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The SCIENCEx webinar series brings together scientists and land management experts from across U.S. Forest Service research stations and beyond to explore the latest science and best practices for addressing large natural resource challenges across…
Year: 2023
Type: Media
KC, Rupert, Painter, Muller
Wildfires in the United States have become more catastrophic and expensive in recent years, with the U.S. Department of the Interior and the Forest Service nearly doubling their combined spending on wildfire management in the past decade. As more…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Stonesifer
Part of the Science You Can Use Spring 2022 Webinar Series sponsored by the Rocky Mountain Research Station
Aircraft are important fire management tools, but their use can bring substantial costs and associated risks. We developed the Aviation Use…
Year: 2022
Type: Media
Hunter
Prescribed fire can result in significant benefits to ecosystems and society. Examples include improved wildlife habitat, enhanced biodiversity, reduced threat of destructive wildfire, and enhanced ecosystem resilience. Prescribed fire can also come…
Year: 2021
Type: Media
Faivre, Amoako, Bird, Conedera
Sparking FireSmart Policies in the EU: The Importance of an Integrated Fire Management Approach - Nicolas Faivre, Policy Officer, DG Research and Innovation (RTD), European Commission, Belgium
The presentation will introduce the recent EU policy…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Zhuang, Rose
Prescribed fires are often used as part of a strategy for protecting forests from catastrophic wildfires. Based on agency reports, from 2003-2017 prescribed burns have been used on more than 40 million acres across the US. In this study, the…
Year: 2020
Type: Media
Two researchers discuss findings from studies on how wildfires affect local economies across the U.S. west, from onset to recovery and beyond.
Year: 2019
Type: Media
Toombs, Weber
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…
Year: 2018
Type: Media
Rideout
Doug Rideout discusses STARfire - a spatial planning and budgeting system integrating fuels, preparedness, and risk assessment guided by ROI. Scaleable from planning unit to regional to national levels.
Year: 2017
Type: Media
West, Legarza, Jolly, Emanuel, Knight
Join us in a discussion on how climatic changes can influence wildland fire activity across the globe and how these critical fire weather variables have changed over the last 40 years. These changes in key weather variables have combined to both…
Year: 2017
Type: Media