While most large-scale and catastrophic fires are in the western U.S., numerous communities east of the Mississippi are at high-risk of damage from wildfire. In Wisconsin, communities near the Lakewood-Laona District on the Chequamegon-Nicolet National...
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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 12:00 am PST to February 6, 2019 11:00 pm PST
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Hyatt Regency Lost Pines Resort and Spa
May 3, 2019 12:00 am PDT to May 5, 2019 11:00 pm PDT
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Loews Ventana Canyon Resort
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Person: Floress
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Wildfires, a key socio-environmental challenge in Mediterranean regions, are influenced by anthropogenic factors shaping land-use and socioeconomic spatial structures. By assuming that the dominant socioeconomic structure of local districts exerts a...
Person: Ferrara, Salvati, Corona, Romano, Marchi
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Social science offers rich descriptions of relationships between wildland–urban interface residents and wildfire, but syntheses across different contexts might gloss over important differences. We investigate the potential extent of such differences...
Person: Meldrum, Brenkert-Smith, Champ, Falk, Wilson, Barth
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
This article examines findings from a 2016 study on gender and leadership within the British Columbia Wildfire Service (BCWS), Canada. The study utilised action research to facilitate an in-depth conversation among wildland firefighters about gender...
Person: Reimer, Eriksen
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Participatory planning networks made of government agencies, stakeholders, citizens and scientists are receiving attention as a potential pathway to build resilient landscapes in the face of increased wildfire impacts due to suppression policies and...
Person: Otero, Castellnou, González, Arilla, Castell, Castellví, Sánchez
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Globally, environmental disasters impact billions of people and cost trillions of dollars in damage, and their impacts are often felt most acutely by minority and poor communities. Wildfires in the U.S. have similarly outsized impacts on vulnerable...
Person: Davies, Haugo, Robertson, Levin
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Researchers have always been interested in the impact of wildfires on the long-term resilience of wildfire survivors but there is little research on why some residents impacted by wildfires provide social support to others in their community directly...
Person: Phillips, Jimenez
Year: 2018
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Risk management typologies and their resulting archetypes can structure the many social and biophysical drivers of community wildfire risk into a set number of strategies to build community resilience. Existing typologies omit key factors that...
Person: Evers, Ager, Nielsen-Pincus, Palaiologou, Bunzel
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Today’s extended fire seasons and large fire footprints have prompted state and federal land-management agencies to devote increasingly large portions of their budgets to wildfire management. As fire costs continue to rise, timely and comprehensive...
Person: Toombs, Weber
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
While prescribed burning is a proven tool in the management of forests and grasslands, its use has been limited due, in part, to potential risks that may result in legal liability, property damage, and personal injury. The purpose of this study is to...
Person: Joshi, Poudyal, Weir, Fuhlendorf, Ochuodho
Year: 2019
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
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.
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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 12:00 am PST to February 6, 2019 11:00 pm PST
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...
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...
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...
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...
2018 National Disaster Resilience Conference
November 7, 2018 12:00 am PST to November 9, 2018 11:00 pm PST
The 2018 National Disaster Resilience Conference that will bring together the nation's foremost voices in the disaster safety and resilience movement on November 7-9 in Clearwater Beach, FL. Keynote presentations, discussion panels, and spotlight...
9th International Workshop on Air Quality Forecasting Research (IWAQFR)
Embassy Suites by Hilton Boulder
November 7, 2018 12:00 am PST to November 9, 2018 11:00 pm PST
The purpose of the International Workshops on Air Quality Forecasting Research is to provide a forum to discuss science issues and research advancements related to air quality forecasting. The objectives of these workshops include improving operational...
Webinar - Fireworks: Integration of Wildfire Science into K-12 Education
October 30, 2018 3:30 pm to 4:30 pm PDT
This free webinar will be a tool for integrating fire science into education programs.
Webinar - Co-managing Wildfire: Conversations you need to Have Right Now
October 25, 2018 1:30 pm to 3:00 pm PDT
Sponsored by the Great Plains Fire Science Exchange
Branda Nowell, Associate Professor, Ph.D. Michigan State University, is an organizational-community psychologist specializing in inter-organizational relationships, social networks, and...
Law, Planning and Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: The Future of Government and Governance of Disaster in the West
Lincoln Auditorium
October 19, 2018 12:00 am to 11:00 pm PDT
The Idaho Law Review invites proposals for presentations and papers for its symposium, "Law, Planning and Wildfire in the Wildland-Urban Interface: The Future of Government and Governance of Disaster in the West."
In 1995, fire suppression made...