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Increasing Post-Wildfire Planted Seedling Survival
Marsh
Across the southwestern United States, high-severity wildfire is resulting in increasingly large areas of tree mortality, removing the seed sources required for natural regeneration of historically conifer-dominated landscapes. Planting tree…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Fire in the Southwest, Past and Present – Fire Season 2022 Overview and 2023 Outlook
Evans, Maxwell
The SWFSC offers a webinar reviewing wildfires of 2022 and looking ahead toward fire conditions for the 2023 season. Dr. Zander Evans presents an overview of the 10 largest fires in the Southwest during 2022. He will share summaries of forest types…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

Landscape Fuel Treatment Effectiveness
Jain, Hood, McKinney, Ott, Urza
Maximizing the effectiveness of fuel treatments at the landscape scale is a key research and management need given the inability to treat all areas at risk from wildfire, and there is a growing body of scientific literature assessing this need.…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

NWCG Smoke Committee WRAP Fire and Smoke Working Group Combined Call - May 2023
This is a combined call for the NWCG Smoke Managers Sub-Committee and the WRAP Fire and Smoke Working Group. The intent of this occasional call series is to discuss operational smoke management issues and build understanding between the air…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

A West-Wide Rangeland Fuel Assessment: Reading the Tea Leaves
Reeves
In this monthly recorded series, Dr. Matt Reeves, an RMRS Research Ecologist specializing in remote sensing and ecological modeling, analyzes current rangeland fuel conditions across the west, with emphasis on emerging hotspots. Projections are…
Year: 2023
Type: Media

More Fire, More People, Less Water: Exploring Wildfire Risks to Water Security in a Changing World
Robinne
Learn about: how forests contribute to water security; how fire, forests, and humans interact to impact water security; what is the state of wildfire-watershed risk research in Canada; and, what are the tools, methods, and data available to advance…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Mission Critical Teams: Reflection, Reset, and Residue in Wildland Fire Management
Cline
Dr. Cline presents a way to resolve complex adaptive problems in an immersive, but constrained (five minutes or less), temporal environments, where the consequence of failure can be critical.
Year: 2022
Type: Media

The Right Seedling for Reforestation: Success, Partners, and Policy
Crotteau, Dixit, Richardson, Calabaza, Souther, Dumroese
Land-manager-focused series of LIGHTNING TALKS during this webinar dedicated to forest regeneration, climate change, and Indigenous knowledge exchange in the West. Short science presentations will highlight how climate impacts different genotypes…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Increases in Large Wildfire Driven Nighttime Fire Activity Observed across the Conterminous United States
Freeborn
Wildfire activity typically subsides sufficiently enough at night to provide firefighters with opportunities to rest and recover. However, nighttime fire operations are not uncommon. Whilst favorable conditions may enable better fire management…
Year: 2022
Type: Media

Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Public Release
Allen, Lowry, Adetona, Holder, Rosario-Ortiz, Turpin
Join project staff and members of the committee for a public release webinar about the new report, The Chemistry of Fires at the Wildland-Urban Interface on Tuesday, September 20th from 3:00PM to 4:00PM EDT. The committee will share information…
Year: 2022
Type: Media