological resources November 28-29th was an interactive workshop and covered the following topics: Importance of fire on the landscape and the importance of protecting cultural resources within that context How …

2017 SW Wildfire Season Overview

by swfscSouthwestern Wildfire Season Overview June 14, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

2017 Fire Season: An Overview – Southwestern U.S. by Michael Lynch and Alexander Evans.

May 9, 2018: BehavePlus updates and changes

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 30, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Wednesday, May 9, 2018 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenters: Faith Ann Heinsch, S&K Global Solutions, RMRS Missoula Fire Lab In the webinar, Faith Ann… briefly described major changes from version 5 to version 6 showed sample Runs demonstrating these changes provided suggestions for calculating surface fire behavior using BehavePlus v6 described how changes in BehavePlus affect …

Mormon Fire Staff Ride- Restoring Wildfire to the Landscape

by swfscEvents, Story Maps April 24, 2018October 16, 2023No Comments

The purpose of the Mormon Fire Staff Ride is to encourage the use of natural ignition fires as a forest management tool by creating a peer-learning space for line officers to explore implementation decisions and challenges. By using the story map, we hope to strengthen line officers’ preparedness and confidence around the use of natural ignitions and …

April 26, 2018: Southwest Fire Season 2017 Overview and 2018 Outlook

by swfscEvents, Webinars April 6, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: Thursday April 26, 2018 12pm MDT (11am AZ) Presenters: Zander Evans, Forest Stewards Guild and Rich Naden, Fire Weather Meteorologist, Southwest Coordination Center The purpose of this webinar was to review 2017 fires and look ahead toward conditions for 2018. Dr. Zander Evans presented an overview of the largest fires in the Southwest during 2017. He …

January 10, 2018: The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire

by swfscEvents, Webinars January 5, 2018March 14, 2024No Comments

The Wildfire Within: Firefighter perspectives on gender and leadership in wildland fire Date: January 10, 2018 12pm Mountain Presenter: Rachel Reimer, Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC, Canada This project utilized a feminist appreciative approach to Action Research to facilitate a conversation about gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS). The research question was, “How …

December 6, 2017: Federal fire managers’ perceptions of the importance, scarcity & substitutability of suppression resources

by swfscEvents, Webinars November 21, 2017March 14, 2024No Comments

Date: December 6, 2017 12pm Mountain Presenters: Crystal Stonesifer, USDA Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Research Station, Human Dimensions A frequent prerequisite for meeting fire management objectives is the availability of key suppression resources, prepositioned for timely response. In the United States, multi-jurisdictional fire suppression demand is met by a national-scale pool of suppression resources that come from …

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Resources for predicting and mitigating smoke impacts of wildland fires

Smoke impacts, air resource advisors and you!

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