The Western Klamath Restoration Partnership (WKRP), with funding from the North Coast Resource Partnership, gathered a talented team of researchers to develop spatial models to understand historical fire dynamics and impacts of management and reburning on future landscapes, integrating both indigenous fire management and western science. The goal is to create a shared vision for managing fire across this diverse landscape based on a clear understanding of fire processes and the effects of various management actions on communities, ecosystems, and water and carbon cycling and storage.

The project will both facilitate immediate implementation of a collaborative fire-planning framework (Potential Wildfire Operational Delineations, or PODs) for the entire North Coast Resource Partnership area, and cooperatively develop a regionally specific and culturally grounded wildfire model to assess landscape condition under different management scenarios (REBURN) for the 1.2 million acre WKRP planning area.

On Tuesday November 10th, join Will Harling (Mid Klamath Watershed Council), Frank Lake (USFS Research Ecologist) and Skye Greenler (Oregon State University) to discuss how the collaboration developed; understand how the project can help build future climate and wildfire resilient ecosystems and communities; and share your questions, interests, and insights about how this project can best serve the region.

On Thursday November 12th, join Paul Hessburg (USFS Research Ecologist), Susan Prichard (University of Washington), and Chris Dunn (Oregon State University) to learn more about the tools this project will be using; understand the collaborative processes that will help build these tools; and share your experiences and knowledge about how the models can be best developed to reflect the unique landscape of the Klamath Mountains.