Residents in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) can play an important role in reducing wildfire’s negative effects by performing wildfire risk mitigation on their property. This report offers insight into the wildfire risk mitigation activities and...
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June 3, 2019 (All day) to June 7, 2019 (All day)
6th Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference
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July 23, 2019 (All day) to July 25, 2019 (All day)
Transforming Approaches to Forests and Forestry through Traditional and Local Knowledges Conference
August 21, 2019 (All day) to August 23, 2019 (All day)
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The Fire and Fire Surrogates Study (FFS) assessed the effects of fire and fire surrogate fuel treatments, specifically, quantifying the costs and ecological consequences of alternative fire and fire surrogate restorative treatments in a number of forest types and conditions across the US.
FireWorks is an educational program about the science of wildland fire, designed for students in grades 1-12. The FireWorks program consists of a curriculum and a trunk of materials, including laboratory equipment, specimens, CDs, books, and kits of specialized materials for teachers. Content focuses on the physical science of fire behavior, human influences on fire, and fire ecology.
IFIRE University of Idaho Combustion Lab research project quantifying the biogeoscientific and societal impacts of extreme wildland fires from the regional to community scales in the US northern Rockies.
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Person: Meldrum, Brenkert-Smith, Wilson, Champ, Barth, Boag
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Residents in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) can play an important role in reducing wildfire’s negative effects by performing wildfire risk mitigation on their property. This report offers insight into the wildfire risk mitigation activities and...
Person: Brenkert-Smith, Meldrum, Wilson, Champ, Barth, Boag
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Residents in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) can play an important role in reducing wildfire’s negative effects by performing wildfire risk mitigation on their property. This report offers insight into the wildfire risk mitigation activities and...
Person: Meldrum, Brenkert-Smith, Wilson, Champ, Barth, Boag
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Over the past several decades, wildfire has become an increasingly costly and destructive natural hazard as a result of a combination of ecological and social factors, including climate change, decades of wildfire suppression on the landscape, and...
Person: Campbell, Svendsen, Sonti, Hines, Maddox, Fishler, Mockrin, Stewart
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Resilience has become a common goal for science-based natural resource management, particularly in the context of changing climate and disturbance regimes. Integrating varying perspectives and definitions of resilience is a complex and often...
Person: Higuera, Metcalf, Miller, Buma, McWethy, Metcalf, Ratajczak, Nelson, Chaffin, Stedman, McCaffrey, Schoennagel, Harvey, Hood, Schultz, Black, Campbell, Haggerty, Keane, Krawchuk, Kulig, Rafferty, Virapongse
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
A significant amount of research has examined what motivates people living in the WUI to mitigate their wildfire risk, but drawing over-arching conclusions is difficult given the myriad of ways researchers have conceptualized and operationalized...
Person: Rapp
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Federal land managers in the US can be informed with quantitative assessments of the social conditions of the populations affected by wildfires originating on their administered lands in order to incorporate and adapt their management strategy to...
Person: Palaiologou, Ager, Nielsen-Pincus, Evers, Day
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
The United States' National Cohesive Wildfire Management Strategy aims to achieve greater social and ecological resilience to wildfire. It also raises the question: cohesive for whom and for what purpose? In this article, we address the wildfire...
Person: Steelman, Nowell
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Fire regimes are now recognized as the product of social processes whereby fire on any landscape is the product of human-generated drivers: climate change, historical patterns of vegetation manipulation, invasive species, active fire suppression,...
Person: Scheller, Kretchun, Hawbaker, Henne
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Mechanisms underlying the loss of ecological resilience and a shift to an alternate regime with lower ecosystem service provisioning continues to be a leading debate in ecology, particularly in cases where evidence points to human actions and decision-...
Person: Twidwell, Wonkka, Wang, Grant, Allen, Fuhlendorf, Garmestani, Angeler, Taylor, Kreuter, Rogers
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Proposals for special sessions, workshops and trainings, oral and poster presentations, fire circles, and attached meetings are now being accepted.
Call for Special Sessions ~ Deadline April 1, 2019
Call for Workshops, Trainings, and Courses ~ Deadline April 1, 2019
Call for Oral and Poster Presentations ~ Deadline August 1, 2019 for Oral Presentations and August 30, 2019 for Poster Presentations
Call for Fire Circles ~ Deadline August 1, 2019
Call for Attached Meetings ~ Deadline August 30, 2019
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Minnesota Wildfire Academy 2019
The Minnesota Wildfire Academy, Itasca Community College (ICC)
June 3, 2019 (All day) to June 7, 2019 (All day)
The Minnesota Incident Command System (MNICS) uses the Incident Command System (ICS) to coordinate the weeklong Wildfire Academy. Under the ICS structure, the MNICS Incident Management Team (IMT) works closely with 2019 Minnesota Wildfire Academy...
6th Fire in Eastern Oak Forests Conference
Penn Stater Hotel and Conference Center
July 23, 2019 (All day) to July 25, 2019 (All day)
Partners: Oak Woodlands & Forests Fire Consortium, Consortium of Appalachian Fire Managers and Scientists, Pennsylvania Prescribed Fire Council.
The theme of this conference will be “Laying Out a Restoration Road Map”. The...
Transforming Approaches to Forests and Forestry through Traditional and Local Knowledges Conference
August 21, 2019 (All day) to August 23, 2019 (All day)
Through this event, organizers welcome knowledge holders to share their experiences in building equitable relationships within customary territories.
They hope to provide a point of convergence for Indigenous, Local and Western Knowledges to...
3rd Annual National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy Workshop
Hotel 1620 Harbor
October 21, 2019 (All day) to October 24, 2019 (All day)
The International Association of Wildland Fire is presenting this workshop in partnership with the Wildland Fire Leadership Council (WFLC) and the Western, Southeast and Northeast Regional Strategy Committees.
8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress
Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
November 18, 2019 12:00 am PST to November 22, 2019 11:00 pm PST
Join the Association for Fire Ecology and the Southwest Fire Science Consortium for the 8th International Fire Ecology and Management Congress. The Congress will expand the ecological concept of pyrodiversity to explore interconnectedness among a...
National Wildland Fire Conference
Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa
May 3, 2019 12:00 am PDT to May 5, 2019 11:00 pm PDT
This conference was the brainchild of renowned plaintiff attorney Ken Roye. Ken's vision was to create a neutral and informative forum for lawyers, experts and others to share their experiences and collaborate in improving how justice is done in...
6th International Fire Behavior and Fuels Conference
Albuquerque, NM; Marseille France, and Sydney, Australia
April 29, 2019 12:00 am PDT to May 3, 2019 11:00 pm PDT
The conference theme is "Fuels of Today - Fire Behavior of Tomorrow" Understanding Fire Behavior and Fuels for Sound Decision Making and Effective Management
This conference will provide government and nongovernment professionals at all levels a...
Webinar - Using the WiRē Approach to Better Understand WUI Residents’ Relationships with Wildfire: Variation within and across Communities
April 4, 2019 12:00 pm to 1:00 pm PDT
The WiRē (Wildfire Research) Team has worked with many communities to help them better understand their residents' relationships with wildfire risk. Here, we will describe unique aspects of the WiRē approach, and present results from our recent paper...
Webinar - Fire Science Literacy: How to better understand and communicate the wildland fire environment
February 19, 2019 2:00 pm to 3:00 pm PST
The wildland fire environment is complex, with fire behavior and fire effects depending on interactions between fuels, management history, and weather patterns beginning days and weeks before a burn. Thus it can be difficult to extrapolate results or...
Fifth Annual Burning Issues Workshop and Michigan Prescribed Fire Council Annual Meeting: Decision-making for Fire-dependent Systems
Fort Custer National Training Center (FCTC)
February 5, 2019 (All day) to February 6, 2019 (All day)
This annual wildland fire workshop is designed to enable land managers, researchers, resource specialists, biologists, ecologists and fire practitioners an opportunity to hear and learn from different areas of expertise in a format designed to identify...
Webinar - Landowner Attitudes toward Prescribed Fire on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest
December 12, 2018 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST
Sponsored by: Lake States Fire Science Consortium
Presented by: Kristin Floress, Research Social Scientist, USDA Forest Service, People & Their Environments...
15th Wildland Fire Safety Summit/5th Human Dimensions Conference
Renaissance Asheville Hotel
December 10, 2018 12:00 am PST to December 14, 2018 11:00 pm PST
The theme of this years event is Rethinking the Global Wildfire Problem: Are we focusing on the right problems and right solutions?
NRS 501 Seminar Series - Social-Ecological Systems: US Wildfire Policy as Socio-Ecological Problem
University of Idaho - CNR Building, Room 10
November 15, 2018 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm PST
Presented by: Dr. Toddi Steelman, Stanback Dean of the Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University
Exploring Temporal Phases of Wildfire Adaption: Experiences across Socially Diverse Communities
November 9, 2018 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm PST
Thesis Defense
University of Idaho, College of Natural Resources, Room 200
Catrin M. Edgeley, Ph.D. Candidate, Natural Resources
Major Professor: Dr. Travis B. Paveglio
VIII International Conference on Forest Fire Research
Bissaya Barreto Events Center
November 9, 2018 12:00 am PST to November 16, 2018 11:00 pm PST
The Conference aims to provide an up to date on the developments in forest fire science and technology and an opportunity to meet persons and institutions, to promote international cooperation in this research and management area.
The scope of...