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Name: 'Pyrogeography' Across Western North America: How climate Has Affected Fire Regimes and Fire History Across the West, and Where We May Be Going the Future
Description: Peter Brown, Director of Rocky Mountain Tree Ring Research, will present a webinar on September 27, 1 PM MDT. A recent surge of scientific knowledge and interest in fire climatology derives from two factors: increasing understanding of broad-scale...
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Name: A Synthesis of the Science on Forests and Carbon for U.S. Forests
Description: Dr. Mike Ryan, USDA Forest Service Research Forest Ecologist, presented a scientific synthesis of the forest carbon cycle. The synthesis covers the entire US, but Dr. Ryan focused on the western US for this webinar. Forests play a key role in the...
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Name: An Overview of the Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) Project and Field-Based Burn Severity Assessment
Description: Monitoring Trends in Burn Severity (MTBS) is a multi-year, interagency project designed to consistently map the location, extent and associated burn severity of large fires occurring on all lands of the United States from 1984 to present. The suite of...
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Name: Carbon and Water Balances of Southwestern Ponderosa Pine Forests
Description: In this webinar Dr. Thomas Kolb will summarize the key findings of a six-year study of impacts of intense fire and fuel-reduction thinning on the carbon and water balances of ponderosa pine forests in Arizona. The results should be of interest to fire...
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Name: Climate Change and Fire Projections in the West: Why the Science Should Matter to Managers
Description: This webinar examines the relationship between climate and pre-settlement fire patterns, using fire history to gain insight into future fire projections. The main topics discussed include the nature of recent variability in areas burned by fire, how...
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Name: Climate Change and Stress Complexes in Forests of Western North America
Description: Stress complexes in Western forests are affected by a warmer climate, that is the interaction of fire, drought, insects, etc. can alter the vigor of forest ecosystems and potentially change their structure and function. This webinar will cover the...
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Name: Development of The Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System
Description: The web-based Interagency Fuels Treatment Decision Support System (IFT-DSS) was designed to provide fire and fuels managers with a single software solution to manage the many data, software applications, and tools available for fuels treatment...
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Name: Emissions, Energy Returns, and Economics of Utilizing Forest Residues for Thermal Energy Compared to Disposal by Pile Burning
Description: Greg Jones presented a webinar on using biomass for bioenergy. The greenhouse gas and particulate matter emissions from delivering and burning forest treatment residue biomass in a boiler for thermal energy are compared with onsite disposal by...
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Name: Fire Modeling in the Wildland Fire Decision Support System - WFDSS
Description: Mediasite video presentation given by Sam Amato, (National Fire Decision Support Center) at the 2011 Southwest Interagency Fuels Workshop, Flagstaff, AZ on March 10, 2011. The Wildland Fire Decision Support System (WFDSS) model uses different fire...
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Name: Fuel Treatment Effectiveness on the 2011 Wallow Fire
Description: The Wallow Fire was discovered at 1330 on May 29, 2011 at a remote location on the Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest in eastern Arizona. Initial response to the fire was immediate and aggressive. Extremely dry, windy conditions contributed to rapid...
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