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Wildlife and Fire Series

by swfscWebinars April 11, 2024April 11, 2024No Comments

This page will continue to be updated as the 3+ part webinar series continues. Check back here for more webinars recordings! Overview In January, the Southwest Fire Science Consortium, USDA Forest Service, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, and many other partners hosted a two-day workshop on the intersection of wildlife and fire. Based on the …

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Wildlife and Fire: Perspectives and Effects

by swfscWebinars March 29, 2024April 17, 2024No Comments

Webinar #1 of the Series Recorded on: April 9, 2024 Description: In January, the Southwest Fire Science Consortium, USDA Forest Service, Southwest Climate Adaptation Science Center, and many other partners hosted a two-day workshop on the intersection of wildlife and fire. Based on the needs identified in the workshop, this collaborative group is hosting a …

Wildfire, Fish, & Water Resources in the Western US

by swfscWebinars January 20, 2022February 12, 2024No Comments

Presenter: Dr. Patrick Belmont, Utah State UniversityDate: February 15, 2022 12pm Mountain Wildfire has increased 20-fold in the last 30 years in the Western U.S., partly due to climate change and partly due to forest and fire management practices. At the same time, many water resources are drying up. And fish populations throughout the western …

Evaluating Change in Bird Communities from Wildfire in the Arizona Sky Islands

by swfscWebinars May 24, 2020March 8, 2024No Comments

Date: June 17, 11am AZ/12pm MDT Presenter: Jamie Sanderlin, USDA Forest Service Rocky Mountain Research Station The avifauna within the Sky Islands of southeastern Arizona includes species found nowhere else in the United States, in part due to the availability of diverse habitats created by the mixing of Madrean and Cordilleran ecosystems. Neotropical migratory bird species …

2017 TWS Conference Symposium- Wildfire and spotted owls: It’s a burning issue (co-host)

by swfscConference, Events August 28, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Symposium September 25th: “Wildfire and spotted owls: It’s a burning issue” Study results suggest that wildfires in the western U.S. have increased in size and severity over the past several decades. This increase has raised concern over the effects of fire, particularly high-severity fire, on threatened and endangered species, including the spotted owl (Strix occidentalis). These …

Bosque del Apache NWR-Fire and Wildlife Management

by swfscField Trips, Story Maps August 28, 2017October 16, 2023No Comments

The 57,000 acre Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge is a unique landscape with uplands and water features, including a stretch of the Rio Grande River. It provides an important wintering ground for cranes and geese. Refuge staff depend upon and utilize various tools to manage the Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge for the …

December 2, 2016: Altar Valley

by swfscField Trips July 17, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Altar Valley Field Trip In November and December 2016, we co-hosted a conference in Tucson, Arizona with the Association for Fire Ecology (Beyond hazardous fuels: Managing fire for social, economic, and ecological benefits). During the conference, we arranged three separate field trips. The link below provides information from each stop on the Altar Valley Field …

March 1, 2017: Fuels treatments and ecological values in piñon-juniper woodlands: Vegetation, birds, and modeled fire behavior

by swfscEvents, Webinars February 11, 2017April 3, 2024No Comments

Date: March 1, 2017, 12pm MST Presenter: Jonathan Coop and Pat Magee Mastication and hand-thinning treatments are increasingly utilized by land managers as a means of reducing tree cover for fire hazard mitigation and other habitat objectives in piñon-juniper (P-J) woodlands. However, the effects of these treatments on ecological processes including fire, and on a wide …

High Severity Fire: Response and Uncertainty

by swfscVideos July 2, 2016April 3, 2024No Comments

Do high severity burns lead to conversion to new forest types or a shift from forests to shrublands or grasslands? How do wildlife respond to changing habitats? And, finally, what do these changes tell us about how these ecosystems will respond to climate change? We visited the sites of the 2000 Pumpkin Fire and 2003 Aspen Fire, and talked to researchers who have been studying how forests and wildlife respond to high severity burns. View the YouTube video here.

December 16, 2015: Impacts of Thinning and Burning in Spotted Owl Habitat

by swfscEvents, Webinars December 17, 2015April 3, 2023Comments are Disabled

Presenter: Quentin Hays, Eastern New Mexico University On forested lands throughout the Southwest, Mexican spotted owls (Strix occidentalis lucida) are a driver of management activities, as the current Recovery Plan (USFWS 2012) dictates forest treatment guidelines in designated owl habitat. These guidelines often prove restrictive for forest management and restoration programs, which serve to promote resiliency and …

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Wildlife and Fire Series

Wildlife and Fire: Perspectives and Effects

Wildfire, Fish, & Water Resources in the Western US

Evaluating Change in Bird Communities from Wildfire in the Arizona Sky Islands

2017 TWS Conference Symposium- Wildfire and spotted owls: It’s a burning issue (co-host)

Bosque del Apache NWR-Fire and Wildlife Management

December 2, 2016: Altar Valley

March 1, 2017: Fuels treatments and ecological values in piñon-juniper woodlands: Vegetation, birds, and modeled fire behavior

High Severity Fire: Response and Uncertainty

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